GWANGJU, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Korea Institute of Robotics and Technology Convergence showed off a variety of robots on Monday in celebration of its 10th anniversary. A snake-shaped rescue robot that is designed to explore narrow spaces can move its head in the direction that sound is coming from. After detecting people [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s recent campaign to encourage dog owners to donate animal blood ended in success. Hyundai, Konkuk University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital and the Korean Canine Blood Donor Association held a series of ‘I’M DOgNOR’ campaigns in 2019 and 2020. ‘DOgNOR’ is a combination of the words ‘dog’ [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Monday that it will start an official development assistance (ODA) project that will establish a shellfish farm in Northern Vietnam and transfer relevant technology. The Korea Forest Service plans to utilize a 330-hectare mangrove forest that is being established in Vietnam as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-driving robots will start patrolling Children’s Grand Park and the Songpa Trail in Seoul from Monday, the city government said. The robots with a height of about 108 centimeters will patrol for the prevention of crimes and disease control throughout the park. While patrolling the park and the Songpa [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As the country begins to encourage home treatment for COVID-19, demand for cough medication and fever reducers are on the rise as more people are flocking to drug stores to stock medicine at home. Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co. reported that stocks of Panpyrin cold medication are rapidly emptying out at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The booming K-pop market has led to a significant sales boost of related products. Sales of cheering props, however, have dwindled due to the ongoing pandemic. Ktown4u.com, an online shopping mall that specializes in sales of CDs of K-pop groups and their related goods, reported that sales of drama [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force marked its first anniversary last Thursday. So far, the task force has distributed 120 million vaccines, covering a distance of more than 9 million kilometers across the country in the process. The task force has deployed 52,000 military and police vehicles, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s bestselling domestic car over the last 10 years was Hyundai Motor Co.’s Grandeur sedan and the country’s bestselling imported car was the Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan, industry data showed Thursday. CarIsYou Data Research Center reported that there were 1,010,681 units of Hyundai Grandeur registered between Jan. 2012 and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer Miljenko Matijevic from American rock band Steelheart will release a new music video in which he is wearing a traditional Korean attire hanbok, wishing for peace on the Korean peninsula. The Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles reported that Matijevic is set to release a music video for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. will mount a non-fungible token (NFT) digital art platform on its LED signage. The company announced that it had formed a partnership with the U.S. digital art platform Blackdove and will mount Blackdove’s digital art platform on the LED signage it releases in the global market. [...]