SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will quickly overhaul its emergency messaging system in the wake of this week’s erroneous alert in an effort to prepare against future missile launches by North Korea, officials said Thursday. Seoul residents woke up Wednesday morning to air raid sirens and a mobile phone alert advising them [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to complete an 18.05 billion-won (US$13.7 million) project to develop and deploy a space environment forecasting and warning system by 2024, the state arms procurement agency said Friday The project is designed to alert the military of changes in the space environment, like a solar flare, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has further beefed up its early warning monitoring system on thousands of core industrial items in a bid to prevent the recurrence of a problem like the abrupt supply crunch of urea solution late last year, according to the country’s foreign ministry Sunday. The ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Seocho District announced Monday that a new smart motion sensor warning system had been set up at the crosswalk near Shindong Elementary School to improve children’s safety. The new system, set up this month, consists of a camera, LED monitor, speaker, and a pole. The three cameras attached [...]