SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Monday it will invest 615 billion won (US$549 million) in space projects this year, including launching its long-awaited first homegrown rocket and developing new satellites. The country plans to launch its first locally built Nuri rocket in October this year, committing 189.7 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Polar Research Institute introduced Tuesday a new technology that uses a unique reaction caused by ice to eradicate toxins and retrieve useful substances. The institute, along with Hallym University and the California Institute of Technology, discovered that a frozen solution of chrome and iodine suppresses chrome’s toxicity [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will invest 45 billion won (US$41 million) in the next five years to develop next-generation technologies to track and monitor space objects, a state-run research center said Wednesday. The new laser-based technologies are aimed at better monitoring objects that fly over the Korean Peninsula amid an increase [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers embarking on a joint project to develop a flying taxi. The state-run Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology signed an agreement with local recreational boats manufacturer Angelux on Thursday to develop and commercialize urban air mobility (UAM) air taxis. The institute plans to transfer five [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has developed a new technology that produces amines, chemical substances used in various industries, using biotechnology instead of petrochemical processing. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced Monday a new technology that creates strains of Escherichai colis, which can produce [...]
CHEONAN, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean public institute has developed new technology that can preemptively prevent massive fires by sensing and cooling the electric arc that can be generated at large-capacity energy storage systems (ESS). The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology announced on Wednesday that it had developed a new system that can [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday it has started manufacturing a space telescope in a joint project with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Ministry of Science and ICT said NASA has approved the preliminary design for the Spectro-Photometer [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of South Korea’s space industry stood at 3.89 trillion won (US$3.5 billion) last year, a report showed Tuesday. The industry’s size slightly dipped from that of 2018, when it reached 3.93 trillion won, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Science and ICT. The science ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it decided to delay the launch of its first locally built space launch vehicle by eight months due to complications in its assembly. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it pushed back the launch of the three-stage rocket with a mock payload from February [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A high-definition optical satellite will be used from next year to detect styrofoam waste, the main culprit behind the pollution of the marine environment on uninhabited islands, a state-run research institute said Sunday. South Korea has about 2,800 uninhabited islands. It has been difficult to get a grasp of [...]