SEONGNAM, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seongnam municipal government in Gyeonggi Province is on track to use drones for the delivery of library books. The city government said Monday that it will launch a pilot project for the proposed service within the first half of next year. The service will use drones to deliver [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials said Thursday that it has developed a 5-kilowatt hydrogen fuel engine that can power heavy lift industrial drones. The newly-developed engine supplies hydrogen fuel using the direct spray method while optimizing engine parameters such as ignition and spray. The hydrogen engine has [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Parcel delivery services offered jointly by humans and robots are expected to become available in two or three years at the earliest. The Ministry of Economy and Finance said Wednesday that it had decided to revise the Living Logistics Service Act towards including drones and robots as transportation means. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A new technology has been developed that makes it easier to measure the acreage of rice plants that have been damaged due to rain or wind. The Korea Seed and Variety Service on Thursday demonstrated technology that can automatically measure the acreage of damaged rice plants using a drone [...]
GWANGJU, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean drone company has succeeded in remotely controlling a drone thousands of kilometers away. Local drone manufacturer Hogreen Air on Thursday succeeded in remotely controlling two 5G hydrogen fuel cell drones in at a drone park in the southern city of Gwangju from a 9,042-kilometer distance in Silicon Valley. [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A project is underway to set up exclusive stations for drones at the Port of Busan. This plan gained momentum after the Busan Port Authority’s project to develop robot automation-based unmanned drone stations for the management of port facilities was selected for support by the Ministry of SMEs and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Chungcheong Province and the Chungnam Fire Service Headquarters completed the development of a high-altitude fire extinguishing system using collective drones and carried out demonstrations on Thursday. At the demonstration, held at the National Fire Service Academy in Cheonan, two scout drones and three firefighting drones were deployed to [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Land and Housing Corp. (LH) has established a new system that uses drones to enhance the efficiency in checking and measuring construction sites and scrutinizing land compensation. The state housing developer announced that it has been using drones at construction sites since 2018 and recently completed the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday it will expand the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the public sector, from monitoring costal pollution to land surveying, in a move to foster development of the local drone industry. The Ministry of Science and ICT has earmarked 41.3 billion won (US$35.8 [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul police rescued an 80-year-old man who went missing after alluding to a possible suicide using drones for the first time in the city. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s drone search team rescued an 80-year-old man, who had collapsed near a local reed field near the southern part of [...]