DAEJEON, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Bangladesh, in its recent effort to develop nuclear technology to overcome the country’s lack of natural resources, will be visiting South Korea for technological cooperation. The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) will be holding a technological assistance workshop at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) from February 18 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spend 2.93 trillion won (US$2.61 billion) this year to develop new bio technology, as part of efforts to become the leading industrial hub, the government said Monday The 2019 biotech support budget, which received a 2.9 percent increase from a year earlier, aims to develop critical [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biologists have discovered bacteria with outstanding capabilities to biodegrade endocrine-disrupting chemicals known to obstruct the excretion of hormones in the human body. The Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources announced on Monday that it has discovered bacteria that can biodegrade phthalate, an endocrine disruptor. Newly named as [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Pollack, one of the most common white fish, has been found to play an important role as a health supplement. According to the Korea Overseas Fisheries Association on Monday, such results were published by Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. in November 2017. It was found that the protein content of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The year of 2019 is the year of the golden pig, which symbolizes wealth and good wishes. Pigs have been one of the most important animals to be raised by human beings. They are one of the major sources of protein, as well as a symbol of prosperity and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first indigenous geostationary weather satellite, the Chollian-2A, has successfully provided its first image from orbit, the government said Tuesday. The multipurpose satellite, also known as GEO-KOMPSAT-2A, was launched from Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guinea, aboard a launch vehicle made by Arianespace on Dec. 5. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted an artificial rain experiment over the Yellow Sea on Friday to analyze the method’s effect on reducing fine dust pollution. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and the Ministry of Environment said that their research institutes jointly began the rare experiment over the sea off the nation’s [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — According to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) on Monday, mProbe will be signing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for commercializing technologies at the KISTI headquarters in Daejeon on January 22. Stanford University Investment Company, also known as mProbe, was established in 2016 based [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will invest 37.5 billion won (US$33.6 million) this year in developing converging technologies in the fields of robotics, biology and artificial intelligence (AI), the government said Sunday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it has finalized the scale of various projects to secure core technologies that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A stress-measuring sensor that could be inserted into the human body to measure stress in real-time has been created by a South Korean research team. The Korea Research Foundation announced on Tuesday that a joint research team led by Prof. Kim Tae-il from Sungkyunkwan University and Prof. Choi Young-jin [...]