South Korea has succeeded in a ground combustion test for the first- and second-stage engines of its domestic space rocket, a related agency said Thursday. The 75-ton thrust engine test was conducted "smoothly" as planned a day earlier at the Naro Space Center located in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, according to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The 75-ton liquid engine is a core techn...

A state-run think tank on biotechnology said Thursday that it will breed as many as 3,000 nonhuman primates at a colony to be built by the end of next year in a bid to ensure a stable supply of the animals for the country's biomedical research. The state-run Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology held a groundbreaking ceremony to construct the Support Center for Nonhuman Primat...

Five homegrown drugs obtained the green light from local drug authorities for sale last year, health authorities said Friday, as major South Korean pharmaceutical companies expanded their spending on research and development. Health authorities approved the local release of Crystal Genomics' anti-inflammatory drug Acelex, Dong Wha Pharmaceuticals' Zabolante, and Dong-A ST's diabetes drug Suganon...

A released stork has hatched two chicks in the wild in the country's central region, marking the species' first natural breeding in the country, the Yesan municipal government said Monday, quoting a research center tasked with restoring the endangered bird. The Oriental White Stork Park in Yesan, a town in South Korea's central province of South Chungcheong, said its researchers confirmed the ch...

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is looking at the possibility of allowing limited use of medical instruments made through 3D printers before final government approval, hoping to change relevant regulations by November, officials said Monday. The attempt falls in line with the results from an inter-ministerial deregulation meeting last week where 3D-printed medical instruments were specified...

South Korean and U.S. officials gathered here Thursday to discuss cooperation in the cybersecurity sector as both countries are experiencing an increase in online trade. The seminar brought together about 100 government, business and academic participants from the two sides to discuss trends in cybersecurity in critical infrastructure sectors, such as finance and energy telecom. Under the New F...

South Korea and the United States have agreed to boost their partnership in the aerospace industry to a "considerable" level, a government ministry said Thursday, as the two sides are in related talks in Seoul. The allies opened the working-level meeting Wednesday, the second of its kind, to discuss how to deepen space cooperation. In the first-day plenary session, they "reached a considerable ...

South Korea and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement on space cooperation, paving the way for the allies' enhanced collaboration in the exploration of outer space. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert signed the "Framework Agreement for Cooperation in Aeronautics and the Exploration and Use of Airspace and Outer Space for Civil and Peaceful ...

South Korea and the United States will have talks this week on boosting their cooperation in space exploration, a government ministry said Tuesday, as South Korea is pushing for a lunar exploration project. The two sides are scheduled to hold the three-day meeting in Seoul and Daejeon, some 160 km south of the capital, starting on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future P...

A released stork has laid at least two eggs in the wild in the country's central region, increasing the prospects of the species' first natural breeding in the country, a research center tasked with restoring the endangered bird said Friday. The Oriental White Stork Park in Yesan, a town in South Korea's central province of South Chungcheong, said its researchers confirmed the eggs at a nest of ...

An excessive use of smartphones by teenagers may cause them to suffer from eye deviation, experts warned Tuesday, adding users must refrain from viewing displays for more than 30 minutes consecutively. Chonnam National University Hospital said it has found the possible relationship between convergent strabismus, a symptom in which a patient's eye moves inward eventually to become "cross-eyed," a...