The Korea Aerospace Administration held a ‘lunar orbit communication satellite industry meeting’ on the twentieth at its headquarters in Sacheon, Gyeongnam to assist home firms’ entry into the worldwide lunar exploration market. Courtesy of the Korea Aerospace Administration
■ The Korea Aerospace Administration introduced on the twentieth that it held a ‘lunar orbit communication satellite industry meeting’ at its Sacheon headquarters to assist home firms in search of to enter the worldwide lunar exploration market. The meeting was organized to take heed to opinions from Korean firms and talk about assist measures for demonstrating Earth-Moon communication and navigation applied sciences—core infrastructure for sustainable lunar exploration and establishing a lunar financial outpost—and for advancing into international markets. Seven home firms within the satellite and communications sectors with applied sciences for house optical communication and lunar exploration infrastructure participated.
■ The National Gwacheon Science Museum introduced on the twentieth that it’s going to launch a science communication lecture sequence titled ‘Scientists Who Cross the Line’ on May 23 underneath the theme ‘Ok-Science and Technology within the Era of an AI Great Transformation’. The program is designed as a discussion board to discover, along with related researchers, consultants, and authors, the brand new future opened by synthetic intelligence that has entered on a regular basis life and the challenges going through Korean science and expertise. It will probably be held eight occasions from May to November on the third or fourth Saturday of every month. Anyone can attend in particular person by reserving paid tickets prematurely through Naver, and participation is beneficial for ages 12 and older. Detailed info is on the market on the National Gwacheon Science Museum web site (sciencecenter.go.kr).
■ The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission introduced on the twentieth that it’s going to conduct particular inspections from May 22 to 29 to forestall accidents and failures at nuclear energy crops and different nuclear amenities in preparation for summer season pure disasters equivalent to heavy rain, typhoons, and lightning. In mild of local weather change, which is inflicting pure disasters to happen earlier and with larger depth, the fee moved up the inspection interval in comparison with earlier years to reply preemptively to summer season hazards. During these particular inspections, it would carefully study the adequacy of upkeep and administration of out of doors tools and instrumentation, equivalent to water consumption amenities and transformers, to forestall failures, and also will test whether or not nuclear operators’ emergency responses may be carried out shortly and systematically within the occasion of a pure catastrophe.
■ Innospace introduced on the twentieth that key space-related officers from Jeollanam-do Province and Goheung County visited the Innospace Cheongju Campus on the nineteenth to tour its launch car and satellite R&D and manufacturing amenities and talk about cooperation plans for the house industry. The go to was organized to straight assessment the launch car and satellite analysis, development, and manufacturing infrastructure of a non-public house firm in reference to the house industry development instructions being promoted by Jeollanam-do and Goheung County, and to listen to on-site company opinions and search collaboration alternatives. During the meeting, members continued discussions on revitalizing the regional house industry ecosystem and increasing public-private cooperation.
■ The Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) introduced on the twentieth that, in celebration of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, it visited Yongwon Elementary School in Jinhae-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam and held a ‘Visiting Electricity Classroom’ science tradition occasion for about 180 college students. This is KERI’s flagship science tradition dissemination program, wherein employees go to college students who’ve comparatively fewer alternatives to entry science tradition to reinforce their understanding and curiosity in electrical energy, power, and science and expertise. The program is run with participatory content material tailor-made to college students’ ranges to allow them to straight expertise and perceive science and expertise. At Yongwon Elementary, about 76% of all college students are from migrant backgrounds. KERI President Kim Nam-gyun said, “Science culture is a public asset that everyone should enjoy without discrimination.”
■ The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) introduced on the twentieth that the ‘950℃-class titanium aluminide (TiAl) alloy expertise for gasoline generators’ developed by a crew led by Principal Researcher Kim Seong-ung on the Extreme Materials Research Institute has been lastly chosen as a 2025 ‘world No.1 expertise’ via inside and exterior critiques and a public verification course of hosted by KIMS. The designation refers to world-leading or world-first elementary applied sciences owned by KIMS. To obtain this designation, the expertise should have secured home and worldwide patents and have confirmed data of expertise switch or industrial use, and it should go not less than 4 rounds of rigorous assessment, together with public verification. The alloy developed by Kim’s crew has demonstrated world-class heat-resistance efficiency.
■ The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) introduced on the twentieth that it held a commemorative in-house occasion for ‘World Metrology Day’. World Metrology Day was established to commemorate the Metre Convention signed in Paris, France, on May 20, 1875. It was additionally designated an official worldwide day by UNESCO in 2023. On this present day, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award, the National Research Council of Science & Technology Chairperson’s Award, and the KRISS President’s Award had been introduced to contributors who superior measurement science and measurement expertise.
■ The National Science Museum introduced on the nineteenth that its cumulative customer rely surpassed 36 million on the seventeenth. This means 1 million extra guests got here in about 9 months because it reached 35 million on August 7, 2025. The museum analyzed that the opening of the brand new hands-on physics exhibition corridor ‘Physics Lab’ has enormously contributed to the rise in guests. The 36 millionth customer was Kim OO, a second-grade pupil at Taejang Elementary School visiting from Wonju. National Science Museum Director Kwon Seok-min mentioned, “This result shows that the National Science Museum is transforming into a science and technology culture platform where science and technology are part of everyday life.”
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