SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry on Tuesday kicked off what it calls the alchemist project, which centers on supporting complicated research and development projects, even those that have little chance of success, to eventually secure core technologies. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the project takes cues from [...]
POHANG, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new device that can maximize the efficiency of solar power generation even on cloudy or rainy days. The researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology, the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials and Kyung Hee University developed a new technology [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is seeking to team up with the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to pin down the sources of Korea’s high fine dust air pollution levels, a government agency said Sunday. The National Institute of Environmental Research, a research body under the Ministry of Environment, [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Because the nerves are spread all over the body, humans can sense pain and stay healthy by receiving treatment before the symptoms worsen. A South Korean research team has developed a fundamental technology that detects minute changes such as vibration and deformation on its own and diagnoses the safety [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team at Seoul National University (SNU) combined technology with a traditional Korean toilet ‘haeuso’ to develop an eco-friendly restroom. Prof. Han Moo-young and his research team at SNU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering designed the Tori restroom, which automatically recycles human waste into fertilizer without requiring [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that blue light can help people wake up more easily in the morning. A research team led by Prof. Seok Hyun-jung and Prof. Choi Kyung-ah from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said on Wednesday that a light in the color [...]
JINJU, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services (GNARES) announced on Tuesday that had developed a low-cost food source to reduce the production cost of larvae of Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis, an edible insect, and had started to increase the competitiveness of farming the larvae by supplying the low-cost food to farmers. [...]
DEAJEON, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that humans are just as capable as other animals of finding north without a compass. The National Research Foundation of Korea in Daejeon announced on Sunday that a research team led by Prof. Chae Kwon-seok from Kyungpook National University confirmed that humans also have [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run agricultural watchdog said Monday it has applied a new DNA analysis technology that can be used to distinguish locally-produced goat meat from imported goods. The National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (NAQS) the technology can be used to uncover goat-meat products which fabricated their countries of [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS) in Daejeon will be creating a new medical mathematics center to conduct research that can raise the success rate of designing effective treatment plans based on precise medical information. Medical mathematics takes into account mathematical explanations and modeling theories to solve various [...]