On March 19, 2009, ETRI developed a portable urine tester to analyze the components of urine as well as blood.

On March 20, 2009, ETRI installed a sculpture to commemorate its winning of the CDMA Creativity Award.

On May 23, 2009, ETRI held an outdoor event for persons with severe disabilities.

In September 2009, ETRI became the world’s first institute to develop AMOLED using transparent transistors.

On February 26, 2010, ETRI held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Convergence Technology Commercialization Center, which serves as an outpost for commercializing convergence technology developed by small, medium-sized, and venture businesses.

On March 18, 2010, with the aim of integrating and nurturing ETRI’s outstanding information technologies and the major industries in the Daegu region, ETRI held a groundbreaking ceremony to build the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Research Center, an intensive research facility for convergence of R&D efforts in the IT industry.

In 2010, ETRI developed the SAN-based remote ship maintenance technology, which applies IT achievements to the shipbuilding industry.

On October 13, 2010, ETRI received a presidential citation (group prize) in the section of international standards, at a ceremony to celebrate World Standards Day in 2010, held by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards, an affiliate of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.

On October 20, 2010, ETRI held a ceremony to give bone conductive telephones, which had been developed by its researchers to aid the hearing impaired, to the elderly in the local community.

In 2010, ETRI enabled welding training to be conducted in a virtual simulation environment it developed, thereby preventing risk factors in the field and reducing costs.

On February 8, 2011, the researchers who had developed LTE-Advanced technology were invited to the Blue House, the Korean President’s office, in recognition of their service to technology development.

On February 15, 2011, as part of its creative research project to create new ideas and conduct mid- to long-term research on basic original technologies, ETRI launched the Creative Research Section.

On March 10, 2011, ETRI held an IT symposium for smart national defense with the topic “Direction-setting for convergence of national defense and IT to strengthen the nation’s new growth engine.”

In 2011, ETRI independently developed an active RFID-based location tracing technology and, with the aim of saving system expenses, also developed a GPS tag chip and reader modem chip smaller than a coin.

On May 4, 2011, ETRI invited about 50 science and technology officers of 27 foreign embassies in Korea, and government officials from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, and introduced and demonstrated its key R&D technologies.

On May 9, 2011, for the purpose of raising national awareness and interest in the Giga Korea project, ETRI held the Giga Korea forum and exhibition at the National Assembly, in partnership with governmental agencies.

In 2011, ETRI submitted its user-customized instant computing technology to the Asia Electronics Exhibition in Shanghai (AEES) 2011.