SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will soon come up with measures to promote its leadership in the global market for drones, the government said Monday, also announcing plans to host a conference toward that end. The one-day conference on drones will be held Friday in Seoul, involving hundreds of government officials and [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will spend a total of 500 billion won (US$428 million) in the coming three years to foster the rapidly growing drone industry as a new growth engine for Asia’s fourth-largest economy, the trade ministry here said Tuesday. “The drone technology generates massive ripple effects on conventional industries, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Local cargo delivery company CJ Korea Express has recently teamed up with Dongguk University to develop drones for its distribution centers. The drones will have the ability to learn different routes, allowing them to fly around the facility autonomously without human control. Their main role will be to check [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Drones will be playing a more active role next year in Korea’s agriculture industry. The National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (NAQS) announced Monday that it would deploy drones starting in 2017 to efficiently observe crops and farmland, in line with recent study results showing that using drone imagery [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is developing a technology to bring down unmanned North Korean aircraft using electromagnetic pulse (EMP), military officials said Sunday. According to the officials, the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has developed a directional, high-powered EMP generator, and it’s trying to devise ways to use it against small [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean firefighters may soon start using drones in their search and rescue missions, while remote controlled drones may also help save lives by airlifting much needed medicine and other emergency supplies to people in areas often stranded by seasonal floods or heavy snowfall, the government said Thursday. One [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Aerospace University scientists have discovered the fundamentals of insect flight, using a newly developed “insect robot”. According to the team, most insects use a flying method that creates spiraling vortices around the wings, which allows for stable flight even in sudden gusts. Although there have been scientific studies [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s first test flight for a passenger drone is set to take place on Thursday afternoon at Yeongam’s Public Stadium. According to a county official, the flight of a passenger drone built by Airship Communication, a domestic drone and airship manufacturer, has been approved by the Ministry of Land, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The opinion that a regulation free zone should be implemented in Korea has been proposed as the global service market for commercial drones is now estimated to be 144.8 trillion KRW. According to the report “Current Status of Commercial Drones and the Policy to Deregulate the Operation” proposed by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – In an effort to facilitate the rising need for drone experts in the military, the Korean army has decided to give preference to NCO applicants with either a major in drone-related fields or holding official UAV piloting licenses. “The Army Intelligence School (AIS) will supply teaching materials to colleges [...]