A venue has opened where you can check out our country's latest ICT trends and technological trends that are attracting global attention.

The '2023 World IT Show' hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and others will be held at COEX in Seoul for three days from Wednesday the 19th to Friday the 21st. This year's World IT Show, now in its 15th year, is themed 'K-Digital that Changes the World's Daily Lives.'

More than 1,300 booths from 465 domestic and foreign companies, including major ICT companies such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, SKT, and KT, participated in this exhibition.

The main exhibition participation fields are: △AI platform, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, ICT convergence service △Smart home, office, home appliances and smart healthcare △Intelligent mobility and robots such as autonomous driving, UAM, and drones △Digital twin and metaverse △Cloud and software △Security software and blockchain (NFT) △Quantum information science, etc.

In particular, various events have been prepared to promote Korea's excellent products and services, which won the most Best of Innovation Awards (9 out of 20) at the last CES 2023, and to support their entry into overseas markets.

△The 'Diplomats in Korea Tour' for diplomats, △The 'Export Strategy Conference' to share overseas expansion procedures and overseas ICT trends to enhance global expansion capabilities, △The 'Global ICT Outlook Conference' to address recent issues that big tech companies are working on, △The 'Innovative Technology Corporate Briefing Session' where major companies demonstrate and promote their products, etc. A Mingling Zone was also created to promote promising startup investment performance and support investment attraction.
Samsung Electronics dominated the atmosphere by displaying the works of famous domestic artists at the entrance, and mainly showcased the 'Galaxy S23', as well as a large number of Samsung Electronics electronic devices such as the Galaxy Book and Galaxy Buds.

Visitors can take pictures with dawn, noon, and sunset in the photo booth, enjoy high-spec games at the booth, and even experience creating their own font.

SKT showcased its various cutting-edge ICT technologies and services, including AI, UAM, and metaverse. A large A. character was at the entrance of the booth, and various quiz show events were held, drawing a lot of attention from the audience.

In line with the motto of aiming to be an AI company, AI technology demonstrations were also exhibited, including AI cameras, vehicle AI ‘NUGU Auto’, Sapion’s AI semiconductor X220, and AI X-ray analysis tool Excalibur. In particular, it led the UAM demonstration and installed a simulator to provide experiential elements to visitors.

CJ OliveNetworks and CareLabs subsidiary Nine Communications have unveiled a 5G-based realistic content 3D hologram, ‘Proto Hologram.’ With the Holoportation technology, which allows real-time interaction and makes it feel like you've entered a hologram, visitors can experience transforming into virtual characters at the booth. Holograms are also implemented at the Oasis Studio and booth.

'Collab AR', an industrial safety metaverse AR solution, is based on 5G and allows workers to share their work sites remotely through AR glasses and communicate with experts in real time.

Han Kang-hee, head of the cloud business division at CJ OliveNetworks, said, “CJ OliveNetworks received approval from the Ministry of Science and ICT in August of last year as a 5G specialized network (Ieum 5G) operator, and showcased 5G-based technologies at this exhibition.”

Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho said, “With the recent emergence of ChatGPT, digitalization is becoming a part of our daily lives, and the ‘World IT Show’ is a platform for the public to experience and widely publicize excellent digital innovation products and services that are permeating our daily lives to the world,” adding, “The government plans to continue providing various policies to help excellent domestic digital companies lead the global market.”

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wealthThe 'Global ICT Outlook Conference' was packed with people at the conference stage in Hall C of the event venue as an agency. Starting with the Korea Impact Tech Awards ceremony, lectures on topics such as △Aerospace △Quantum △Chat GPT △AI/DX △Platform △UAM △Robot △5G followed.

In an AI session related to ChatGPT, Naver Cloud AI Lab Director Jungwoo Ha presented on the ecosystem that will transform into a super-large AI in the future.

Director Ha said, “AI will bring about many changes to the ecosystem, and domestic companies must respond strategically to global companies such as Open AI through collaboration,” and “Naver’s HyperClova was made in Korea, so it provides more accurate content compared to ChatGPT-4, which lacks Korean understanding, and this will determine good quality.”

Naver Clova has the advantage of lowering the price and speed of multilingual translation by creating a Korean-centered token dictionary. It currently provides convenience in Naver Shopping marketing tools, Clova Care AI call service, etc., and it is expected to be useful for solving business opportunities and social problems. Hyper Clova X, which is specialized in individual fields and connected to actual productivity tools, will be released in July.

Myung-Dae Oh, Managing Director of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Korea, gave a presentation on the topic of 5G specialized network opportunities.

It has been a long time since 5G was first commercialized, but 5G is not actually showing much performance. Mr. Oh emphasized the importance of combining it with IoT technology for commercialization of 5G.

5G specialized networks can be utilized in various forms, and because the future ramifications will be significant, we must recognize the potential and build 5G infrastructure now. To this, Managing Director Oh added, “We need to build a foundation for moving to 6G based on 5G mobile communications.”

Qualcomm, famous as a 5G chipset manufacturer, provides the entire operating system, including solutions for not only devices but also base stations and operating platforms. It is implementing and verifying 5G factory and building automation by forming an ecosystem through collaboration with domestic and international partners. A demonstration was also conducted at Schneider's French factory.

Mr. Oh Sang-moo said, “Qualcomm is working to open up the 5G specialized network market in Korea through partnerships with domestic equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, and SI companies such as Ericsson-LG, LG CNS, SKT, and KT that provide integrated services based on Qualcomm’s solutions.”