SKT announced that it has integrated AI services into KB Kookmin Bank's 'Liiv Next'.


KB Kookmin Bank's Liiv Next Applies SKT's 'Nugu SDK'
Voice calling services expand into various industrial sectors

SK Telecom (CEO and President Yoo Young-sang) is stepping up to support customers' convenient banking tasks by applying the AI service 'Nugu SDK' to KB Kookmin Bank's banking app 'Liiv Next'.

SK Telecom announced that it has equipped 'Liiv Next,' a banking app launched by KB Kookmin Bank on the 7th, with an AI service utilizing the 'Nugu Software Development Kit (Nugu SDK).'

SK Telecom and KB Kookmin Bank signed a 'Business Agreement for AI Banking Services Based on AI Nugu' last August and have continued their cooperation.

As a result, the 'NUGU SDK' was applied to the 'Liiv Next' app, enabling customers to perform banking tasks such as money transfers and inquiries by voice, and introducing AI services such as weather, conversation, and encyclopedia.

In particular, by developing and applying a customized AI wake word 'Kolly-ya' and Collie's voice using KB Financial Group's representative character 'Collie' through speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies, character identity and personality are added to the banking app service He said that he had granted it.

Lee Hyun-ah, Head of SKT AI&CO, said, “SKT opened the ‘Nugu SDK’ in 2019 and has been creating collaboration cases with various external partners. We hope that the results of this collaboration with KB Kookmin Bank will serve as a catalyst for SKT’s ‘Nugu’ platform to accelerate AI services across various industries.”