SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s No. 1 tech giant, said Saturday it plans to inject US$5 million into Brazil over the next five years to foster startups there, adding it will also share its business know-how. Under the agreement with the Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Business Incubators, an [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A new step in the development of Korea’s unmanned aerial vehicle technology has been reached with the introduction of a tilt-rotor drone that can take-off and land vertically like a helicopter, but is also capable of fast flight like an airplane. On April 10, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) introduced the [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) is set to accelerate development of telebiometrics security technology using bio-signals such as brainwaves and ECG, according to a statement on April 9. Bio-signals have been praised as a new means of authentication, as their complexity means that they cannot be forged [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have developed a super capacitor material which can charge electricity 10 times faster than existing batteries, and store twice as much as graphene-based materials. Professor Park Ho-seok of the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, announced that his team created the super capacitor material by making [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government is mobilizing resources to support the Korean graphene industry, in a push to be the first dominating force in the global market, announcing on April 6 that it would achieve sales of 19 trillion won (US$ 17.4 billion) and create 50,000 jobs by 2025. To establish a [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers opened a new door to recycling livestock blood from fallen farm animals, as the disposal of livestock blood into marine waters is no longer permitted under the 2013 Animal By-Products Regulations. The Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL) has developed a method of fabricating amino acid fertilizers from livestock [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have developed a method to uniformly disperse graphene particles in polymer composites using a solvent-free process, moving a step closer to the commercialization of graphene. According to a research team led by professor Kim Seong-lyun at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and professor Youn Jae-ryoun at [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have developed a dust-sized identifier, which could be seen as an ‘artificial fingerprint’, which cannot be duplicated but can be fine-tuned based on security strength. A team led by professor Kwon Sung-hoon at Seoul National University and professor Park Wook at Kyung Hee University said on March 24 that [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have developed a voice-to-text conversion technology that can automatically transcribe the voice of callers seamlessly to texts in Korean. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea (ETRI) announced on March 22 that it had successfully developed the Natural Language Recognition software. As financial institutions and other corporations [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver has opened an online video-clip encyclopedia composed of more than 20,000 clips, said the company on March 20. The video encyclopedia covers various subjects such as math, science, sociology, arts and medicine. The clips, sourced from Naver’s own digital archives and EBS, were scattered over the entire Naver platform [...]