List of Korean inventions and discoveries
This is a list of Korean inventions and discoveries; Koreans have made contributions to science and technology from ancient to modern times. In the contemporary era, South Korea plays an active role in the ongoing Digital Revolution, with one of the largest electronics industries and most innovative economies in the world. The Koreans have made contributions across a number of scientific and technological domains. In particular, the country has played a role in the modern Digital Revolution through its large electronics industry with a number of modern revolutionary and widespread technologies in fields such as electronics and robotics introduced by Korean engineers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and scientists.
Agriculture
Aquaculture
- Fishing net
- Pollock farming
- Seaweed farming
- Whaling
Mathematics
Technology
Electronics
- 3D hologram
- 3D nanoprinting pen
- 5G smartphone
- Curved display smartphone
- Double-data rate SDRAM
- EyeCan
- Flexible battery
- Floating-gate MOSFET
- Graphics DDR SDRAM
- High Bandwidth Memory
- LTE mobile phone
- Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor
- MP3 phone
- MP3 player
- Online electric vehicle
- Retina display
- Rollable keyboard
- Synchronous dynamic random-access memory
- Tablet computer
- Touchscreen phone
- Transparent resistive random access memory
- TV phone
- Universal Flash Storage
- Watch phone
- Wearable thermoelectric generator
Appliances
- Digital refrigerator
- Dual washing machine
- Kimchi refrigerator
- Steam closet
- Steam mop
- Wall-mounted drum type washing machine
Information technology
- 5G
- Caller ringback tone
- Contactless smart card
- Digital multimedia broadcasting
- Electronic promissory note
- Mobile television service
- Virtual store
- WiBro
Robotics
- Albert HUBO
- Cancer-fighting nanobot
- Ciliary microrobot
- Crabster CR200
- EveR-1
- HUBO
- MAHRU
- Manned bipedal robot
- Robotic thyroidectomy
- Robot prison guard
Entertainment technology
Internet
- Ad supported Online video platform
- Internet café
- MMORPG
- Question-and-answer platform
- Loot box
- National intranet
- eSports
- Social networking service
- Free-to-play
- Webtoon
- Mukbang
- Citizen journalism
- Stickers
- Offline cryptocurrency exchange
- Live Streaming Platform
Science
Social science
- Double-entry bookkeeping system
- Public opinion polling
- Society for the disabled
- Parental leave
- Silhak
- Juche
- Ilminism
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- U-City
Physical science
- Brown-Rho scaling
- Color charge
- Computational materials physics
- Diversity oriented fluorescence library approach
- FINEX
- Giga steel
- Graphene
- Gravitational microlensing
- Holotomography
- Vinylon
- Positron emission tomography
- Invisible axion
- Lee-Weinberg bound
- Supersolid
- Nano 3D printing
- Smart prosthetic skin
- LK-99
Life science
- Triangle of U
- Hantavirus
- Cloned dog
- Preventive HIV vaccine
- Nanomedicine
- Stent implantation of left main coronary artery stenosis
- Video-assisted minilaparotomy surgery
- Percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy
- Pharmaceutical drugs
- *Gemifloxacin is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic developed by LG Life Sciences that is used in the treatment of acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis and mild-to-moderate pneumonia.
- *Balofloxacin is an orally active fluoroquinolone antibiotic developed by Choongwae Pharma for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
- *Tedizolid is an oxazolidinone antibiotic developed by Dong-A ST, the specialty pharmaceuticals arm of Dong-A Socio Holdings, to treat patients with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections.
- *Gemigliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor developed by LG Life Sciences to treat hyperglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- *Evogliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor developed by Dong-A ST.
- *Fimasartan is a non-peptide angiotensin II receptor antagonist developed by Boryung Pharmaceutical to treat hypertension and heart failure.
- *Radotinib is a drug for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia, developed by Ilyang Pharmaceutical.
- *Zabofloxacin is an investigational fluoroquinolone antibiotic to treat multidrug-resistant infections due to gram-positive bacteria. It was discovered by Dong Wha Pharmaceuticals and licensed to Pacific Beach BioSciences for development.
- *Udenafil is a PDE5 inhibitor developed by Dong-A Pharmaceutical to treat erectile dysfunction.
- *Polmacoxib is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug developed by CrystalGenomics to treat osteoarthritis.
- *Ilaprazole is a proton pump inhibitor developed by Ilyang Pharmaceutical to treat dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and duodenal ulcer.
Architecture
Astronomy
Writing
Printing
Horology
- Braille smartwatch
Military
Traditional
- Iron plate armor
- Pistol
- Hwacha
- Airplane
- Naval artillery
- Armored warship
- Bulletproof vest
- Thousand paces gun
- Time bomb
- Machine gun
Modern
- Sentry guard robot
- Super aEgis II
- Airburst assault rifle
Alternative medicine
- Kiln sauna
- Hand acupuncture
- Primo vascular system
Ceramics
Music
- Musical notation
- Janggu
- Gayageum
- Pansori
- North Korean instruments
- K-pop
Painting
- Chaekgeori
- Munjado
Traditional games
Martial arts
Sports
Products
- Italy towel
- Gable top
- Electrically heated stone bed
- Circle contact lens
- Sheet Mask
- Lock & Lock
Miscellaneous
- Thundersticks
- Jige
- Knowledge Industrial Center
- Ice-breaking LNG carrier
- Drive-through COVID-19 testing
- Tornado potato