“Just as the advent of smartphones has brought about many electromagnetic interference phenomena, and in the midst of this has come technological advancements and business opportunities, the advent of AI will present EMC with many challenges and opportunities.”

The EMC Technology Research Group (Chairman Seungyoung Ahn) of the Korea Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science (KIEES, President Jaesung Lee) held 'EMC KOREA 2025' (EMC Korea 2025) at KAIST Munji Campus on the 10th.

This event was held under the theme of EMC technology innovation in the AI era, and two AI-related sessions were prepared to reflect the current trend of AI technology being increasingly utilized in the EMC field. Additionally, 12 speakers presented in sessions including POWER EMC and AUTOMOTIVE EMC.

EMC Korea is an annual EMC technology exchange event hosted by the EMC Technology Research Association, which presents the latest EMC technology trends and research results, explains core EMC-related technologies, and provides lectures on basic knowledge for beginners.


This year, as the theme was AI technology, we invited Professor Hwang Chul-soon, who leads the EMC Lab at the University of Missouri's School of Science & Technology (MST), a research group leading the IEEE EMC Society, as a keynote speaker to talk about 'Signal Integrity and Power Integrity Technologies Using Machine Learning.'

At this event, a scholarship award ceremony for EMC researchers was also held. The EMC scholarship was established with a scholarship donation of 100 million won from EMSIS (CEO Kim Chul-soo), 18.67 million won from Changsung, 8 million won from EM Engineering, and 830,000 won from the EMC Technology Research Association, and 88 people have benefited from it over the past 13 years since 2013. This year, 10 people received scholarships.


In addition, Choi Hyeong-do, a senior researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, and Professor Kim Ki-chae of Yeungnam University were awarded the 'EMC Plaque of Appreciation' for their contributions to the development of EMC, and Kim Jong-hoon, CEO of EMC Doctors and former chairman of the EMC Technology Research Association, was awarded a plaque of merit.

Professor Kim Jeong-ho of KAIST, who gave the welcoming speech, said, “The reason EMC is an important technology is because, whether it is communications, computing, or wireless charging, the problem of interference always arises, and when you see that it is spread out spatially, I think it is a technology of coexistence.”

He also said, “With the advent of PCs in the 1980s and smartphones in the 1990s, many electromagnetic interference phenomena occurred in our daily lives, which also created development of EMC technology and business opportunities.” He continued, “Now with the advent of AI, EMC issues will inevitably arise in small areas such as GPU modules, HBM modules, AI supercomputers, and data centers, which will present EMC with many challenges as well as opportunities. EMC and AI will now become technologies that must coexist.”

Lee Jae-seong, the president of the Korean Electromagnetic Society, said, “There are many related research groups in the Korean Electromagnetic Society, but the EMC Technology Research Group is one of the most active research groups.” He added, “EMC is a discipline that studies how the same frequency coexists in the same space, and the field of EMC provides us with some wisdom for living.”He said, “I think it is a good idea, and I look forward to active research activities in the future as an academic discipline that studies public safety.”