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S. Korea launches 4th telecommunications satellite

The commercial satellite, named the Mugunghwa-7, lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at Kourou in French Guiana, aboard a rocket made by France-based Arianespace at 7:27 p.m. (local time), said the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and KT Sat, a satellite service arm of the country's leading fixed-line operator KT Corp.

Science | 2017-05-05 15:14

Chief executives with medical licenses

A specialist in a field is believed to usually fail to pull off in another sector. However, there are a number of people whose jobs were treating patients and switched to running a company and they stand out in their new area. It is Kyobo Life Insurance Chairman Shin Chang-jae that is leading the pack in the nation’s business circle. Shin was a promising obstetrician and univ...

Science | 2017-05-02 17:10

South Korea to launch multifunctional satellite in 2021

An estimated 310 billion won ($217.8 million) will be spent on the project. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) will develop the rocket and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) will develop the satellite, according to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning on Monday. The institutes signed a contract on April 27.

Science | 2017-05-01 14:47

Robots come closer to daily life

Robots, which were once used only in massive manufacturing plants with automated assembly lines, have come closer to our daily lives to enable new possibilities in the services industry. According to industry officials, Tuesday, rapid-growing robotics technology in various fields has already broken time-honored beliefs that there are human-only abilities like hospitality for ...

Science | 2017-04-25 09:40

Korean MIT student fiber for neural signal

Park Seong-jun, a Korean graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has developed a fiber that can deliver neural signals to the brain through the spinal cord, according to the institute, Thursday. The fiber is expected to be used to improve functionality of artificial limbs. Park and his research team said they will make the fiber more stable and better...

Science | 2017-03-30 13:56

S. Korea eyes 'swarming drone warfare'

The South Korean Army is considering using drones equipped with explosives, an army official said Sunday. The army plans to carry out extensive research into “military swarming, which is already in operational use in the U.S., China and Russia, to our ground and naval operations,” the official said. The battlefield tactic uses dispersed combat units to attack designated targe...

Science | 2017-03-12 15:27

Korean physicists observe 'time crystal'

Two Korean physicists and their research team observed an exotic atomic state called “time crystal.” The theoretical concept has been realized through experiments for the first time in the world five years after it was suggested. Choi Joon-hee and Choi Soon-won, Korean graduate students at Harvard University, have worked with researchers including Mikhail Lukin and Renate Lan...

Science | 2017-03-09 17:40

Hanwha Group continues recruiting young talented scientists

Hanwha Group will hold the Hanwha Science Challenge, a contest helping youths develop and strengthen their creativity in science. It will receive applications until April 2 from high school students accompanied by their teachers who want to participate in the annual contest. Now in its seventh year, the Hanwha Science Challenge is a part of the group's corporate social respon...

Science | 2017-02-27 16:56

Korean scientists add value to 'dream substance'

Researchers here have developed a synthesis method for a new type of graphene that will benefit new applications including seawater desalination, according to Samsung Electronics and Sungkyunkwan University, Sunday. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) researchers and Sunkyunkwan University’s advanced materials science and engineering professors have jointly researched the original technology to synthesize the large-area monatomic amorphous graphene allotrope on germanium semiconductor wafers.

Science | 2017-02-12 15:44

Research reveals Koreans' genetic roots

Genome analysis of human DNA from the Neolithic era has revealed for the first time that modern Korean people have genetic roots with an ancient people from the Russian far east and southern Asia, according to Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Wednesday. The Genomics Institute of UNIST’s biomedical engineering department, international archeologists,...

Science | 2017-02-02 04:00

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