Institute makes world’s 1st wheel that rolls over obstacles
Song Sung-Hyuk (right), a senior researcher at the Advanced Robotics Center of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, and...
KDCA highlights mRNA vaccine for COVID-19’s boosted effect
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) on Sept. 1 said it identified the regulation process of...
Solar device developed with US to go into space in October
This is the coronagraph jointly developed under the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment by Korea and the U.S. (Korea Aerospace Administration)
Nuclear fusion project gets KRW 1.2T to harness ‘artificial sun’
The KSTAR is a magnetic fusion device for superconducting nuclear fusion at the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) in...
Seoul’s mass transit to adopt self-driving buses from July 1
The Seoul Metropolitan Government on June 25 said it will incorporate next month the Seoul Autonomous Bus into...
High-speed rail KTX to see first export via Uzbekistan deal
President Yoon Suk Yeol (left) and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on June 14 sign a joint statement on...
‘Tagless’ payments for subway, bus fares coming next year
A commuter goes through a fare gate without swiping his transportation card under the "tagless system." (Seoul Metropolitan...
Nation’s first nanosatellite NEONSAT-1 enters normal orbit
The Ministry of Science and ICT on April 24 announced that the nation's first homegrown nanosatellite, New-space Earth...
World IT Show in Seoul shows AI-made innovations in daily life
The annual World IT Show, the country's largest information and communications exhibition, opened on April 17 for a three-day run at...
Space industry to get almost KRW 1T in investment this year
Nuri (KSLV-II), a space launch vehicle developed entirely with domestic technology, on May 25 last year blasts off...
New gov’t council pledges to make nation top 3 AI power
Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong Ho (center) on April 4 speaks at the launching ceremony and inaugural...
Nation tops OECD’s digital gov’t index for 2nd straight time
The nation last year topped the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's digital government index for the second time...
Korea Pavilion at CES 2024 to be biggest in event’s history
This year's Consumer Electronics Show of the U.S., the world's largest trade fair for household electronics and information and...
Research team pioneers new inland route for Antarctic region
A scientific exploration team has arrived at a candidate site for a new Antarctic inland research base, securing a crucial inland route...
World’s first late-night self-driving bus debuts in Seoul
The world's first late-night self-driving bus starts service in the wee hours of Dec. 4 in Seoul. (Seoul Metropolitan...
Nation’s digital tech competitiveness hits record-high 6th
Korea this year ranks sixth in digital technology competitiveness among 64 countries surveyed, the nation's highest rank in the...
Self-driving buses in Seoul to have distance raised to 4.8 km
The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Nov. 10 will extend the distance traveled by self-driving buses around Cheonggyecheon Stream from 3.2...
Nation’s first land observation satellite marks second year
This photo taken by Compact Advanced Satellite 500-1 (CAS500-1) shows the area around Gyeongbokgung Palace and Cheong Wa...
5 high schoolers sweep golds to win int’l physics contest
A team of five high school students has won this year's International Physics Olympiad in Tokyo, Japan, with every member...
Country’s 1st robot conductor to debut with nat’l orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TlpoZbi8S7c
By Hong Angie
Video = National Orchestra of Korea's official YouTube channel
