BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 16, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – The Qatari capital will host the third edition of the region’s leading urban innovation event from 29-30 November. Under the motto “A World of Data: Connecting People, Elevating Lives”, Smart City Expo Doha (SCE Doha) will lead the debate on sustainable urban development and the importance of data [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and public institutions will make the extensive cancer patient database available to academic and industrial researchers. The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Tuesday introduced the K-CURE online library, a comprehensive big data framework that encompasses 1.98 million cancer patients registered between 2012 and 2019. This dataset [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Wednesday that a model analyzing satellite image data to identify areas requiring crime prevention facilities will be distributed to municipal governments nationwide. The model, which is scheduled to be distributed from mid-May, was developed using the cities of Ansan and Hwaseong [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Public opinion continues to stay divided over how to deal with stray cats, most likely due to the lack of a reasonable basis for arguments made by all contending parties. For starters, how many stray cats are there? The question remains unanswered, with only estimations of those living in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing market demand for the release of data about owner-operated businesses, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) decided to make public such data held by public financial institutions starting from Friday. Five public financial institutions, including the Industrial Bank of Korea and the Korea Development Bank, under the umbrella [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest more than 20 trillion won (US$16.4 billion) in data, network and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors over the next three years in a bid to help nurture future-oriented industries, the finance minister said Friday. Along with fiscal spending, the government plans to provide support for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of companies are using data instead of ‘guts’ to do business with the introduction of various services that analyze sales and market trends. Last February, major South Korean credit card issuer Samsung Card Co. introduced LINK Partner, a service that collects and analyzes customer payment data [...]
SEJONG, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island had the highest ratio of double income households last year among South Korea’s major cities and provinces, data showed Sunday. Among the island’s 158,000 households with married couples, the share of double income households stood at 60.4 percent or 96,000 households, the highest ratio among major regions [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of 10 people who died last year from industrial accidents were aged 60 or older, according to the labor ministry. A total of 882 people died in industrial accidents last year, marking an increase of 27, or 3.2 percent, from 2019, according to data released Wednesday by [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to one third of South Korean households own pets. However, recent data shows that 3 in 4 pets are often left alone at home, for around six hours every day. KB Financial Group’s research unit reported Sunday that as many as 6 million homes owned pets as of [...]