SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed new technology that allows for the production of electricity and salt using solar panels. The state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on Thursday that a consortium including the Green Energy Institute had developed a 100 kilowatt (kW) salt-producing solar panel system. These [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Daegu plans to use so-called ‘untact’ (contactless) means to hold a half-marathon race. Daegu’s Dalseo District announced Thursday that it will hold the Untact Dalseo Half-Marathon Contest from Sept. 27 to Oct. 17. With an annual festival held every September, race organizers needed to come up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Convenience store franchise 7-Eleven will offer a service where customers can borrow cell phone batteries at any of the 700 stores in the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area. By accessing Kokiri Box 2, a shared cell phone battery platform, customers can borrow cell phone batteries at a 7-Eleven store. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Thursday that subscription to its mobile services will be possible using a PASS Mobile Driver’s License instead of a physical ID card. The PASS Mobile Driver’s License is an app-based service that enables users to register their driver’s license in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based model that can predict the number of foreign COVID-19 cases entering the country. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology announced on Wednesday that it had developed a new AI model that was capable [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A new camera has been developed to indicate the location of people who cough or sneeze as an image by recognizing the sound of coughing on a real-time basis, the South Korea’s top engineering and technology university said Monday. The camera is expected to contribute to preventing the spread [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Surrounded by a stream, a mountain and a bustling street market, Hongeun-dong appears like most Seoul neighborhoods, if not for a mammoth building with an obsolete ivory-colored facade. Measuring 220 meters in length and 44 meters in width, Yujin Sangga remains one of the city’s biggest buildings 50 years [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Highway idle spaces, including the green spaces around interchanges and junctions as well as abandoned roads, will be used as locations for the establishment of logistics facilities, the transport ministry said Wednesday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the state-run Korea Expressway Corp. will expand logistics infrastructure [...]
JINJU, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple pomace, normally thrown away as waste or used as animal feed due to a lack of recycling technology, will now be used in cosmetics products. Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research & Extension Services (ARES) announced Tuesday that it has transferred a newly developed technology that uses apple pomace to make [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent smartphone app upgrade means that passengers won’t have to struggle over people refusing to wear masks on subway trains in Seoul. Starting on Aug. 3, Seoul will add a new function to Seoul Metro’s smartphone app that will enable passengers to report those who refuse to wear [...]