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SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday that a joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul National University and Stanford University in the U.S. had succeeded in developing an intelligent electronic skin. The types of electronic skin developed so far are inconvenient since they are large [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The usage rate of food delivery apps developed by municipal governments to reduce the burden on small businesses remains low despite lower commission fees compared to private delivery apps, a report said Thursday. According to a survey of about 3,000 dining businesses conducted by the Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corp. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, said Thursday it will give cash compensation to all small business owners for damage caused by the massive service disruption stemming from a fire at its data center. The fire at a building that houses Kakao’s data [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Thursday it will strengthen legal and administrative regulations to rein in excessive concentration of power in the local platform market led by tech giants Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. In a comprehensive plan by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Fair Trade Commission [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech companies are ready to showcase their latest products and innovative technologies at CES 2023, the world’s largest consumer electronics show slated to open in Las Vegas next week. CES will be held in a bigger and more fully in-person fashion this time, with global tech giants [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry has embarked on a project to recruit experts and conduct a technological analysis, eyeing the spillover effect caused by ChatGPT, a general-purpose chatbot prototype developed by U.S. research lab OpenAI. The ministry has reportedly been working with artificial intelligence (AI) experts to study the technological and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Science and Technology said Wednesday it has developed a new technology that can replace high-temperature, high-pressure energy used for the production of hydrogen peroxide with photovoltaic energy, thus improving overall productivity. Hydrogen peroxide is a core material used in chip production. However, a stable supply of hydrogen peroxide is uncertain due to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry on Wednesday said it has virtually recreated lost villages in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that existed prior to the 1950-1953 Korean War through a metaverse platform. Some 400 villages were known to have existed in the DMZ, among which the ministry picked the largest ones [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S.-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) remained the leading player in the South Korean market forcloud computing serviceslast year, the country’s antitrust regulator said Wednesday. AWS accounted for 62.1 percent of the local cloud service market in 2021, down from 70 percent tallied in 2020, according to the data compiled [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has successfully entered the orbit of the moon earlier than planned, the science ministry said Wednesday. Danuri, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, was captured by the moon’s gravity on Tuesday and began rotation, according to the Ministry of Science and [...]