SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea launched a presidential council on science and technology Thursday to oversee the nation’s efforts to overhaul the research and development (R&D) sector. The “strategic” panel, headed by President Park Geun-hye, will serve as a “control tower” and a “trouble shooter” for South Korea’s overall science and technology [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of Korean scientists has successfully produced a research pig with symptoms related to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Research into dementia and Alzheimer’s is still in its early stages, and this new development could be instrumental for future progress. The team from Seoul National University, led by professors [...]
JEONJU, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have uncovered evidence as to why ‘hanwoo’ (Korean beef) tastes so good. Hanwoo is considered to be a ‘special occasion food’, only consumed on important gatherings or offered as a gift at holidays because of its great taste and extremely high prices. Although Koreans don’t have to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has developed a semiconductor device using new material that changes itself from a semiconductor to conductor as its temperature changes. The new device lessens power loss and operates much faster. The new semiconductor device created by the research team maintains the characteristics of semiconductors, but [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea was the world’s most research and development intensive country in 2012, spending 4.36 percent of GDP on R&D, according to the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014. Korea also was the top at the R&D spending rate out of the total revenue, representing 3.4 percent. The report [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It becomes common that humanities majors are neglected while STEM (science-technology-engineering-math) majors take center stage in job markets across the world. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 6, 2013, that the unemployment rate of graduates majoring in English among recent college graduates in the United Sates was 9.8 percent. [...]
SEOUL, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology said on September 10 that its College of Natural Sciences professor Kim Kwanpyo, jointly with Lee Han-Bo-Ram (Incheon National University), and Zhenan Bao and Stacey F. Bent (Stanford University), succeeded in developing a technique to repair graphene’s line defects by selectively depositing [...]