SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. released a video of a light show performed by more than 1,000 drones over downtown Seoul in celebration of the new year to send out a message of hope. The company posted a five-minute video of a ‘2021 Countdown Drone Light Show’ on its official YouTube [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to intensify research and development (R&D) efforts to better respond to illegal drones that take aerial photos or videos without permission or fly in and around airports. The Ministry of Science and ICT recently announced that together with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy [...]
CHUNGJU, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A quarantine drone demonstration was held on Wednesday at a pig farm located in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province. This trial performance showed how drones can be used to control disease and pests in the livestock industry, similar to current practices in the agricultural sector. Each drone can spray up [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest 2.7 trillion won (US$2.3 billion) in the next 10 years to develop drones for military use, the arms procurement agency said Tuesday. Under the plan, the country will develop various drones to carry out missions ranging from surveillance to firing grenades and rifles, according [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled on Tuesday a solution that uses drones and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to optimize the performance of 5G networks by analyzing the installation state of base stations and antennas. As part of the solution, drones take videos of 5G base stations and antenna systems and [...]
Pleasant Grove, Utah, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Fortem Technologies, the technical leader for counter drone security and defense solutions, will be holding a free webinar on the topic of countering drone threats on a global scale. In this webinar, Fortem’s leaders will discuss the security issues caused by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and provide a [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones with artificial intelligence (AI) video analysis technology will be deployed starting next year to fly over cultural heritage sites for monitoring and investigation. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) announced Thursday that it will draw up plans for video analysis drones to be used for safety management of cultural [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army held a session to demonstrate the use of military drones, including suicide ones, on Thursday as part of efforts to improve its tactical operational capabilities by utilizing the latest technologies. During the session, the first of its kind, held in Icheon, south of Seoul, the Army presented [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean environmental authorities will use drones to monitor factories emitting air pollutants. The National Institute of Environmental Research from the Ministry of Environment trialed drones and vehicles equipped with air quality monitoring systems early Wednesday in industrial areas. A number of high-risk areas in Seoul were selected, where average [...]
SEJONG, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has announced it will make changes to standing regulation so that drones may be flown at higher altitudes in high density building clusters without having to receive clearance before takeoff. To account for the risk of drones crashing into one another while airborne or flying into a [...]