SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A joint government-civilian committee kicked off Thursday to campaign for nominating two elderly Austrian women for the Nobel Peace Prize for their 40 years of service to South Korean leprosy patients on the remote island of Sorok. Former Prime Minister Kim Hwang-shik is chairing the 35-member committee aimed at [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of scientists have greatly improved the capacity and performance of lithium ion batteries based on the Nobel Prize-winning concept called “mechanical bond,” the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Friday. The team led by Choi Jang-wook and Ali Coskun integrated molecular pulleys, called polyrotaxanes, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Rock and Blues legend Bob Dylan has shown that music is also worthy of literature’s highest honor, the Nobel Prize, and it is now attracting Korea’s nostalgic consumers, largely in their 40s and 50s, for a trip down memory lane. According to online bookstore Yes24, 294 copies of Dylan’s [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The season of the Nobel Prizes is back, and Koreans are once again expressing their long-lasting dream of rearing a Nobel Prize recipient in one of the fields of science (chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine). Thus far, Kim Dae-jung, the late former President of the country, has been Korea’s only [...]