DAEJEON, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — According to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) on Monday, mProbe will be signing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for commercializing technologies at the KISTI headquarters in Daejeon on January 22. Stanford University Investment Company, also known as mProbe, was established in 2016 based [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will invest 37.5 billion won (US$33.6 million) this year in developing converging technologies in the fields of robotics, biology and artificial intelligence (AI), the government said Sunday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it has finalized the scale of various projects to secure core technologies that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A stress-measuring sensor that could be inserted into the human body to measure stress in real-time has been created by a South Korean research team. The Korea Research Foundation announced on Tuesday that a joint research team led by Prof. Kim Tae-il from Sungkyunkwan University and Prof. Choi Young-jin [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it has opened a fine dust research center to find technological solutions to counter the environmental and health threats it poses. The company said the new center, operated by Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, will focus on carrying out research on fine dust particles. [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A big data analysis has showed that a select few can easily dominate public opinion. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) announced on Wednesday that it had verified the regularities surrounding the formation of collective intelligence by studying the development process of online encyclopedias, journals, and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Thursday it will work with information and communication technology companies to apply the 5G network in advanced production lines to create “smart factories.” A smart factory is a key concept in the fourth industrial revolution, and is based on an agile, automated manufacturing environment. [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have discovered a substance that could be used as a new malaria treatment in a rare native microorganism found on the East Sea island of Ulleung, a state-run research center said Thursday. The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) said its scientists found the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first indigenous geostationary weather satellite, the Chollian-2A, intended to enhance the country’s weather monitoring system, successfully made initial contact with a ground station after blasting off from a space center in French Guiana, the government in Seoul said Wednesday. The multipurpose satellite, also known as GEO-KOMPSAT-2A, lifted [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A small South Korean satellite designed to carry out space observation successfully reached its designated orbit after blasting off from an Air Force base in the United States, Seoul’s science ministry said Tuesday. The Next Sat-1, which lifted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at around [...]
GOHEUNG, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully tested its locally developed rocket engine on Wednesday, officials said, taking a step closer to the full-fledged development of the country’s first space launch vehicle. The test of the 75-ton thrust engine was conducted using a single-stage rocket that was launched from the Naro Space Center [...]