SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow firefighter drones to take to the air with minimum approval from authorities, the government said Wednesday. Under revised aviation safety laws, emergency response personnel can immediately launch a drone and fly it to the scene of a fire after making a phone call to the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is expected to move forward with new policies that would permit the installation of hydrogen charging stations in semi-residential areas and commercial areas as well as the establishment of drone zones in currently prohibited airspace. Such issues were addressed yesterday at the Central Government Complex [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Among various kinds of certifications, drone pilot certification was found to be the most popular among South Koreans. According to Yes24, a South Korean online bookstore, some 1,720 books related to drone pilot certification were sold in 2017, a big jump from 10 books in 2015 and 170 books [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A police officer used a drone to catch a dog that broke into a farm and killed several chickens. Busan Gijang Police Station Lt. Kim Sang-deok received a report last month that a black dog had broken into a farm and killed 18 chickens before it escaped. When Lt. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to expand the use of drones to monitor illegal fishing and marine littering in waters around the nation, the oceans ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said an internal venture team set a goal of utilizing 500 unmanned aerial vehicles by 2022 [...]
WONJU, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corporation, South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, showcased a new emergency platform today that utilizes an unmanned aircraft and a drone to find survivors of natural disasters and other large-scale emergencies. The “Skyship” platform revealed at KT Corporation’s Wonju Campus includes an unmanned aircraft, a command, control & communications [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — For the first time near the capital city of Seoul, a drone district is to be designated on a trial basis. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) announced yesterday that it is adding three more districts (Hwaseong in Gyeonggi Province, Gwangyang in South Jeolla Province and Seogwipo [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones have been gaining popularity in their application for a wide range of industries, including agriculture and manufacturing. They have become more reliable and capable of different tasks as technology has advanced. The Presidential Fourth Industrial Revolution Committee announced the establishment of an ‘Intelligence-based Forestry Disaster Management Strategy’ on [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Goyang will utilize drones for neighborhood patrol and fire inspections according to a new plan unveiled by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Wednesday. The Ministry stated that the planned trials will be executed in the areas surrounding Hwajeong Subway Station in Goyang. The [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. registered two patents related to drones with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this month, industry sources said Friday, a sign that the South Korean tech giant may move into the segment in the near future. According to sources, Samsung won patents related to [...]