SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, on Thursday rolled out the industry’s first removable data storage card that is five times faster than that of the conventional micro SD card. The Universal Flash Storage (UFS) card with 250 gigabytes (GB) of storage can be used in [...]
ULSAN, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Walking through a rain storm is not a pleasant experience. Not only do you need to hold tight to the safe haven that is your umbrella, you also need to continuously adjust how you hold it to maximize protection against changing winds that gust from all directions. With this [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (SKT), Korea’s leading network operator, launched a nationwide Internet of Things network Monday that uses its LoRa (long-range) network exclusive to IoT communications. This is the first time for a country to establish an IoT-exclusive nationwide network with a single control center. With the new system, a wide [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is all set to provide the world with high-resolution commercial satellite imagery from its new satellite, a government ministry said Monday. The Korea Multipurpose Satellite-3A (KOMSAT-3A), also known as the Arirang-3A, was put into orbit in March last year as part of South Korea’s efforts to emerge [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the United States and Japan, Korea has become the third country to successfully produce an ‘x-ray free-electron laser’ (XFEL), often referred to as the “dream light”. According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Pohang Accelerator Laboratory has succeeded [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of South Korean researchers has developed a new type of graphene for lithium-ion batteries that can be recharged at a faster rate than conventional ones with no risk of reduced capacity, they said Monday. Conventional graphene is a two-dimensional atom-thin sheet of carbon that is commonly produced [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently published a report that identified South Korea as having the lowest percentage of jobs at risk of being replaced by robots. The report ‘The Risk of Automation for Jobs in OECD Countries’, released by the OECD on May 30, used the database [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea, aiming to become the hub of Asia’s financial technology (fintech) sector, signed a memorandum of understanding with France on Monday. The agreement included sharing related information and supporting each other’s fintech firms. A partnership with France, a core player in the eurozone economy, is seen as offering [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Robot-assisted surgery has been attracting much attention, particularly for its strikingly high cost. Catherine Mohr, the vice president of medical research at Intuitive Surgical, defended robot-assisted surgery in a lecture titled ‘Surgery’s Past, Present, and Robotic Future’ at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul, in which she explained, “Any new state-of-the-art [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of clothing products are combining fashion and technology, part of a new trend called ‘fashionology’, using materials such as cooling fibers used in spacesuits, or those emitting far-infrared radiation. T-shirts that use such new materials are becoming popular, especially for outdoor brands. Cool 360, developed by [...]