SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans think of health as the most important aspect of quality of life, according to a recent survey. The survey by World Research was conducted at the request of the Smart Health Management Strategy Lab at Seoul National University, with the aim of creating a quality of life [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will come up with recall and examination standards for autonomous vehicles by 2020 so as to allow everyday operations of driverless cars, a government official said Tuesday. At a global conference on autonomous vehicles held in Seoul, Kim Chae-gyu, director general of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Third-grade elementary school students in South Korea are the least happy despite being well-off compared to students in other countries, a recent survey has revealed. The survey conducted by the international NGO Save the Children and the Institute of Social Welfare at Seoul National University compared South Korean third-graders [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Security guards at Seoul National University are quickly losing ground to the advance of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), as new unmanned security systems are being deployed at its Gwanak campus, a move that some fear will result in job losses for current employees. As night security guards are [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul National University unveiled Tuesday the SNUber2, an urban self-driving vehicle and the follow-up model to the original SNUber, which was introduced in November 2015, and used for transporting disabled students around campus. Developed by the school’s Intelligent Vehicle IT Research Center, the new generation vehicle is suitable for [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Alumni and retired professors from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Seoul National University (SNU) are establishing an agricultural school in Uganda to pass on their knowledge and technical expertise. A group of alumni announced on Sunday, July 3, that they had formed a committee for Uganda’s Sangrok [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors raided the office of a Seoul National University (SNU) professor in the country’s capital and arrested the scholar Wednesday over allegations he manipulated reports on Oxy Reckitt Benckiser products in return for money. Oxy is currently being probed by state prosecutors over its toxic humidifier sterilizers that have [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – At 10 a.m. in the morning on a Thursday, about 100 people in their 20s and 30s were standing in line in front of the Nike store at Yeongdeungpo’s Times Square mall. The line was due to the imminent launch of a new ‘Nike Airmax 95‘ model. The sneakers were [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonsei University, one of the most prestigious universities in Korea, has published the world’s first Chinese-Chinese-Korean bilingual dictionary, which can help people learn both Chinese and Korean. The dictionary offers definitions of Chinese words in Chinese and Korean together. The bilingual dictionary was developed by 228 professors from 126 [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have developed a method to estimate in real time the paracellular permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which works to prevent brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and strokes by blocking inflammation and germs from entering the brain. The high paracellular permeability of BBB is often linked with [...]