WASHINGTON/SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first military communications satellite was successfully launched into space Monday, Seoul’s arms procurement agency said, making the country the world’s 10th to own a communications satellite for military purposes only. The Anasis-II satellite lifted off atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket manufactured by U.S commercial space [...]
DAEJEON, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a spider web robot that can capture objects in the same way as a spider does. The National Research Foundation of Korea announced on Thursday that a research team led by Sun Jung-yoon and Kim Ho-young, professors at Seoul National University, developed a spider [...]
DAEJEON, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s basic science institute announced on Wednesday that a research team have developed a thin and transparent thermal patch to cure acne. Thermal patches, in general, cure skin diseases such as acne and inflammation by applying heat to the skin to facilitate blood circulation and to reduce nerve [...]
GWANGJU, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A new technology has been developed in South Korea to supply power to implanted healthcare devices via a light-emitting diode (LED) patch that uses light as a medium for power supply. A research team led by Lee Jong-ho, professor of mechanical engineering at the Gwangju Institute of Science and [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to carry out a critical ignition test for the first-stage engine of its locally built space rocket later this year, a senior researcher at a state-run aerospace institute said Sunday. The process involves the clustering of four 75-ton thrust motors into the main stage rocket [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of researchers has developed a new insulator material that can lead to production of smaller and faster semiconductors, the science ministry said Thursday. The team from the state-run Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and foreign partners has created a [...]
DAEJEON, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A fast and accurate diagnostic kit for infectious diseases resembling “fidget spinner” has been released by a Korean research institute. A team of researchers at the Institute for Basic Science’s Center for Soft and Living Matter said Tuesday that they had developed a diagnostic kit that can reduce the [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea released the first images sent back by its environment monitoring satellite that clearly shows waters around the Korean Peninsula, the science ministry said Tuesday. The Chollian-2B, the country’s first geostationary satellite launched from French Guiana on Feb. 18 (local time) and now at a fixed orbit some [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s next-generation synchrotron radiation accelerator to be built in the central city of Cheongju will help the country bask in scientific and industrial advances, as well as create huge economic benefits, the science ministry said Friday. The city, 137 kilometers south of Seoul, has been tapped to host [...]
DAEJEON, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have developed a “touch pitch system” that allows hearing-impaired people to recognize sounds with touch. The new technology analyzes the pitch, which is the height of a sound from the surrounding environment, as well as voices, and converts it into a tactile pattern. Cochlear implant surgery has [...]