SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — An acupuncture technique to reduce facial wrinkles has proven to be effective following a clinical trial on 107 individuals. Doctor Joe Jin-Hyoung at Kwangdong Hospital of Traditional Korean Medicine said on April 21 that the hospital’s medical team conducted acupuncture treatments to reduce wrinkles around the eyes and mouth [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A new method to instantly identify the authenticity of hard-copy documents has been developed by Korean researchers. The National Forensic Service (NFS) said on April 9 that it has filed a patent for a technique of printing a 128 bit QR code encrypted with information on a hard-copy document, [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency is set to establish an SNS scanning system to detect emergencies or traffic jams in the second half of the year, said agency officials on April 2. The agency will be developing a system that detects keywords such as accident, traffic and bumper-to-bumper on Twitter and Facebook and other [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea now has a state-run online shopping mall that sells various goods, medicines and food items, following the country’s recent efforts to develop its IT infrastructure. According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 1, the online retail site is called ‘Okryoo.’ Customers can pay using [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Scenes from the 1987 Hollywood movie “Innerspace,” which depicted a human controlled micro-capsule stuck inside a human body, will soon become reality in Korea as the title holder of similar technology is transferring its patents to a medical company. On March 31, the Robot Institute of Chonnam National University announced [...]
Seoul, Korea, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced today that it successfully demonstrated a 600 Mbps data transmission rate by using Nokia Networks’ 4X4 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology. 4X4 MIMO is a technology that doubles download speeds by using four transmit antennas and four receive antennas for communication between a mobile device [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) unveiled a prototype of the first Korean lunar exploring rover on February 16. The rover, which will be sent on Korea’s exploratory mission to the moon in 2020, is built to withstand the harsh terrain and hazardous temperature ranges found on the moon. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s national pension service is considering lending money to singles who delay or are reluctant to tie the knot because of wedding costs as a way to promote marriage and help raise chronically low birth rates, officials said Sunday. South Korea is faced with mounting demographic problems as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team at the Korea Institute for Basic Science (KIBS) has developed a new type of supercapacitor that can store as much energy as typical commercialized lithium-ion batteries. Supercapacitors are high-capacity electrochemical capacitors, which can store 10 to 100 times more energy than electrolytic capacitors. The synthesis of supercapacitors is [...]
Busan, Korea, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is to develop the largest maritime engineering aquarium in the world for deep-sea research purposes, such as simulation experiments for the construction of maritime plants. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF), the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and the city of Busan hosted a [...]