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11 March 2008: The man intended to be the first South Korean in space has been grounded for violating security protocol and will be replaced by a female biotechnology engineer, the science ministry said on Monday. Read more

3 March 2008: S Korean scientist caught faking breakthrough research. Read more

25 February 2008: China and South Korea are climbing up the ranks of the world's leading inventors, according to figures released by the U.N. patent agency. Read more

25 February 2008: China to test deep-sea submersible: report. Read more

22 February 2008: The European Commission is set to inject a further EUR 12 million into an initiative which provides scientists in the Asia-Pacific region with high speed internet access to enable their participation in international research projects. Read more

28 January 2008: A top state-run science college in South Korea has forged a research partnership with the U.S. space agency NASA, the school said Sunday. Read more

14 January 2008: South Korea has decided to terminate the eight-year mission of its first multipurpose satellite, which controllers lost contact with last month, the space agency said Sunday. Read more

21 November 2007: South Korean space officials said Tuesday they plan to send an unmanned probe to the moon's orbit in 2020 and land a probe on the moon's surface in 2025. Read more

19 November 2007: A draft statement obtained by AFP on Saturday said the leaders will also throw their support behind a UN plan as the "core mechanism" for tackling global warming. Read more

13 November 2007: South Korean scientists said Monday they used human embryonic stem cells to treat mice suffering from a vascular disease, in an experiment that could lead to cures for strokes and other ailments. Read more 24 October 2007: Unusually high levels of a radioactive noble gas detected in northern Canada are final confirmation that North Korea detonated a nuclear device underground in October 2006, say UN researchers. Read more

16 October 2007: Kyosemi Corporation has developed a highly efficient round solar cell. The Sphelar is a registered trademark of Kyosemi Corp. The advantages of the Sphelar is its unique ability to capture the sun in all directions and utilize indirect and diffuse light. Read more

13 July 2007: Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Read more

11 July 2007: "We signed a memorandum of understanding with a team of researchers at Seoul National University last month to produce cloned drug-sniffing dogs," a customs spokesman told AFP. Read more

10 July 2007: The ceremony for unveiling the nameplate of the China-Korea Nanotechnology Research Center was held on the afternoon of July 2, in Beijing. Read more

5 July 2007: A workshop on ubiquitous healthcare, sponsored by HealthAgents, an EU funded project, will take place on 12 November in Busan, South Korea. The event coincides with the Sixth International Semantic Web Conference. Read more

12 June 2007: Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, along with colleagues at George Mason University and Kwangwoon University in Korea, have fabricated a memory device that combines silicon nanowires with a more traditional type of data-storage. read more

3 May 2007: Claims that a wolf has been successfully cloned are solid, an internal university investigation has found. A group at Seoul National University (SNU) reported in the March 2007 issue of Cloning and Stem Cells that they had cloned two wolf pups. read more

10 April 2007: Austria and South Korea have signed a declaration on intensifying collaboration between universities and technical colleges within current university networks. read more

28 March 2007: South Korean team claims world's first cloned wolves. Born eighteen months ago, the findings have not been published because of the team's implication in stem cell fraud. read more

23 February 2007: Flash memory has been rumored to soon hit the limitations of nature, making it impossible for the technology to scale beyond 32 nm or 22 nm structures. Korean researchers now say they have developed 10 nm semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes that could breathe new life into Flash memory cards. read more

14 February 2007: Chemists in South Korea have created hollow molecular spheres by polymerising a simple, flat building block without the help of any scaffolding or template to create the three-dimensional shape. read more

12 February 2007: South Korea will strive to become a global leader in science and technology by 2010, says the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. read more

26 January 2007: Poodle cloned in South Korea: report. Seoul National University researchers create another dog species. read more

23 January 2007: South Korean quarantine authorities are preparing to slaughter more than 270,000 poultry after an outbreak of a virulent strain of bird flu. read more

17 January 2007: China, Japan and South Korea have held their first ever trilateral science ministers' meeting, resulting in an agreement to strengthen ties in areas including the environment and energy. read more

15 January 2007: South Korean scentists said Friday they are closer to understanding how a protein found in both primates and humans blocks the progression of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the apes. read more

22 December 2006: President Roh Moo-hyun and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko yesterday agreed to strengthen bilateral ties in the area of aerospace technology. read more

20 December 2006: More cloned puppies have been born to the lab formerly associated with South Korean cloner Woo Suk Hwang. read more

19 December 2006: A team of South Korean scientists once led by disgraced stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk said on Monday they had produced three cloned copies of a female Afghan hound. read more

13 December 2006: In an attempt to determine what factors make one nanoparticle better than another at targeting tumors, a team of investigators in Korea have conducted a systematic tumor-targeting study of a variety of self-assembling nanoparticles. read more

30 November 2006: The leading journal Science has been advised to modify its review procedures to identify and weed out papers based on fraudulent research results, in a report on the publication in the journal of papers by the now discredited South Korean stem cell scientist Woo Suk Hwang. read more

29 November 2006: Simply trusting that scientists are telling the truth is not enough when it comes to vetting blockbuster research. That appears to be the bottom line of an independent committee that reported today that Science could have more aggressively examined two papers on stem cells that turned out to be fake. Although the committee found that editors followed established procedures in reviewing the papers, it concluded that additional procedures would have made the fraud easier to detect. The committee, appointed by Science's top editors to review the journal's handling of papers from Woo Suk Hwang and his colleagues in South Korea and the United States, combed through reviewers' comments, editors' notes, and other documents to assess how Science handled the high-profile--and, as it turned out, largely fabricated--submissions. read more

27 November 2006: Korea on alert for fatal bird flu. The government's confirmation of a fatal type of bird flu that broke out last week has led to the slaughter of thousands of chickens and hundreds of dogs and pigs near the affected poultry farm in the southwest of the country. read more

27 November 2006: More than 100 homes offering smart technology have just been built in South Korea and another 30,000 are planned. read more

27 November 2006: The European Union signed two scientific cooperation agreements with one the world's fastest growing research powers - the Republic of Korea - on 22 November. The science and technology (S&T) agreement will enable researchers from the EU and South Korea to participate in one another's research programmes and protects intellectual property rights (IPR), while a specific agreement on fusion energy research will promote collaboration in fusion research programmes. This is intended to complement work within the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, to which both the EU and South Korea are party. read more

27 November 2006: Korea plans to invest $14.3 billion in biotechnology research and industrialization over the next 10 years to create a $60 billion market by 2016. read more

17 Nov 2006: Biotechnology experts from South Korea have started to focus their studies on developing transgenic pigs, which could be used as organ, cell or tissue donors and aid research on human illnesses. Read more

15 November 2006: South Korean prosecutors finished questioning a disgraced stem cell scientist on Tuesday, asking him in court if he had receipts for his team's successful cloning of a dog and failed attempt to clone a mammoth. read more

13 November 2006: Smoking, drinking lower odds of surviving cancer. South Korean study highlights the need for better education to improve health behaviours of those most at risk. read more

7 November 2006: Scientists are successfully using nanotechnology to regenerate damaged organs. Researchers in the US and South Korea used tiny nanotubes to prompt neuron regeneration in brain-damaged rats. And another group in the US successfully used self assembling nanoparticles to restore heart function in mice that had had heart attacks. read more

6 November 2006: South Korea is well known as a nation of broadband addicts and soon the speeds people enjoy at home will be available while they are out and about. read more

20 October 2006: South Korean scientists said Thursday they have developed a new genetically altered strain of virus which is highly efficient in targeting and killing cancer cells. read more

10 October 2006: Using temperature-sensitive, lipid- and polymer-based nanoparticles with a polymer coating, researchers in Korea have created an anticancer drug delivery vehicle that may provide a significant boost to the therapeutic efficacy of anticancer agents, particularly when used in conjunction with hyperthermia. This work is reported in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. read more

13 September 2006: The European Union and the Republic of Korea have formally signed a cooperation agreement on Galileo, the European satellite navigation programme. read more

11 September 2006: Last Saturday, South Korea hosted a 3.5-kilometre running race with the aim of selecting the fittest participants for its fledgling space programme. But although 10,000 people had been invited to prove their worth by running the course in under 20 minutes, only 3,300 people bothered to show up. read more

6 September 2006: South Korea, concerned about lead and cadmium contamination, will recall vast quantities of food grains and produce cultivated in areas near abandoned mines. read more

1 September 2006: Samsung, one of the world's largest appliance and electronic manufacturers recently put to the test its technologically advanced Silver Nano washing machines within hospitals in the Emirates. Read more

1 September 2006: Scholars from Two Koreas Meet on Nanotech. Read more

25 August 2006: Samsung to set up second plant in India. Read more

23 August 2006: South Korea's first dual-use commercial and military communications satellite is now in space after a successful blastoff from a floating platform in the central Pacific Ocean. Read more

23 August 2006: Samsung Electronics, the world's third-largest cell phone vendor, will start to market a handset this week, which can hoard more than 1,500 music files. Read more

22 August 2006: SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea's electronics giant, said Monday it has developed a 70-inch high-definition liquid crystal display (LCD). Read more

21 August 2006: Professor Ihm's new compound could provide key to making hydrogen-based cars. read more

16 August 2006: A team of South Korean scientists has found a revolutionary way to obtain energy from the deep sea, while disposing of the harmful air pollutant carbon dioxide. read more

3 July 2006: The 9th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms (ISBGMO) will be held on Jeju Island, Korea from 24-29 September 2006. The programme explores the relationship between GM biosafety research and environmental risk assessment. Registering by fax is recommended and the submission of contributed poster abstracts are due by July 31^st 2006. read more

22 June 2006: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise proposed digital content delegation to Korea sometime in September or October.

22 June 2006: The Foundation for Research Science and Technology proposes an ICT (wireless physical layer) delegation to Korea in July. The International Director of ETRI in Korea has proposed a visit to FRST on 5-13 July. FRST will also visit Korea in September for an anniversary review of signing its MoU. Lastly, FRST will send a delegation on drug discovery from natural products to Korea, 1-5 December.

9 June 2006: The tidal flats along this stretch of South Korea's south-west coast are drying out and endangered birds like the spoon-billed sandpiper have fled toward the Yellow Sea in search of food. read more