Provided by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies
■ The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST) held a joint discussion board with the National Assembly at 3 p.m. on the seventh beneath the theme “Re-examining Korea’s Science and Technology Through Science Day.” The present Science Day, April 21, marks the day the Ministry of Science and Technology (now the Ministry of Science and ICT) was established in 1967. This previous September, Assemblyman Byun Jae-il of the Democratic Party of Korea launched a ‘Resolution Urging a Change to the Date of Science Day,’ proposing August 5 as the brand new date. To forestall the unfold of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the discussion board was held with out an viewers and livestreamed on-line. Professor Kim Geun-bae of the Department of Science Studies at Jeonbuk National University introduced on ‘The Origin of Science Day and the Movement to Build a Scientific Joseon,’ and Professor Park Hyun-mo of Yeoju Institute of Technology, who additionally serves because the director of the King Sejong Institute of Leadership, introduced on ‘The Process and Significance of King Sejong’s Establishment of Standard Time.’
■ The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, collectively with the National Academy of Medicine of Korea and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, will host a web-based discussion board at 3 p.m. on the eighth on the subject ‘Influenza Co-infection through the COVID-19 Pandemic.’ Unlike the primary and second waves, the present third wave of COVID-19 in Korea is spreading extra quickly as circumstances improve among the many extremely lively younger and middle-aged inhabitants through varied transmission hyperlinks, and issues about co-infection are rising because the nation enters the winter flu season. The discussion board will characteristic intensive discussions on the affect of the influenza virus on COVID-19 an infection, the human physique’s response to co-infection, and the effectiveness of vaccinations. The discussion board will probably be livestreamed on-line (seek for ‘한국과총’ on YouTube, KakaoTV, and NaverTV) and will embrace real-time interplay the place consultants reply questions from the feedback part.
■ The Ministry of Science and ICT introduced that it held the ‘Meeting on Measures to Improve the Financial Management System of Government-Funded Research Institutes’ collectively with the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) on the seventh to debate methods to broaden secure analysis funding for science and expertise government-funded analysis institutes. During the assembly, initiatives for bettering the monetary effectivity of those institutes and guaranteeing secure funds help had been introduced. Measures to deal with the difficulties of establishments with a low proportion of presidency funding, such because the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), had been additionally mentioned. Based on the discussions, the Ministry of Science and ICT plans to finalize and implement the measures after consulting with related ministries and gathering opinions from the analysis group, together with the government-funded institutes. Meanwhile, the assembly was held along with the one hundred and fortieth Board of Directors’ Meeting of the National Research Council of Science & Technology and was attended by board members, together with the appearing chairman of the NST, ex-officio authorities administrators, and appointed private-sector administrators.
■ The Presidential Council on Intellectual Property, along with 16 associated ministries together with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korean Intellectual Property Office, and the Ministry of Justice, has revealed the ‘2019 Annual Report on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Protection Policies.’ The report has been revealed yearly since 2013. This 12 months’s version provides the mental property safety actions of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and additionally covers points from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In the commercial property rights part, it summarizes help for technique growth in promising future applied sciences like healthcare and blockchain. In the copyright part, it introduces the crackdown on copyright regulation violators and the response to unlawful reproductions through a particular judicial police pressure. Additionally, it introduces the newly established ‘Win-Win Mediation Committee’ for swift mediation and arbitration of expertise infringement circumstances akin to commerce secret theft, design infringement, and product configuration imitation, in addition to the enforcement towards infringement of plant selection safety rights for brand spanking new plant varieties. The report will be downloaded from the council’s web site (www.ipkorea.go.kr).
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