SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government intends to allocate funding of 3 trillion won over the next six years to address Japan’s release of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. According to data from the National Assembly’s Budget Policy Office concerning the government’s response to the discharge of contaminated water [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug authorities began the monitoring of whether COVID-19 self-test kit purchase restrictions are going smoothly amid a supply crunch and soaring virus cases. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it is looking into whether pharmacies and convenience stores are abiding by the latest measures to [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment and the Korea Environment Corp. (KECO) have started to provide real-time information on the density of ultrafine particulate matter at subway stations across the country through a website and mobile application. Thanks to a revision of the Indoor Air Quality Management Act in April 2019, [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government will step up efforts to contain misleading information online about coronavirus vaccines, as the country begun its mass inoculation program last week. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters on Wednesday, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency and the Korea Communications Commission [...]
GWANGJU, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed new technology that enables users to verify whether a stent has become re-stenosed in a blood vessel via a smartphone. A joint research team from Chonnam National University Hospital and Chonnam National University recently announced that they had developed the world’s first monitoring technology [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Google’s video-sharing platform YouTube will cooperate with South Korea to closely monitor and prevent the spread of fake news and illegal content, South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said Friday, citing a Google executive. Google’s Senior Vice President Neal Mohan made the comments during a videoconference with Han Sang-hyuk, chairman of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on Wednesday that it will recruit “street monitoring” agents who will on their own initiative do volunteer work to improve the walking environment. The city will receive applications until January 20. Those selected as agents will help create a safe and pleasant walking environment [...]
POHANG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Smartphones can now be used to monitor how a fish grows inside a fish farm. The Pohang University of Science and Technology announced on Wednesday that the Gyeongbuk Sea Grant Center, the university’s affiliate research institution, has developed a wireless underwater camera system. Up until now, fish farm owners [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A stress-measuring sensor that could be inserted into the human body to measure stress in real-time has been created by a South Korean research team. The Korea Research Foundation announced on Tuesday that a joint research team led by Prof. Kim Tae-il from Sungkyunkwan University and Prof. Choi Young-jin [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to install unmanned vigilance equipment at major military posts to complement surveillance soldiers in line with an expected reduction in the troop numbers, the state defense acquisition agency said Monday. The military will gradually put up high-definition security cameras and attach infiltration detection equipment to barbed [...]