SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Wednesday it was collaborating with the Seungil Hope Foundation to virtually recover the voices of eight Lou Gehrig’s disease patients and store them in a mobile app, “MaumTalk,” developed for the patients free of charge. Seungil Hope Foundation is a [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea’s top-ranked science and technology university, said Wednesday it had succeeded in realizing a white light-emitting OLED on a fiber thinner than a hair. It has been difficult to develop white OLEDs, that are necessary for full color display [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., the auto parts making unit of Hyundai Motor Group, said Monday that its in-house brainwave-based driver monitoring system can reduce the risk of drowsy driving by up to one-third. The system, called M.Brain, is a wearable earset that monitors and analyzes drivers’ brain signals in real [...]
DAEJEON, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly developed bone-replica chip will be able to verify the effects of new drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis without engaging in reckless animal experiments. A research team from the Korea Basic Science Institute said Thursday it has developed a chip that embodies the various structural and biological [...]
DAEJEON, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an innovative polymer thin film that can prevent bacteria from adhering to medical products or daily necessities while remaining harmless to humans. A joint research team from the National Nanofab Center and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology announced Thursday it succeeded [...]
GWANGJU, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Photonics Technology Institute announced that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based situation recognition solution that can monitor dangerous criminal and emergency situations using the sounds generated in CCTV blind spots. The technology was developed to sense all kinds of sounds, including the ones mixed in a [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to launch its first homegrown spy satellite in 2023 atop a rocket from U.S. commercial space firm SpaceX under a project to place five such satellites into orbit by 2025, Seoul officials said Sunday. The state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Agency for Defense Development have [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is seeking to conduct a full-fledged solid-fuel space rocket launch in 2025, a government researcher said Monday, following its major performance test last week. The country is aiming to launch the rocket to place a 500-kilogram experimental satellite into a low Earth orbit at an altitude of [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Thursday that it has developed a highly efficient electrochemical system that produces eco-friendly ammonia using nitric oxide. Emissions of nitric oxide are strictly regulated since it not only causes respiratory diseases but also produces ozone in the atmosphere. Selective [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and ICT unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, said Wednesday it has invested US$11 million in a U.S. flat panel satellite antenna developer, as it advances its push for space communications technologies. The latest funding for Kymeta Corp., located in the Washington state, [...]