President Yoon Suk-yeol and Vice President Kamala Harris met at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on April 25. There, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Science and ICT Minister Lee Jong-ho signed a joint statement for cooperation in fields including space science and exploration.The South
Huawei held the Striding Towards the Intelligent World Session at Global Analyst Summit 2023 on April 20, 2023. Peng Song, Huawei's President of ICT Strategy & Marketing, delivered the keynote speech titled Striding Towards the Intelligent World Through Continuous Innovation. The session attract
Huawei kicked off its 20th annual Global Analyst Summit (HAS) today in Shenzhen. The summit was attended by more than 1,000 industry analysts, financial analysts, key opinion leaders, and media representatives from around the world, who gathered to discuss the status of the ICT industry, including d
Two out of three South Koreans believe that the ROK-U.S. alliance has been the foundation of Korea’s economic growth.The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) announced on April 16 the results of a survey commemorating the 70th anniversary of the ROK-U.S. alliance. The survey was conducted on 1,004
According to China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency on April 13, President Xi visited LG Display’s factory and the R&D center for electric vehicle Aion under China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) as part of a tour of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of China on April 12.The Chinese political leaders
CJ Bioscience, an affiliate of CJ CheilJedang, announced on April 13 that it would present a poster of the results of preclinical trials on CJRB-101 at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2023, one of the world’s top three cancer societies. CJRB-101 is a new drug candidate (pipeline)
LG Energy Solution and Samsung SDI differed on a timeline for commercializing all-solid-state batteries which are considered to be the next generation of batteries. While LG Energy Solution believed that it was difficult to commercialize all-solid-state batteries even by 2030, Samsung SDI made it cl
A truly postbiotic product containing only postbiotics, which consumers have been eagerly awaiting in their interest in a healthy life, is about to be released in pharmacies.Based on a SCI-level paper by bereum Co., Ltd., formerly known as BeRM, a pharmacist academic symposium was held at Baropharm
The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on April 6 that the private and public sectors would invest at least 160 trillion won (US$121 billion) until 2027 in battery, semiconductor and display R&D.According to the government, the investment is divided into 156 trillion won (US$118 billion) from the
A Seoul National University research team has succeeded in 100 charges and discharges of an all-solid-state battery with a silicon wafer as a negative electrode.In general, lithium-ion rechargeable batteries for use in EVs use liquid electrolytes and thus are prone to fire and explosion. By contrast
The Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning announced that the number of South Korea’s SCI papers was 83,680 in 2021, up 8.9 percent from the previous year. It came in 12th with a global share of 2.4 percent.The 2021 list was topped by China, which rose to the top in 2020 and
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) is holding a science and technology event from March 28 to 31 at the KHNP headquarters and the facilities of nuclear power-related organizations by inviting experts from countries that are operating nuclear power plants.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Samsung Electronics will set up semiconductor contract departments to be run as integrated bachelor’s and master’s courses at three science and technology institutes outside the Seoul metropolitan area. The plan aims to strengthen human resource ecosystems at the national level and contribute to the
CJ CheilJedang’s CJ Bioscience announced on March 27 that it has signed an agreement to acquire promising drug candidates and platform technologies from 4D Pharma, a UK- and Ireland-based microbiome company.The newly introduced drug candidates total nine, targeting solid cancer, digestive diseases,
Nvidia, TSMC, Synopsys and ASML have agreed to cooperate for the development of 2 nm chip technology.Taiwan’s TSMC is speeding up the development of 2 nm or more advanced technology for a state-of-the-art foundry process in tandem with Nvidia, Synopsys, and ASML, according to foreign media outlets o
Space launch vehicle startup Innospace’s Hanbit-TLV was successfully launched on March 19 from the Alcantara Space Center in Brazil.The purpose of the launch is to test the performance of the hybrid rocket engine with a thrust of 15 tons that Innospace will apply to its Hanbit-Nano, a two-stage smal
A joint research team of Pohang University of Science and Technology and Sogang University has developed a silicon anode active material that is more stable than existing ones. According to the team, the developed material has at least 10 times the capacity of graphite if it is used in rechargeable
A system of robots that harvest and transport crops on their own without human assistance has been developed for use in agricultural facilities such as smart farms.The research team under Choi Tae-yong, principal researcher at the AI Robot Research Division’s Department of Robotics and Mechatronics
The Life Science Division of LG Chem is expected to rack up 1.2 trillion won (US$915 million) in sales this year backed by the growth of the Chronic Disease Department and the Special Disease Department.The Life Science Division’s sales for 2022 are estimated at 910 billion won (US$694 million) on a
Samsung Electronics laid out a plan to build a semiconductor cluster in the town of Namsa in Yongin, South Korea, on March 15. The announcement of the plan shows the Korean tech giant’s objective of not losing its leadership in a global semiconductor hegemony war. It is also meaningful in that the c