SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has succeeded in developing a new biochar that can replace activated charcoal by recycling seaweed like kelp. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology said Tuesday its research team had developed a biochar (a compound word of biomass and charcoal) material that can adhere [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to embark on a civilian-military project next year to design a solid-fuel space launch vehicle under a broad initiative to develop the country’s space defense industry, the state arms procurement agency said Tuesday. At a policy forum, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) unveiled the initiative [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Brain, the artificial intelligence (AI) research subsidiary of South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp., is making inroads into the global market for AI in drug discovery. The company said Thursday that it had invested 5 billion won (US$4.21 million) in AI-based drug design platform startup Galux and established [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology developed by Korean researchers can 3D-scan a livestock pig to measure its weight. The Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, and Forestry said Wednesday that Illuvation, an ICT startup sponsored by the institute, has developed the said technology. Traditionally, pigs had to be [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of patent applications for non-contact biometric authentication technology based on human characteristics such as the face, iris and voice has surged in recent days. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the number of patent applications for non-contact biometric authentication technologies jumped to 792 in 2019, up [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Thursday that it had developed a high-precision distributed drone simulator to enable safe research on drones in virtual space. Existing simulators designed to test the motion of drones could not test many drones at the same time, while being limited to [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A new wireless network technology has been developed that uses the Internet to control brain neural circuits remotely. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Wednesday it had developed an internet-of-things (IoT)-based brain neural circuit remote control system in collaboration with research [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials said Thursday that it has developed a 5-kilowatt hydrogen fuel engine that can power heavy lift industrial drones. The newly-developed engine supplies hydrogen fuel using the direct spray method while optimizing engine parameters such as ignition and spray. The hydrogen engine has [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technology that can convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, a material used widely in industrial areas. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and Seoul National University said Sunday that it had developed a catalyst [...]
JEJU, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the launch of South Korea’s first homegrown space rocket Nuri, another challenge for space will be made on Jeju Island. Jeju’s provincial government said Tuesday that the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) will test the launch of a science observation rocket in Hangyeong-myeon township on [...]