ULSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Removed from their home of seven years after the appearance of an unexpected predator, a family of geese are back where they belong on the campus grounds of UNIST, a science and technology research university located in the southeastern city of Ulsan. Originally a family of seven, only four [...]
ULSAN, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Though whale meat that is illicitly procured and sold is thought of negatively by South Korean consumers, they buy it without having the means of confirming whether the meat has been gotten through legal channels.” Bradley Tatar, a professor at UNIST and the first non-Korean scholar to analyze Ulsan’s [...]
ICHEON, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Human players handily beat robots with artificial intelligence (AI) in a curling game on Thursday, despite the machines demonstrating evolving skill levels. At a competition hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, two robots named Curly exhibited considerable skill in placing stones on target and showed the ability [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Instead of getting defensive, a receptive stance entailing an apologetic attitude is a more efficient approach for companies that are under fire and are subsequently attempting to cool public outrage on social media, research has found. A research team from UNIST examined Twitter data for 12 companies that were [...]
ULSAN, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team at South Korea’s UNIST has developed a new type of lithium-ion battery that can be printed, bent, cut and even put through flames without leaving it worse for wear. The technology has been named the “flexible/shape-versatile bipolar all-solid state lithium-ion battery” by its creators. According to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Contact lenses that light up or turn off depending on the wearer’s blood glucose levels — high blood glucose levels can be an indicator of diabetes — have been developed by a joint research team from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and Sungkyunkwan University. Named [...]
ULSAN, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) unveiled today a model for the U-Loop, its next generation ultra high-speed public transport mode at this year’s forum for public transport policy and technology. The first model for U-Loop, which is a hyperloop created by UNIST, was revealed Thursday [...]
Visitors to Dongdaemun Design Plaza from September 21 through 27 will get to take a look at toilets of the future. (Image: UNIST) ULSAN, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Visitors to Dongdaemun Design Plaza from September 21 through 27 will get to take a look at toilets of the future. Named Walden 1.0 and [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team led by professor of creative design engineering Park Yeong-woo at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has developed a smart table clock that receives information from computers or smartphones and then informs users of their schedule. The UNIST team received a thesis award at [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Ulsan is set to become a new R&D hub for South Korea’s battery industry. According to city officials on Wednesday, construction of UNIST’s Battery R&D Center will wrap up in March. The 17.7-billion-won ($15 million) center was funded by both UNIST (2.7 billion won) and the government (15 billion [...]