SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Holdings Co., the holding firm of South Korean energy and telecom conglomerate SK Group, said Thursday its artificial intelligence platform has successfully found the right cover letter in a flash, a technology that could ease the burden of human resources officials. Last year, Aibril Employment Helper evaluated 10,000 [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a dimethyl sulfide-based calibration gas, which is expected to be adopted by the World Meteorological Organization’s air monitoring network. The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) said on Tuesday that a research team led by senior researcher Lee Sang-ill has successfully created a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranked sixth in the number of clinical trials last year, up two places from 2016, a new study has found. Data provided by the U.S. government agency National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed that while South Korea ranked sixth, Seoul was named the city with the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean air conditioner manufacturers will begin selling new air conditioners this month, well ahead of summer, promoting models with artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, industry sources said Tuesday. IoT is a concept in which objects are connected to the Internet and identify themselves [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Friday that it has acquired a 10.12 percent stake in Robotis, a local robot maker, in the latest move to build its presence in the automation business. The South Korean consumer tech giant purchased about 9 billion won (US$8.4 million) worth of Robotis stock, after [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Friday it has opened the LG Kids Science Hall in the capital city of Iran in a bid to promote its brand in the Middle Eastern country. The South Korean tech giant said it hopes the science hall will provide local children and teenagers with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully conducted a key ion beam test, the government said Friday, confirming that the building of the rare isotope accelerator is moving forward on schedule. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced that it will complete the construction of the heavy ion linear accelerator complex located in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run information and communications promotion agency said Thursday local companies have filed the third-largest number of patents related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology over the past 12 years. The Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) said its finding is based on AI-related technologies applied to [...]
JEJU, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A coding event for children was successfully held on Jeju Island last weekend, signaling the provincial government’s resolve to prepare for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. According to the island’s provincial government on Thursday, the two-day long junior coding hackathon was held over the weekend under the theme of ‘producing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major game developers are expanding their workforces in artificial intelligence (AI) as they consider the technology as the future of the industry, company officials said Friday. The nation’s longtime online game giant Nexon Korea Co. said that it will expand a department dealing with core technologies [...]