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Daily Report : BoF - 한국의 성형 의료관광, 글로벌 허브로 부상
[Daily Report]
2025/07/15 09:11
1. BoF - 한국의 성형 의료관광, 글로벌 허브로 부상 강남 압구정은 세계 뷰티 중심지로 부각: 수많은 피부과·성형외과가 밀집한 '성형외과 거리'는 외국인 관광객들에게 인기 있는 명소가 되었으며 2024년 외국인 환자 120만 명 중 절반 이상이 미용 치료를 위해 방문 저렴한 비용과 신기술이 핵심 유인 요소: 미국보다 10분의 1 수준인 시술비, 연어 DNA·줄기세포 등 혁신적 치료 기술, 여러 시술을 묶은 번들 할인 등이 외...
Inside South Korea’s Cosmetic Tourism Boom
[Business]
2025/07/15 09:10
Korea’s medical tourism sector is thriving — but strict defamation laws, cultural differences and nationwide doctors’ strikes present unique challenges to foreigners seeking medical and aesthetic treatments in the global beauty capital.Apgujeong is the name of a particularly affluent ward in the upscale Gangnam district of Seoul, located right where the neighbourhood meets the southern bank...
The Sculpting Robots Quietly Used by Big-Name Artists
[Design]
2025/07/15 09:09
Two studio owners whose clients include Jeff Koons and Maya Lin dominate robot-chiseled art. One is spending big to preserve the human touch.High in the marble quarries of Carrara, Italy, a four-and-a-half-ton robot steadily carves the likeness of Indian spiritual leader Sai Baba. Lying flat in the cold sunlight, the sage’s likeness is slowly emerging from a massive block of premium Carrara ma...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How AI and Automation Can Transform the Consumer Enterprise
[Business]
2025/07/15 09:08
New analysis helps quantify the impact of technological disruption and shows how consumer companies can turn automation’s potential into value.Let’s say a retail merchandiser starts the process of analyzing scores of sales data and making recommendations for stock adjustments. Today, this worker is likely to perform that task using some amount of assistance from AI and automation tools, but n...
(Video) AI Robots Fill In For Weed Killers And Farm Hands
[Tech]
2025/07/15 09:07
Aigen's solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding.Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds.As farms across the United States face a shortage of laborers and weeds grow resistant to herbicides, startup Aigen...
The AI Layoffs Begin
[Consumer]
2025/07/15 09:06
Six months into 2025, over 50,000 tech workers have already been laid off, with giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, PwC, and Chegg Inc. making headlines. While AI is often cited as the culprit, insiders say the reality is more complex—part efficiency, part financial recalibration.At Microsoft, nearly 6,000 employees were let go, including a veteran developer who spent 18 years at the com...
(Video) This ‘Iron Dome’ For Mosquitoes Shoots Down Bugs With Lasers
[Product]
2025/07/15 09:05
The Photon Matrix is an AI-guided laser system that claims it can zap up to 30 mosquitoes per second.You can now order an “Iron Dome” for mosquitoes. Its name is the Photon Matrix, a black box about the size of a smartphone that can detect, track, and eliminate mosquitoes mid-flight using an AI-guided laser system.According to its inventor, it can identify and zap up to 30 mosquitoes per seco...
Venture Captital Is Riding A New AI Wave
[Investing]
2025/07/15 09:04
What do two decades of innovation research reveal about staying power in a shifting world? This year’s “Most Innovative Companies” report does more than spotlight today’s leaders. It explores what it takes to lead consistently through change, and how innovation excellence has evolved alongside digital disruption, AI acceleration, and growing geopolitical complexity.One of the many findings:...
Jacob Walls Unveils Touch-Responsive Pangolin Seating
[Design]
2025/07/15 09:03
London-based designer Jacob Walls has unveiled Pangolin, a seating collection that visibly reacts to human interaction. Made from industrial foam offcuts, the benches are hand-dyed with thermochromic pigments, allowing them to change colour in response to body heat. Much like a mood ring, each seat retains ghostly impressions of where someone has touched or sat — giving the furniture an almost...
