SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced on October 15 that it has developed an indoor positioning system working in indoor environments such as shopping malls. The indoor navigation utilizes applications in smartphones to gather maps inside a building and process the information automatically to keep track of the user’s location. [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – An instant automatic translation application for a smartphone has been newly released so that with its new version users are expected to make good use of it when traveling in another country, even without the Internet connection. On Sep. 1, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) launched and [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is famous for its obsession with English education. So passionate about improving English skills that there is a rising number of ‘English-only villages’ across the nation, including the Paju English Camp in Gyeonggi Province. The volume of the nation’s private English education market is estimated at roughly 6 [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A technology that can control smart devices with hand gestures without the need for touch has been developed by a state-run research outfit. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said on June 1 that it has succeeded in developing the “wearable gesture technology” capable of controlling wearable computers such as [...]