SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The organizers of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Thursday they are operating a special team of technicians managing radio-spectrum issues at venues to avoid interference of wireless devices and ensure accurate tracking of records. PyeongChang’s organizing committee and the Ministry of Science and ICT said the team of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A new study has found people suffering from smartphone addiction are almost twice as likely to suffer from an accident. The study conducted by a research team led by Professor Min Gyeong-bok at Seoul National University College of Medicine has revealed that nearly 4 in 10 university students in South [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Metropolitan Government has announced plans to invest almost 12 billion won into developing wearable robots for the elderly over the next four years. Busan’s project dubbed ‘soft wearable suit technology development venture’ was recently picked up by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), as [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will adopt “universal” mobile subscription fees sometime next year in line with its efforts to reduce the cost burden for mobile phone users, the ICT ministry said Friday. According to the draft version of the revision to the telecommunication law — subject to parliamentary endorsement — a [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean scientists have developed high-strength and high-entropy alloys that can withstand temperatures as low as minus 196 degrees Celsius, the ICT ministry said Wednesday, a finding that can have various industrial applications. The team led by Kim Hyung-seob at Pohang University of Science and Technology developed [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The newly elected Moon Jae-in administration has reaffirmed its stance on cutting mobile phone bills for the socially marginalized in South Korea. In a business meeting with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) held today, Lee Gae-ho from the advisory committee for government planning said reducing [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday it will allocate 100 billion won (US$87.2 million) to develop supercomputers, amid the rising awareness of the segment after Google Inc.’s AlphaGo posted a historical win against mankind in a board game last month. The Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning said it will invest [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning held a hearing on November 17 to introduce a public television home shopping channel, which is exclusively reserved for small businesses and farmers. The government plans to considerably lower a fee and dedicate 95 to 100 percent of programming for goods manufactured [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Dispersed medical records in many medical institutions will be integrated in a personal smartphone in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on November 6 that it started to develop an ICT Healing Platform Service, which allows a patient to gather scattered medical records from hospitals [...]
“For two days on Saturday and Sunday [November 1 and 2], it is regrettable that some mobile phone retail outlets paid illegal subsidies to iPhone 6 buyers who had to wait for hours in long lines. We will make sure this kind of unfortunate incident will not happen again by using all means possible.” “There [...]