SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's science ministry said Friday its new midsized satellite has started traveling to Kazakhstan for a launch this year as the country seeks to develop homegrown...
07:00 Jan. 22
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's science ministry said Wednesday it has started manufacturing a space telescope in a joint project with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
12:00 Jan. 06
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said Sunday it will spend 5.8 trillion won (US$5.3 billion) on science and information and communication technology (ICT) research this year as the country fos...
12:00 Jan. 03
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Yonhap) -- U.S. biotech company Moderna has said it will begin delivering its coronavirus vaccine to South Korea in May.
The company made the announcement Thursday (U.S. time) whi...
11:48 Jan. 01
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Yonhap) -- The value of South Korea's space industry stood at 3.89 trillion won (US$3.5 billion) last year, a report showed Tuesday.
The industry's size slightly dipped from that...
12:00 Dec. 29
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said Tuesday it decided to delay the launch of its first locally built space launch vehicle by eight months due to complications in its assembly.
The Minis...
11:00 Dec. 29
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said Tuesday it will invest 520 billion won (US$470 million) in biotechnology next year as part of efforts to develop treatment and vaccines for COVID-19.
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12:00 Dec. 22
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in said Monday the government will spend a part of South Korea's record amount of science-related budget next year for the development of a COVID-19 va...
15:28 Dec. 21
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's video game market was the fifth largest in the world in 2019, falling one position from the previous year, a report showed Monday.
The country's video ga...
11:13 Dec. 21
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's bourse operator on Thursday decided to grant the scandal-ridden drugmaker Kolon TissueGene Inc. a one-year period to improve its management.
In a meeting...
19:32 Dec. 17
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Wednesday released satellite imagery showing the movement of fine dust from China to South Korea in the latest scientific evidence that China is partly to ...
14:30 Nov. 18
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SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Yonhap) -- Video game giants Microsoft Corp. and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. are eyeing an unclaimed territory in their latest battle for global console sup...
10:59 Nov. 12
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said Wednesday it targets doubling the country's current number of companies to be spun off from research institutes to 2,000 by 2025 and creating over 6,000 ...
09:43 Oct. 28
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SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-min has become the top scorer in the Premier League, with his league-leading eighth...
10:49 Oct. 27
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-min has become the top scorer in the Premier League, with his league-leading eighth goal giving his team a tight 1-0 victory.
In an away ...
09:42 Oct. 27
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Monday its researchers have found how the novel coronavirus destroys lung cells by developing a "mini-...
13:00 Oct. 26
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that the government will invest 10 trillion won (US$8.8 billion) into South Korea's "smart city" project nationwide by 2025, as the co...
17:28 Oct. 22
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Yonhap) -- Online ads for unauthorized pharmaceutical sales over the internet have increased substantially in recent years, according to a lawmaker Thursday.
The number of reporte...
09:00 Oct. 01
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is on track for its first lunar mission, with its first launch of a lunar orbiter slated for the second half of 2022, the country's space research institute ...
12:00 Sep. 27
Sept. 27
1983 -- Pope John Paul II visits Seoul and elevates to sainthood 103 Korean Catholic martyrs who were executed during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).
1988 -- Canadian sprinter Ben ...
14:00 Sep. 26