DAEJEON, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has developed a medical device that can check if a patient is infected with viruses such as MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) or Ebola within an hour. The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) announced that a research team led by Doctor Kwon Oh-won of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Funding of 32.7 billion won will be offered by the government to develop core technology in the bio, metallic material and chemical processing fields. The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) announced that it will support new projects together with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemicals and battery maker, said Sunday that it has signed a deal to supply lithium-ion (EV) batteries to golf carts made by Japan’s Yamaha Motors Company. Under the contract, LG Chem will supply Yamaha Motors with lithium-ion batteries for its golf carts starting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Wednesday it has agreed to cooperate with Samsung Electro-Mechanics on a power-efficient network technology utilized for Internet of Things (IoT) products. Under the deal, SK Telecom and Samsung will develop the Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) technology, which allows long-range communication with less energy [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Graduates of a prestigious university in China are making headlines by producing jianbing, one of the most famous street foods in China, using 3D printers. According to The Beijing News, the elites from Tsinghua University set up a jianbing manufacturing company that uses 3D printing technologies. Shi Kanyue and Wu [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A smart farming town sponsored by SK Group is gaining attention from high ranking officials in Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam and Thailand. According to the Sejong Creative Economy Center, South Asian delegates visited the state-of-the-art “smart farms” which combine agriculture and ICT, and considered the possibility of incorporating the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) -- The future is here. While window shopping, customers can get information about a product displayed on the other side of a transparent OLED “window”. Customers can also try on outfits through virtual reality, and see how they would look from all directions. Samsung Electronics will reveal new products using [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung SDI Co., the battery-making unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, said Thursday it will work with Audi AG to produce the power pack for the German automaker’s new electric-powered sport utility vehicle (SUV), as it moves to expand into the automotive business. The two companies have signed a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics has won a patent for hologram technology that works on smartphones, the U.S. patent office said Thursday, which may mark another significant progress in the development of mobile devices. Samsung applied for the patent, dubbed “mobile device capable of displaying hologram and hologram [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has set a concrete strategy for technology development related to drones and autonomous vehicles, and will implement the plans by next year. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced that it held a meeting on August 9 where high officials of nine central government [...]