South Korea's first domestic supersonic fighter "Air Control" (F-5E/F) was developed by Korean Air and successfully made its first flight on September 9, 1982. Since the beginning of 2 1 century, Korean aviation industry has also developed by leaps and bounds. In July 2009, South Korea first developed the domestic transport helicopter "Surion". 20 1 1, the "unmanned intelligent aircraft" was developed for the first time. In May of the same year, FA-50, a light attack aircraft developed by Korean aerospace industry on the basis of T-50 supersonic trainer, made its first flight successfully. T-50 supersonic trainer is exported to Indonesia, which makes Korea the sixth country in the world to export supersonic aircraft.
Due to the shortage of human resources in Korea, the development of robots is highly valued in Korea. The South Korean government plans to make South Korea one of the three major robot powers in the world by 20 18 years ago. In 20 10, South Korea announced the development strategy of service robot industry, and listed service robots as the development focus. The Korean government also plans to make the penetration rate of robots reach one household in South Korea by 2020. With the strong support of the Korean government, South Korea has produced robot pilots, robot prison guards and robot teachers.
The number of industrial robots in Korea ranks third in the world. As of 20 13, the number of robots made in Korea has ranked fourth in the world. South Korea has mastered the world's leading core technology in the field of nano-scale handling robot system and high-density innovative manufacturing engineering robot. In 20 13, the institute of bacterial robotics of jeonnam university in Korea developed the world's first nano-robot ("in vivo doctor"), which can diagnose and treat high-risk cancers such as colorectal cancer, breast cancer, gastric cancer and liver cancer. Hyundai Robot, Robusta Robot, Oriental Robot, Douxing Robot and Alpa Robot are the five most influential robot manufacturers in Korea, among which Hyundai Robot has a market share of over 50% in Korea.
As early as 1983, South Korea promulgated and implemented the landmark Biotechnology Revitalization Law. In the past few decades, South Korea has successively released and started the National Research Laboratory (nal) project (1999), the 20th century frontier R&D project (2000), the BioStar project (2003), and the projects to promote bio-industry, new drug research and development, organ engineering, biochip development and so on. According to statistics, since 1994, the Korean government's investment in biotechnology has increased by more than 20% every year, and the accumulated investment in 2005 reached 4.3 trillion won.
Biomedicine is the most important part of biotechnology in Korea, and about 60% of biotechnology companies in Korea are biopharmaceutical companies. In 2003, Factive was recognized by the US Food and Drug Administration and became the first internationally recognized new drug in Korea. Since then, with the successful development and production of many new drugs, South Korea has a number of biological drugs with independent intellectual property rights. South Korea's fermentation technology is the most internationally competitive field in Korean biotechnology, involving amino acids, enzyme preparations, antibiotics and other industries. Among them, the share of amino acid products in the global market is 20%. In 2005, researchers from Seoul National University successfully extracted a Bacillus fermentum, which can treat avian influenza and other chicken diseases. In order to reduce dependence on oil imports, South Korea attaches great importance to the development of biodiesel. From June 5, 2004 to 10, South Korea revised the Law on Petroleum and Petroleum Alternative Fuels, and formulated the quality standards for biodiesel. South Korea imposes stricter regulations on biofuels and fuel efficiency. In terms of biological products, the biological products independently developed by Korea have gradually changed from the initial functional food to biomedical and biomedical products, and have a number of world brands independently developed. In addition, Seoul National University successfully cloned the world's first cloned dog Snoopy and two endangered species wolves in 2005 and 2007.
Korea is a country that attaches great importance to education. There are thousands of colleges and universities in China. National Seoul National University is a comprehensive university, ranking 4th among 20 13QS Asian universities. Yonsei University and Korea University are also known as South Korea's S.K.Y (meaning to support higher education in South Korea). In addition, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Pohang University of Technology also enjoy a high reputation internationally.
Education is called the second economy to promote the economic development of Korea. In the early 1970s, South Korea formulated the development strategy of "building the country through education and rejuvenating the country through science and technology" and implemented the policy of "consolidating compulsory primary education, popularizing secondary education, improving higher education and strengthening vocational and technical education". From 1966 to 1995, South Korea achieved a leap from 5% to 15% and then to 50% in two years, making higher education popular and becoming the fastest developing country in the world. 1996 and in 2006, South Korea launched "Korean Brain 2 1" and "World-class University Plan" to further improve higher education. 20/kloc-in may/April, in the survey of "global education power" conducted by Pearson, Korea ranked first in the world.