SEOUL, Dec.10 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has announced that a public service that will offer new and small businesses advice on the usage of big data is set to be launched. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced that the K-ICT Big Data Center from the National Information Society Agency will be [...]
SEOUL, Dec.2 (Korea Bizwire) – After analyzing 43 categories of small businesses such as restaurants and both wholesalers and retailers, the Seoul Metropolitan Government reported that their 10 year survival rate was only 19.9 percent. To boost the sales of small businesses struggling to stay afloat, Seoul city officials announced on December 1 that they [...]
SEOUL, Nov.30 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Weather Management’ is rising as a new method for companies to create new businesses and enhance the efficiency of management overall. According to a report entitled ‘Understanding Weather Management and its Possibilities’ issued by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET), weather management is a field with a [...]
SEOUL, Nov.24 (Korea Bizwire) – KT announced that through collaboration with Lab Genomics, a company specializing in the analysis of genes, they will be launching ‘Nobel Guard’, a machine which screens genetic conditions that cause development disorders among children. Nobel Guard was created with KT’s aptitude in analyzing big data, and the next generation sequence [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to strengthen its customized statistics service in line with the “Government 3.0” era, Statistics Korea will reorganize its structure and establish an office devoted to big data analysis. With the reorganization, the national statistics office will transform its Information and Service Bureau into a Statistics Data Hub [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – What are the most in-demand scientific technologies for Koreans? The ICT ministry will develop technology according to the desires of the population through big data analysis on opinions found on the Internet, SNS and in news stories. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced on September 20 that its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - The Ministry of National Defense is planning to use big data to build a system that analyzes the characteristics of those who cause problems within the military and those who are at risk of committing suicide. It plans to use the system as a point of reference to weed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Statistics Korea and Naver, the top big data holders in the public and private sectors respectively, have joined hands to create public value based on big data. On September 2, Statistics Korea announced that it signed an MoU with Naver, Korea’s top Internet portal operator, to construct a society prediction [...]
SEOUL, August 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A map that shows what medical facilities people use according to age, gender and residence will be developed using big data. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport signed an MOU with the National Health Insurance Corporation to create a ‘Health Map’. The agreement between the two organizations was made [...]
Seoul, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Metropolitan Facilities Management Corporation and KAIST announced that they have succeeded in developing an automatic system to manage taxi dispatches for disabled people using big data. The team looked at 320,000,000 call taxi requests for the disabled accumulated over the past five years. After analyzing [...]