SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Hospitals are often a child’s worst nightmare, but some recent developments might make them more inviting places. A total of 14 teams participated in the Seoul City Health Care Make-A-Thon, which took place on May 21 to 22, where 70 contestants from 15-year-old students to doctors and nurses came [...]
DAEJEON, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – You might want to try soju (Korean rice wine) to wash your vegetables next time. A recent experiment unveiled soju’s unexpected ability to wash off germs and bacteria from produce like lettuce. The research was conducted by the Daejeon Institute of Health and Environment, and various produce cleaning products were [...]
ULSAN, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) revealed its ‘Smart Urban Vehicle Project’ Thursday, part of efforts to develop an electric vehicle (EV) better suited for urban environments. The project, in coordination with Power Plaza – an EV manufacturer, aims to create a smaller and a lighter [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The defense ministry announced on Tuesday a set of anti-smoking campaigns aimed at bringing down the smoking rate of soldiers to the 30 percent level by 2020 from 40 percent at present. The ministry devised the incentives to encourage soldiers to quit smoking on the occasion of World No [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government opened its first career support café in a bustling university neighborhood on Monday with young adults scrambling to secure favorable employment in a continuously tough job market. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it equipped the café, located near Hongik University in western Seoul, with seminar rooms, [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea announced an ambitious brain-mapping project Monday, saying it would catch up with the U.S., Japan and other advanced nations in the brain science field within the next decade. The government will create a “specialized atlas” of the brain focusing on the structure and function of the parietal [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A ‘walking delivery service’ in which elderly individuals buy products themselves and then deliver them to their destination via metro trains and buses has recently been gaining popularity. The ‘walking delivery service’, which began in 2006 in Songpa-gu, Seoul, tallied over 10,000 deliveries last year – a whopping 25 [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The next time you have a hangover, you might want to try a new Korean treat called a Gyeondo-bar. Gyeondyo-bars are the latest hangover cure in the Korean market, developed by WithMe, a convenience store franchise owned by Korean retail giant Shinsegae. The name of the new bar is derived [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of clothing products are combining fashion and technology, part of a new trend called ‘fashionology’, using materials such as cooling fibers used in spacesuits, or those emitting far-infrared radiation. T-shirts that use such new materials are becoming popular, especially for outdoor brands. Cool 360, developed by [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Department Store is implementing what it calls a ‘Virtual Fitting Service’ for customers to try on clothes virtually, without having to physically put them on. The service uses a special mirror that provides a virtual reflection of the customer wearing the clothing by applying a 3D image of [...]