SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin providing a real-time air quality map for the Korean Peninsula and neighboring areas to the public, utilizing data sent from Chollian-2B, its environmental satellite launched last year, the science ministry said Sunday. The new service, available from Monday, will provide data of seven types of [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The launch of South Korea’s next-generation midsized observation satellite, slated for Saturday afternoon at a space center in Kazakhstan, has been postponed, government officials here said. The 540-kilogram satellite, loaded on Russia’s Soyuz 2.1a, was scheduled to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:07 p.m. (11:07 [...]
DAEJEON, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) said Thursday that it had developed new technology that can quantitatively measure the degree of virtual reality (VR) sickness. Thus far, VR sickness has to be evaluated subjectively through questionnaires. However, the research team succeeded in [...]
DAEJEON, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean state-run research organization has joined hands with a private company to push for the localization of a core fuel cell component for which the country has relied entirely on imports until now. On Tuesday, the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology signed a technology transfer agreement with [...]
POHANG, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A new-concept in-body drug delivery system has been developed in which a body-implanted medical device automatically injects drugs when it is exposed to light energy. A research team from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) said that it had developed an automatic control-type in-body drug delivery system [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully conducted the second combustion test for the first-stage engines of its locally built space launch vehicle, pushing forward for a launch set for October this year, the science ministry said Thursday. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), which leads the project’s development, ran the 100-second combustion [...]
POHANG, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an electronic skin that is more sensitive than human touch, and is capable of distinguishing between different materials. A joint research team from the Pohang University of Science and Technology and the University of Ulsan announced on Tuesday that it had succeeded in developing [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A recently published study from South Korea has revealed the optimum conditions to raise productivity of chemical engineering using artificial intelligence (AI). A research team from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology conducted an AI-based virtual experiment to demonstrate a more productive way to change methane, a greenhouse [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based, ultra-sensitive voice recognition sensor by imitating the structure of the human ear. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced Monday that they had developed a voice recognition sensor designed after a human cochlea, [...]
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 [...]