SEOUL, Jan.28 (Korea Bizwire) – A telemedicine system that has voice recognition features has been revealed for the first time in Korea. The system makes it easier for senior citizens to benefit from telemedicine, and has also achieved better results in treating diabetes compared to conventional treatment. The U-Healthcare team at the Seoul National University [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) -A sea shrimp farm has been dedicated in the middle of the Sahara Desert in northern Algeria with South Korean technology and capital, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Thursday. The Shrimp Cultivation Research Center has indoor and outdoor shrimp farms and several research and office buildings on a [...]
SEOUL, Jan.21 (Korea Bizwire) – User-created content uploaded to Facebook, YouTube and blogs will be increasingly featured on Naver’s search engine. Naver announced that it will apply a web collection method to gather information and provide the data in search results. Prior to the new service, users had to apply themselves to add their content [...]
SEOUL, Jan.20 (Korea Bizwire) – Technology that can be used to create a 3D map by simply walking around with a backpack has been developed by a Korean research team. Professor Do Rak-ju (40) and his team at Korea University’s Department of Electronic Engineering reported that they had succeeded in developing technology that records images [...]
SEOUL, Jan.13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs announced that it will make efforts to lower the possibility of privacy invasions. Whether we like it or not, what we do can be recorded on the black boxes of the many cars omnipresent on Korea’s busy streets. Sometimes, videos we did [...]
SEOUL, Jan.10 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors presented its Soul EV autonomous vehicle at CES 2016 (Consumer Electronics Show), the largest electronics exhibition in the world, which is currently being held in Las Vegas. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volkswagen, Ford and Toyota also presented partially autonomous vehicles or smart concept cars. However, the real competition is said [...]
SEJONG, Jan.7 (Korea Bizwire) – A bacteria that lowers the toxicity of arsenic has been discovered. Arsenic is a poisonous heavy metal that is generated when metal is manufactured, and the new bacteria is expected to be used in restoring polluted soil around smelters or closed mines. The National Institute of Biological Resources and professor [...]
SEOUL, Jan.4 (Korea Bizwire) – It has become possible to let people know about the release of one’s own book through the use of smartphones. Aladdin, the online book store, announced that it started an ‘Online Book Launching Party’ service so that a publisher can advertise their own book to friends and acquaintances. After registering [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has commenced the industry’s first mass-production of all-in-one bioprocessors that can be applied to various health care smart devices to collect users’ biological information. The Samsung Bio-Processor, also dubbed “S3FBP5A,” will be used to measure different health care information, such as body fat, [...]
DAEGU, Dec.23 (Korea Bizwire) – Officials from Gyeongbuk Province have announced the establishment of new research facility called the 3D Printing Manufacturing Innovation Hub Center in Geumo Techno Valley, Gumi, which is expected to start operations in February 2016. The local government built a four-storey building within the Geumo Techno Valley area after attracting support [...]