SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent military data has shown that with the increasing popularity of drones, their presence in the no-fly zone (P73A) covering Cheong Wa Dae is now threatening the security of one of Korea’s most important government facilities. Cheong Wa Dae (the Blue House), the equivalent of the White House in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air and Boeing have teamed up to develop the MD500 helicopter into an unmanned military chopper. According to the airline on Thursday, the two parties signed a memorandum of agreement for the enterprise which will run until 2017. Korean Air has successfully remodeled the local military’s MD500 choppers into [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) announced Thursday that its EAV-3, a solar-powered drone, completed a successful 90-minute flight in the Earth’s stratosphere, some 18.5 kilometers above the surface of the earth, on August 12. This also made the aircraft the world’s third of its kind to successfully enter [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The world’s leading drone manufacturer, DJI, is opening the world’s first indoor drone arena in Yongin, about 50km south of the South Korean capital. “We’re opening the indoor arena in South Korea after judging that the market has huge potential for growth,” said a DJI official. The venue is [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, is just around the corner. In truth, we’re already a part of it. The Korean government revealed Thursday that it would increase its research & development investment by 50 percent in high-tech fields like artificial intelligence and robotics that will be of [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Army plans to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the near future to deliver defense supplies to troops around the country, the military said Wednesday. The Army conducted a system demonstration of a delivery drone during a meeting held earlier in the day to evaluate the [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are being mobilized in various industrial sectors, a provincial counsel will enact an ordinance to help support the drone industry. According to the Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly on June 21, it pre-announced the “Provincial Ordinance to Grow and Support UAV (Drone) Industry in Gyeonggi.” The proposed [...]