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- UN report introduces Korean government’s cloud use
- Dec 06, 2013
- The Korean government’s use of cloud computing was introduced as an excellent example in a UN report. The Information Economy Report 2013, published on December 3 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), highlighted Korea’s National Total Operating Plat...
- Nature You Meet in the Mountains: Flora & Fauna of Kore...
- Dec 06, 2013
- Flora & Fauna of Korea #3 Korea.net publishes a series of articles, “Nature You Meet in the Mountains,” about the peninsula’s mushrooms, insects, trees and herbs & flowers. Insects Name: 노란실잠자리 (noran siljamjari)Scientific name: Ceriagrion melanurum Selys Distribution: ...
- DNA barcode identifies insects
- Dec 02, 2013
- Korea has made a breakthrough in entomology. The nation has developed a DNA barcoding system that can identify insects using a sample of their DNA. The identification method works at any of the animal’s developmental stages, from egg and larva all the way through to pupa and imag...
- Nature You Meet in the Mountains: Flora & Fauna of Kore...
- Nov 28, 2013
- Flora & Fauna of Korea #2 Korea.net publishes a series of articles, “Nature You Meet in the Mountains,” about the peninsula’s mushrooms, insects, trees and herbs & flowers. This week, we bring you a dragonfly, another type of evergreen, an inedible mushroom and a perennia...
- Rare bird visits Dokdo
- Nov 27, 2013
- A rare bird has visited Dokdo, the easternmost outpost of Korea. The Ministry of Environment recently reported that it has found on one of the Dokdo Islands a rare bird, the Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), a type of finch. Never having appeared before in any official report,...
- Korea shares postharvest know-how
- Nov 27, 2013
- Korea is now sharing its know-how on how to keep tomatoes in good shape after they are picked with the release of a new technical manual. The Korean government’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) has published in ten Asian nations its “Postharvest Handling of Tomato in Asia”...
- Seoul holds int’l conference on paperless government
- Nov 26, 2013
- The Korean government held the u-Paperless International Conference 2013 at COEX in southern Seoul on November 22 in a step toward helping all governments around the world become paperless. Some 500 experts, both domestic and international, from government, academia and business,...
- Future of cloud computing discussed at int’l forum
- Nov 26, 2013
- Korea, China, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia discussed the future of cloud computing at the Asia Cloud International Forum 2013 on November 21 and 22 in Seoul. Representatives shared their cloud computing policies, strategies and future plans, and sought solutions to re...
- Science modeling website wins supercomputing award
- Nov 26, 2013
- A Korean advanced simulation software website has received the HPC Innovation Excellence Award at the sixth International Supercomputing Conference (SC’13) in Denver, the United States, on November 20. The website, Education-research Integration through Simulation On the Net...
- Korean research team unlocks whale DNA secrets
- Nov 26, 2013
- A Korean research team has presented the first ever findings on the minke whale genome. The world’s largest mammal, the whale, is assumed to have shifted its habitat from land to sea some 60 million years ago. As it did so, the mammal body had to adapt to an aquatic environment. ...
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