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 [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A private-public-military joint training program and drill has been conducted to prepare for potential drone terror attacks. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency carried out a joint anti-drone terror drill together with the Army’s Capital Defense Command and Hansei University at the Jamsil Sports Complex in Seoul on Tuesday. In [...]
GANGNEUNG, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The east coast city of Gangneung in Gangwon Province is coming up with measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 at local beaches. The municipal government plans to mount thermal cameras on drones introduced last year for the enforcement of social distancing policy to track beachgoers with a fever. [...]