SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed smartphone-based technology to detect counterfeit baby formula, potentially offering a simple solution to a problem that has plagued consumers for years. The research team, led by professor Han Jun from KAIST’s School of Computing, collaborated with Yonsei [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new smartphone app that can check the change in the amount of urine produced by analyzing the sound of urination. A joint research team from the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and the Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital announced on Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Group, which operates high-end department stores throughout the nation, announced that it is launching a new smartphone app that will allow shoppers to check, in real-time, the wait time at restaurants situated within Shinsegae malls. Through the service, which launched at Shinsegae’s Gangnam branch yesterday and will roll [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The City of Bucheon in Gyeonggi province will begin a “Safe-return-home” taxi service from May by sharing taxi information with a passenger’s family members. Using an NFC tag installed in every taxi in the city adjacent to western Seoul, passengers can tag their phone and have the service send information including [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) –MySite, a company specializing in smartphone app development, has launched Korea’s first app hosting service by which small enterprises could lease smartphone apps for their business purposes. Until now, most apps had to be developed from scratch with companies spending fortunes to develop each app. That’s why apps are mostly [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Ium, a social dating service operator, said on May 7 that it has launched an app “Your Ideal Type Audition.” The new smartphone app, based on an idea that everyone is everyone else’s ideal type, can find Mr. and Miss Right in a game-like setting. Once the user begins the app, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 29 (Korea Bizwire) – By developing a smartphone application, the Korean government has made it easier and more convenient for drivers to report road hazards such as potholes and rock falls. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport will begin a service called “Efficient Solution for Road Inconveniences” processing civil complaints within [...]