SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Birth Credit Program offered by the National Pension Service (NPS) is benefitting an increasing number of people. The program offers a larger pension after retirement if a member gives birth to two or more children by adding extra hours to the duration of membership. The amount of pension [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a video technology that can monitor various inflammatory responses within the human body in real-time. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Seoul National University Medical School used Caspase-1, an enzyme activated in the initial [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed technology that prevents contamination of the surface of materials based on the concept of a stingray dusting off sand using its fin. A team of researchers from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and Pohang University of Science and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to introduce a new program to gather between three and five high schools in one area to run them as a single educational institution similar to a university. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) announced on Monday that it will begin testing the [...]
MUAN, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Edu Taxi” system, first introduced by the Jeollanamdo Office of Education, is expected to spread across the country. The education office in South Jeolla Province will introduce the current status of the Edu Taxi operation at a consultative meeting of city and provincial education office officials hosted by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A district in Seoul offered milk delivery as an idea to prevent solitary death among senior citizens. Songpa District said Thursday it will launch a milk delivery business next month to help keep an eye on senior citizens. According to the plan, milk will be delivered three times a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next month, navigation services will notify drivers of icy roads. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety will soon begin testing the new voice warning system jointly with three private navigation service providers until February 29 of next year. Major navigation firms including Tmap operator SK Telecom, KakaoNavi [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An online ‘Lennon Wall’ is drawing public attention amid strife over the Lennon Walls installed on South Korean university campuses in support of the pro-democratization protests in Hong Kong. Recently, a new Facebook page was created with the title ‘Hong Kong Democratic Protest Online Lennon Wall.’ This page is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — There is a newly coined word, ‘smombie’, a compound of ‘smartphone’ and ‘zombie’, referring to those who walk slowly without attention to their surroundings because they are absorbed in their smartphones. In order to prevent traffic accidents involving smombies, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has introduced new crosswalks and traffic [...]
OKCHEON, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A literature vending machine has been set up to help citizens easily find poems like masterpieces by poet Jeong Ji-yong, a master of modern Korean poetry. The vending machine, introduced at Jeong Ji-yong Memorial Hall in Okcheon County, North Chungcheong Province, stores about 50 poems written by him. Users can press a [...]