SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday it is currently running a driving rehabilitation program for persons with disabilities as part of its creating shared value (CSV) project for sustainable management. The carmaker developed a virtual driving simulator jointly with the Citizens’ Coalition for Safety and Inno Simulation for the program. [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new service that predicts traffic jams on major roads in Seoul will begin later this year. The Seoul Facilities Corp. said it will begin a big data-based traffic jam prediction system in November. The prediction system will cover eight major roads including the Gangbyeon Northern Highway, Olympic-daero and 12 other major [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in South Korea hit an all-time high last year, with the atmospheric methane level also registering a sharp increase, a meteorological institute said Tuesday. The CO2 level in the air, measured from the country’s longest-running observation station on Anmyeon Island, 124 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Monday it will introduce a rapid inspection system to address the blind spot in the inspection of residue pesticides that occurs during the distribution process of the fast-growing dawn delivery agricultural product market. The inspection of the safety of agricultural products, [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of unreturned deposits for “jeonse” home rentals is increasing year after year, hitting an all-time high in the first half of this year, data showed Monday. Under South Korea’s decades-old jeonse system, tenants pay a large lump-sum deposit, known as key money, to the landlord, which [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Tropical nights, during which the temperature stays above 25 degrees Celsius at night, are becoming more severe in Seoul and nearby areas, a study showed Sunday. A research team from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology analyzed daily low temperature data from 1979 to 2018, which showed [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean embassy in Mexico has donated three pieces of medical equipment valued at US$76,000 to the Korea-Mexico friendship hospital located in Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan. The donation includes mobile ultrasonic diagnosis equipment, a mobile X-ray scanner and a video electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring device. [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is introducing a 5G network to replace LTE-based public Wi-Fi on public buses to expand access to the internet and help the public save on their mobile phone bills. The Ministry of Science and ICT installed 5G networking equipment on the first batch of 4,200 public buses [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Eco-friendly vehicles accounted for more than 30 percent of South Korea’s total car exports in the first five months of the year on strong overseas demand and the debut of two major electric vehicles made by local automakers in the U.S. market, data showed Monday. The value of exported [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s electricity transaction volume touched a new all-time high in the first half of the year due to eased social distancing restrictions and an early heat wave, data showed Monday. The volume of power traded in Asia’s fourth-largest economy stood at 269,432 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in the January-June period, [...]