SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Telemedicine refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology such as smartphones to provide healthcare from a distance. The idea is to free medical practitioners bound by time and place, and make medical services more accessible to patients. The government, namely the ruling Saenuri Party, has been spearheading [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, a total of 340 patent applications related to agricultural technology that improves a crop’s resistibility to environmental stress have been submitted since 2005. Since 2010, at least 30 patents were filed each year, 87 percent of which were by domestic applicants. KIPO [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom’s NUGU is a cylindrical-shaped speaker/lamp that is capable of providing various services including music recommendations and playback, smart home services (for smart homes and smart-compatible electronics), and other assistant services like weather information, alarm, and schedule notifications. According to industry sources, daily sales of NUGU have almost [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea has seen an increasing number of patents targeting the rapidly growing market for biometrics, driven by an increasing supply of smartphones and wearable devices, and the expansion of IoT-based services. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the annual number of patent applications related to biometric technology more [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and France will invest a combined 3 billion won (US$2.65 million) in the coming three years to develop self-driving technology, the trade minister here said Wednesday. In a Seoul forum, the two sides agreed on the project to jointly study traffic jam assistant (TJA) technology, which helps [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The founder of Naver Corp. said Monday the nation’s biggest Internet portal will accelerate its investment in high-tech startups, signaling the need to increase spending on artificial intelligence. Lee Hae-jin, who is also the chairman of the board at Naver, made the remarks at a conference with developers. “From [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Gachon University Gil Hospital gained widespread media attention when it announced last month that it would introduce IBM’s Watson for Oncology, an AI-based super computer, for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The system was due to launch mid-October amid high industry expectations, until news broke out early Friday morning that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Rural Development Administration announced Wednesday the development of a new Bio 3D Silk-Printing System, which allows for the use of silk (protein) as a 3D printing material for medical equipment. The system was developed jointly by the RDA and Hallym University. Silk is a natural protein fiber obtained [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced Tuesday the development of what is tentatively being called a “Subsonic Capsule Train” that can travel at a speed of Mach 0.8 (987.84km/h). Once commercialized, it would allow 30-minute travel between Seoul and Busan (325km) on a maglev train through [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced Tuesday that it has developed a super-speed data transfer technology called Zing, that will allow high-bandwidth transmission of data within a distance of 10 centimeters, without the need of Internet connectivity. According to ETRI, Zing is an IoT communications technology that [...]