SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is seeking to team up with the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to pin down the sources of Korea’s high fine dust air pollution levels, a government agency said Sunday. The National Institute of Environmental Research, a research body under the Ministry of Environment, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to carry out an exploration of the ocean floor near its eastern island of Ulleung around July and August, an official said, in an apparent effort to better understand its easternmost territory, Dokdo. Dokdo — a set of rocky islets in the East Sea — has [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Pollack, one of the most common white fish, has been found to play an important role as a health supplement. According to the Korea Overseas Fisheries Association on Monday, such results were published by Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. in November 2017. It was found that the protein content of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it has opened its first overseas research center devoted solely to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The South Korean tech giant said the Toronto AI Lab in Canada will carry out various research through cooperation with the University of Toronto starting from [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Vivid memories and emotions about things affect our perceptions of when they took place, but can the chance of them happening again also influence how we regard the past? Those of us who watched the Hollywood hit movie, La La Land, which focuses on a bitter-sweet love [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spearhead a project to develop a drug platform based on artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, the government said Thursday, in the latest effort to transform the country into a global biotech and medical industry hub. A total of four research centers and universities — the [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s technology and chemical conglomerate LG Group said Friday it launched a new research complex in western Seoul aimed at bolstering its technological capabilities. “People and technologies are the best assets in our country, which lacks natural resources,” said LG Vice Chairman Koo Bon-Joon said in a statement. “Investing in research and development projects and fostering professionals are the fundamental [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Economic Research Institute held a seminar on August 23 regarding social mobility and education, where Professor Lee Joo Ho of the Korea Development Institute presented his findings on the correlation between children’s school grades and a family’s economic, social and cultural standing (ESCS). His research was based [...]
POHANG, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of engineers from Pohang University of Science and Technology has successfully developed so-called “bio-blood-vessels” using material extracted from the human body as a template for 3D printing. The team found that its printed blood vessels exhibited no problems in performing their desired function when implanted. The vessels [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – News broke on August 20 that an R&D center devoted to artificial intelligence (AI) research will open its doors this coming October in Seoul’s Seocho District. The facility will be housed on four floors at the Korean Federation of Teachers’ Associations building located in the Umyeon neighborhood. Major players [...]