SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. said Wednesday it has commercialized a foldable display panel with the smallest radius of curvature in the world. Samsung Display said its latest foldable OLED panel that was applied to Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 smartphone has a 1.4R rating for its curvature, which [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a major electronic components maker in South Korea, said Sunday it has developed the world’s smallest power inductor. The affiliate of Samsung Group said its new power inductor measures 0.8 millimeter in width and 0.4 mm in length, which is a significant decrease from the industry’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Global shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group said Monday it has built a very large container ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the first time in the world. The group said Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co., one of its shipbuilding units, will deliver the vessel with [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Energy Corp., an energy solutions affiliate of Hanwha Group, said Tuesday it has completed the construction of a hydrogen fuel cell power plant, the first of its kind and the largest in the world to be powered solely by hydrogen that is extracted as a byproduct from petrochemical [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean scientist has succeeded in curing Parkinson’s disease using a patient’s own stem cells for the first time in history. Prof. Kim Kwang-soo of McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and his research team announced Tuesday that they had succeeded in a clinical treatment of transplanting stem cells extracted [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. announced Thursday the development of the world’s first predictive Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Connected Shift System, enabling a vehicle to automatically shift to the optimal gear after identifying the road and traffic conditions ahead. The two companies have submitted [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday unveiled the world’s first geostationary environmental monitoring satellite that can closely check the movement of fine dust and other air pollutants in the East Asian region in real time. The 3.4-ton Chollian-2B, scheduled to be sent into orbit from French Guiana in February 2020, will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Infracore Co., South Korea’s leading construction equipment maker, on Wednesday introduced a comprehensive control system for the management of construction sites with unmanned and automated technologies. Doosan Infracore demonstrated “Concept-X” at its test center in Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province, 140 kilometers south of Seoul, with officials from Bosch, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Wednesday it has developed a new rear-autonomous emergency braking (R-AEB) technology. In a first for the automobile industry, Hyundai Mobis used ultra short range radar (USRR) rather than a combination of camera and ultrasonic sensor to develop the R-AEB [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group has developed the world’s very first active noise control technology by using sound waves. South Korea’s top automaker announced on Monday that it has completed a 6-year journey to develop its Road Noise Active Noise Control (RANC) system, which prevents road noise from entering the car. The company [...]