SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea unveiled Tuesday a fully assembled model of its homegrown space rocket for the first time since the country started its development in 2010 as it conducts final testing procedures before its launch later this year. South Korea has earmarked 2 trillion won (US$1.8 billion) to develop its [...]
BUSAN, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has succeeded in developing a portable electronic nose system that can sense the level of freshness of fruit at agricultural wholesale markets simply by smell. Pusan National University said Monday that researchers had developed a nano-bioelectronic nose system that can detect the level of [...]
DAEJEON, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists have developed a wireless electronic patch that can diagnose diseases by analyzing the chemical composition of an individual’s sweat, as well as the excretion rate, in real time. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and Sungkyunkwan University said [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry on Tuesday released observation images taken by the country’s next-generation midsized satellite launched earlier this year as the country expands its space program. The 540-kilogram satellite was launched into space on Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 22 to conduct [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean researchers have developed a soft robot that can maneuver underwater by fluttering like a leaf, and is capable of reaching set destinations. A researcher team from Seoul National University Department of Mechanical Engineering imitated leaves, paper, and other light and thin objects that create various movements without [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team is drawing attention after developing a suture thread-type measuring sensor that can be implanted in the body. A joint research team from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich announced on Monday the development of [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry unveiled Thursday its plan to observe and map the moon’s surface in 2023 in its first lunar orbiter mission. The spacecraft, set to be launched in August next year on U.S. commercial space firm SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, aims to reach lunar orbit toward the [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists are accelerating efforts to develop a visualization and machine learning technology-based platform aimed at greatly shortening the new material development period. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said Wednesday that it had developed a platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
DAEJEON, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have announced the development of a new device that can measure plastic particles in water that are only nanometers in size. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced Tuesday that they had developed optoelectronic tweezers that can capture small particles underwater and conduct [...]
DAEJEON, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a new technology that can detect food poisoning bacteria in real time using a semiconductor processing technology. The National Nanofab Center announced on Monday that it had developed technology to detect food poisoning bacteria using a nano structural body that was formed using the [...]