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- Chungho Nais develops world's first water purifying cof...
- Jul 24, 2014
- Can a water purifier make coffee? Most people would think it impossible, but Chungho Nais' Whi Caffe can do it. The home appliance can not only purify tap water to produce cold water, hot water and ice, but it can also can make capsule coffee. It can make an espresso, Americ...
- Daewoo to build Arctic LNG carriers for Yamal project
- Jul 23, 2014
- A Korean shipbuilder recently won orders to build icebreaker natural gas tanker ships for use at Russia’s Yamal natural gas project, worth some KRW 5 trillion. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) won the tender to build nine icebreakers to transport liquefied natu...
- BBQ Chicken tailors menu for overseas markets
- Jul 23, 2014
- BBQ Chicken, one of the more popular chicken franchises, is going global with country-specific strategies. (photo: Jeon Han)The popularity of Korean-style fried chicken knows no bounds, being loved by a growing number of hungry fans from a wide assortment of national, ethnic and ...
- Korea tops connectivity, e-trade lists
- Jul 21, 2014
- Korea has recently been assessed as having the most developed international trading environment and Internet environment among the Group of Twenty (G20) economies, according to the “e-Trade Readiness Index,” published on July 15 by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a researc...
- Korea marks 10th anniversary of gas, oil production
- Jul 17, 2014
- Korea has been producing natural gas and oil for ten years now. The country first discovered a commercially viable gas field in 1998, in Block 6-1, named Donghae-1, in the East Sea. Six years later, the production of commercially-viable natural gas and oil begun, in July 2004, he...
- Small home appliances chosen by consumers & professiona...
- Jul 15, 2014
- What are the best small home appliances in Korea? A number of innovative products designed to greatly enhance convenience were selected at the 2014 Best Small Appliance Contest held by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy last month: Homelec's Cordless Massager, Cuckoo Elec...
- LG Display unveils flexible, transparent OLED displays
- Jul 14, 2014
- A display panel is rolled up like paper. It is also as transparent as glass. This is not a scene from a movie any more. In a world-first, LG Display has unveiled both an 18-inch flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) panel and an 18-inch transparent OLED panel, on July 10. ...
- Young Toys' transforming robot Tobot popular among kids
- Jul 11, 2014
- A transforming robot called "Tobot" is enjoying huge popularity among children in Korea. A three-dimensional animated series called "Tobot" is also one of the most popular TV programs here. Young Toys created the series and started manufacturing and distributing the related toys....
- Saudi hospital adopts Korean IT
- Jul 09, 2014
- Saudi Arabia will introduce a Korean-made hospital IT system dubbed Hospital Information Service (HIS). A local consortium comprising Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and SK Telecom recently signed a contract in which the two, over the next two years, will build a KRW 6...
- Korean firms top in smartphone patent applications
- Jun 27, 2014
- Korea’s two largest makers of high-tech -- Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics -- have made the most patent applications in the world in the fields of mobile phones and semiconductors, a report announced on June 23. Samsung also secured the largest number of patent application...
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