DAEJEON, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea has seen an increasing number of patents targeting the rapidly growing market for biometrics, driven by an increasing supply of smartphones and wearable devices, and the expansion of IoT-based services. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the annual number of patent applications related to biometric technology more [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of the Interior revealed yesterday that it will implement new mobile systems for social affairs. Over the course of a three-year plan, up to 3,000 social affairs services will become available from smartphones. Social affairs services include the issuance of various types of documents such as resident [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government is reviewing an option to beef up security at public office buildings by adopting a biometrics recognition system, the interior minister said Thursday. The policymaker’s announcement comes as Seoul took fire for lax security after a man broke into a government building earlier this month. [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Suprema Inc., a leading global provider of technology in biometrics and security, today announced it provided its fingerprint recognition terminal, BioEntry Plus, to Carrefour Supermarkets in Istanbul, Turkey, for a new system of access control and time & attendance. A total of 500 units were provided by Meyer Inc, [...]