SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A groundbreaking new labeling technology that prevents forgery and counterfeiting by engraving information instead of using adhesive stickers has been developed by a team of researchers in South Korea, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Science and ICT. The research, led by professor Rho Junsuk of the Pohang [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will become the first Asian country to join Horizon Europe, the world’s largest multilateral research and innovation (R&I) funding program, Seoul’s science ministry said Monday. Science Minister Lee Jong-ho and his European counterpart, Iliana Ivanova, have reached an agreement on South Korea’s participation in the European Union’s [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of researchers from KAIST’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the BioProcess Engineering Research Center has made a groundbreaking achievement by developing a process to produce benzyl acetate, a key aromatic compound, using renewable carbon sources like glucose and microbes. This significant advancement was detailed in an [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy has announced the advancement of three groundbreaking research projects into the main research phase under the ‘Alchemist Project,’ aimed at securing future technologies capable of transforming industrial landscapes over the next decade. The projects, which were selected after rigorous evaluations, include research [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has announced that artificial muscle technology developed by a research team led by professor Kim Sang-ouk of the Department of New Material Engineering has been recognized as one of the “Top 10 Promising Technologies of 2023” by the International Union of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned lunar orbiter Danuri has released a comprehensive photographic map of the moon to mark the one-year anniversary of its mission, the science ministry said Tuesday. The mosaic map, compiled from polarized camera views captured over the past 250 days, encompasses both the front and back of [...]
CHANGWON, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has announced a groundbreaking development in agricultural pest control that leverages the core principle of microwave operation. On September 20, Dr. Jung Sunshin and his team at KERI revealed the creation of a ‘Microwave Penetration Heating Technology,’ which promises to effectively manage crop diseases [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean academic society said Wednesday the controversial room-temperature superconductor, known as LK-99, is “groundless” as its attempts to replicate its superconductivity have been unsuccessful. The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics published a white paper, saying that eight local laboratories have conducted reproduction studies in accordance with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown lunar monitoring payload, which will carry out science experiments as part of the U.S. moon exploration Artemis program, is ready to join the unmanned space mission next year, the science ministry said Monday. The lunar space environment monitor (LUSEM), developed by the state-run Korea Astronomy and [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed ultra-precision, large-scale location recognition technology capable of intricately controlling the movements of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and robots. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Tuesday they have created a wireless tag integrated with ultra-precision location [...]