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, [...]
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 [...]