SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to develop new communications technology for drones that will extend their flight altitude to up to 20,000 meters. Currently, issues with communication limit drone flights to altitudes below 1,000 meters. The Ministry of Science and ICT said Thursday that it will initiate the development of a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday that it plans to make a second attempt to launch its homegrown space rocket in mid-June, about eight months after its first flight ended in failure due to technical glitches. The Nuri rocket will be lifted off on June 15, about one month later than [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest 12 billion won (US$10 million) in developing high-performance, liquid-fuel engines by next year to ramp up the country’s decadelong space project, the ICT and science ministry said Tuesday. In 2020, South Korea unveiled the “Space Challenge” program with the aim of investing 49.6 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military is seeking to create a new training program to counter potential hazards from space debris as part of broader efforts to enhance its space security capabilities, a Seoul official said Monday. The move comes amid growing calls for the military to craft a set of measures [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Patents related to logistic robots are on the rise, a South Korean patent office said Thursday. The Korean Intellectual Property Office reported that a total of 234 patents were registered between 2016 and 2020 in relation to logistics robot technology. Each year, the rate of registration rose by an [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology has been developed to effectively filter fine dust in the white smoke emitted from thermoelectric power plants and waste incinerating facilities. The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials said Wednesday that it had developed a system that filters contaminants in the smoke through simultaneous cooling and absorption [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology said Monday that a research team had developed a portable ‘electronic nose’ that can check whether meat has spoiled in real-time. The electronic nose can even detect a tiny amount of cadaverine and putrescine, which generate bad odors caused by meat [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a protein absorbent that can collect rare earth elements from steel slag, an industrial by-product. The National Research Foundation of Korea said Tuesday that researchers at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology had integrated two different types of proteins, one that [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An astronomy project to explore the universe by connecting 22 radio telescopes in East Asia will be expanded. The National Geographic Information Institute (NGII) said Wednesday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the East Asian VLBI joint operation and technical cooperation with seven astronomical institutions [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A state-run railway research body has developed new technology that can reduce both the noise and fine dust generated around railroad and subway tracks. The Korea Railroad Research Institute said Monday that it had developed a ‘noise reduction-type fanless dust collector.’ With a minimal thickness, the fanless dust collector [...]