SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Caltex Corp., South Korea’s second-largest refiner by sales, is speeding up the development of a next-generation delivery service that combines drones and robots and is based at gas stations. The company held the nation’s first demonstration of the next-generation delivery service on Tuesday that features the combination of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has tested an autonomous drone food delivery service amid rising demand for non-contact services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the transport ministry said Saturday. In a test held in the administrative city of Sejong, some 130 kilometers southeast of Seoul, five drones delivered meals and other products to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hancom Group, South Korea’s leading office software developer, said Wednesday it has acquired a local firm as part of efforts to tap deeper into the aerospace and drone businesses. Hancom took over InSpace Co., which develops satellite ground station solutions and drone technologies. The group did not reveal the [...]
CHEONGJU, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones with high-resolution cameras have proven to be invaluable during this summer’s lengthy monsoon season. Last Wednesday, Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency’s drone team looked for missing victims of a flood that swept through Chungju Lake near Jecheon. The team’s large drones can fly as fast as 75 kilometers per [...]
JEJU, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The provincial government of Jeju Island, South Korea’s most popular vacation destination, is speeding up various projects to enable drones to deliver parcels and other goods across the island. Last May, a demonstration was held where drones carried protective masks to the nearby Marado, an island eight kilometers off [...]
SEJONG, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting from the end of this year, drone companies engaged in drone making, selling or rentals will be obliged to inform customers about no-fly zones and times through their websites. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Wednesday that the amended notice of fair labelling and advertising would take [...]
GUNSAN, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The ‘Smart Marine Drone Patrol,’ a collaboration between Gunsan Coast Guard in North Jeolla Province and the Korea Maritime Rescue and Salvation Association (MARSA), was established on Thursday. The drone patrol, first of its kind ever to be established within the Coast Guard, comprises 20 members from the Coast [...]
CHUNCHEON, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A local government has created a direct cultivation complex that sprays rice seeds into rice paddies using drones to ease the shortage of rural workers due to South Korea’s aging population. If rice seeds coated with iron are put into a drone dispenser and sprayed immediately, the seedlings and [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading oil refinery has introduced drone inspection techniques to inspect crude oil storage tanks. SK Energy Co. said Wednesday it will conduct inspections of its 86-meter-high crude oil storage tanks at its key production hub, Ulsan CLX plant, with drones, not company employees. “Drone tests have not [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island is working with the private sector to launch a drone delivery service to distribute protective masks to residents living on remote islands without a proper mask supplier. Jeju Province and Doosan Mobility Innovation distributed 1,200 protective masks to residents on Gapa, Mara, and Biyang islands on Thursday [...]