By Sunny Um WIRED KoreaWhen it comes to saving money, shopping at second-hand marketplaces is one way, be it with or without the spread of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. But more people are buying and selling used items as the virus is restricting their movement.Second-hand marketplace apps prov

By Park Jun-young WIRED KoreaProtecting a hydroelectric power plant from cyber-attacks is critical for unhindered power supply to homes and factories. Even more critical is keeping nuclear power plants from such attacks, which could lead to radioactive contamination as well as a disruption in power

By Jenny Lee WIRED KoreaIt was a chilly evening in 1935, when a seemingly wild and untamed animal suddenly appeared before residents of a village in Namwon, North Jeolla Province. Convinced that it was a hungry tiger foraging for food, the residents started spreading the news to their neighbors to b

By Jenny Lee WIRED KoreaA video conference with life-sized holograms of business partners, a vehicle that operates without a driver on board, a factory equipped with machinery that detects anomalies and repairs itself on its own, and a healthcare professional who diagnoses diseases, offers treatment

By Sunny Um WIRED KoreaAs the spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, crashes their wedding plans, many couples in Korea are either canceling or postponing them. Many weddings scheduled for Spring are postponed to the second half of the year, according to a Joongang Daily report. But thanks to

By Sunny Um WIRED KoreaSong Seung-hwan, a multitalented entertainer, began to feel uneasy with his eyesight, with objects appearing out of focus, in late March 2018. The blurry vision was found to be not a passing, one-off event. To his chagrin, it was getting worse. Still worse, the eye doctors he

By Jenny Lee WIRED KoreaIn Korea, a new type of fruit is making its way into homes, satisfying sugar cravings of many people: sugar-tasting tomatoes.These tomatoes are widely known in Korea as either “tomango,” a compound word of tomato and mango, or “danmato,” of dan, a Korean word for sweet, and t

By Jim Dator The University of HawaiiThe ongoing coronavirus pandemic provides a great opportunity for Korea to fundamentally rethink its future. No. It is more than an “opportunity”. It is a vital necessity.For 50 years, Korea has diligently, single-mindedly, and very successfully followed a model

By Seo Jeong-yun and Sunny Um WIRED KoreaWhat would it be like to turn each moment of a soccer game into digital data for analyses, as in the game Football Manager? In Football Manager, a game player uses such data in seeking an optimal formation for a match and in deciding whether or not to replace

By Jerome Kim The International Vaccine InstitutePrior to the American entry into World War I, President Woodrow Wilson argued that the war should end with peace without victory. We often paint the current COVID-19 pandemic in the metaphors of war, and when we look at the end of the World War COVID-

By Jenny Lee WIRED KoreaSouth Korea has always been among the first movers when it comes to embracing new technologies. But in the current “arms race” for immersive technology supremacy, the country is lagging behind, far behind other countries.That is the view of Woo Woon-tack, one of the country’s

By Sunny Um WIRED KoreaIt is a dark night in a city set in a near-future society. The light from a window of an apartment shines through the darkness. It is the light projected from a computer turned on by a man with a carelessly trimmed mustache. Sitting before the computer, he seems rather anxious

By Jenny Lee WIRED KoreaIn 1944, when the end of World War II was on the horizon, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was lost in thoughts about America’s next era. Having guided the nation through the Great Depression and the war, he wanted to plot a new path to establish and maintain true economi

By Sunny Um WIRED Korea When Kang Kim-koo, a public service worker, learned that at-home genetic tests could show a person’s ancestry, he wondered if he had any genetic heritage rarely found among Koreans, such as Siberian.To satisfy his curiosity, Kang ordered a tiny tube from an at-home genetic te

By Park Jun-young WIRED KoreaSK Telecom is asking fundamental questions about itself and its business strategy. They include why employees have to spend an hour or so commuting to the headquarters in Seoul’s busiest urban core and why senior managers make policy decisions on services to be consumed

By Park Jun-young WIRED Korea The Korean government’s plan to turn a virus-triggered economic crisis into an opportunity to make investments in technology and create jobs is taking off, as the process of funding is put in motion.The government is set to submit a 35.3 trillion won supplementary budge

By Jenny Lee WIRED KoreaEveryone knows at this point that the future of mobility is electric. The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is already happening and at a much faster pace than anyone predicted. But the EV uptake is expected to be further accelerated in the years to come, to the point where

By Sunny Um Wired Korea It brought joy to millions of internet users worldwide. It did not have a body but was seen ubiquitously in the world of the internet. It was once supported by many internet browsers. Now, Adobe Flash Player is awaiting its final day, slated for the last day of this year. Ado

By Park Jun-young WIRED Korea SK Telecom believes it is capable of measuring the creditworthiness of small online vendors better than credit-rating agencies, as the mobile network carrier provides what it calls “seller score” service for its business partners. On May 20, SK Telecom rolled out electr