SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry will open an annual international defense forum in Seoul on Tuesday for talks on promoting peace and cooperation against regional and global security challenges. The Seoul Defense Dialogue will bring together some 800 high-level security officials and civil experts from 56 countries, the North Atlantic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has launched a 16.2 billion-won (US$13.9 million) project to develop a space weather forecast system by 2024 to ensure the stable operations of military assets, such as high-altitude drones, the state arms procurement agency said Tuesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said it signed a contract [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Spire Global, one of the world’s largest space-powered data and analytics companies, announced today that it will be working with Pole Star to provide all global data, for satellite, terrestrial, and Dynamic™ AIS to one of the six branches of the United States Armed Forces. This collaborative effort [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Ki-duk, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, has demanded actresses have sex with him and raped one of them, according to testimonies from victims. MBC TV’s investigative news show “PD’s Notepad” on Tuesday exposed more dirt on alleged sexual misconduct involving Kim and actor Cho Jae-hyun, who has frequently appeared [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and France sought to expand their ties in the aerospace sector on Monday in an effort to further develop related technology and pioneer the emerging market. The agreement came at the “Korea-France Space Forum,” organized by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, which brought together [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is all set to provide the world with high-resolution commercial satellite imagery from its new satellite, a government ministry said Monday. The Korea Multipurpose Satellite-3A (KOMSAT-3A), also known as the Arirang-3A, was put into orbit in March last year as part of South Korea’s efforts to emerge [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government has announced that 200 billion won will be invested in space exploration over the next three years. For the first time in Korean history, plans to explore the moon will be established. Through the project, a shuttle that will orbit the moon and a satellite that [...]
GOHEUNG, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea is on course to test launch its next-generation space rocket in late 2016 after it made headway in resolving a major technical obstacle that could have led to delays, the head of the country’s aerospace research institute said Sunday. In a meeting with reporters at the Naro Space [...]
SEOUL, Nov.6 (Korea Bizwire) – As the sci-fi blockbuster movie ‘The Martian’ became a box office hit, items related to space, science and NASA are also in high demand. According to the online shopping mall 11st, sales of telescopes have increased 32 percent during the three weeks since ‘The Martian’ opened (October 8 to October [...]