SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Element AI, a Canadian startup for artificial intelligence-powered software solutions, aims to join hands with more South Korean companies to help them adopt its cutting-edge technology, company executives said Tuesday. Based in Montreal, Element AI is an AI solutions provider co-founded in 2016 by AI authority and professor Yoshua [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Recruiting foreign specialists and academics in the materials, parts, and equipment sectors will become easier. The Ministry of Justice announced on Monday that it will introduce a new electronic visa program for foreign specialists, following concerns that previous visa and administrative procedures related to recruiting foreign specialists in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With the advent of the era of 10 million “PetFam (pet family)” people who regard pets as family members, the home interior market for pets is also growing rapidly. The concept of interior design is also changing from a place where people can live to a place where pets [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hit hard by a boycott against travel to Japan, the travel industry is looking for a breakthrough with the rising popularity of customized trips where clients can choose the specifics of their travel . The number of users of “group-tailored travel service” by South Korea’s major travel agency Hana [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans want the government to push ahead with its decision not to renew a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a poll showed Monday. Seoul decided in August to end the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) amid disputes over trade and wartime history. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranks as one of the leading members among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the treatment of cancer, medical data showed Sunday. The 2019 Health at a Glance report released by the Paris-based organization said Asia’s fourth-largest economy had the highest five-year survival rate [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Friday reversed its earlier decision and ruled in favor of a Korean-American singer who was banned from entering South Korea in a move that may allow him to finally visit the country for the first time in 17 years. Steve Yoo, better known as Yoo [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – In the case of smokers, people in their 40s and 50s who are most active in society are at high risk of sudden death due to cardiovascular disease. Researchers at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital analyzed big data records of 500,000 people who had regular checkups between 2002 and 2013. According [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A new vinyl greenhouse has been developed that maintains an indoor temperature 2 to 3 degrees Celsius cooler than the outdoor temperature during summer. Accordingly, even in the summer, when the temperature is high, vegetables and flowers such as strawberries and roses will be able to be grown and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — One in five households in Seoul have a pet and the number of homes that have embraced cats is on the rise, data showed Friday. Some 20 percent of the surveyed households said they were living with a pet as of 2018, compared with 18.8 percent in 2014, according [...]