KT has announced its ambition to strengthen its AI competitiveness by investing 7 trillion won in AI by 2027. Its goal is to exceed 1 trillion won in annual sales from its AI convergence business by 2025.

On the 21st, KT held a press conference at the Novotel Ambassador Dongdaemun in Jung-gu, Seoul, and introduced its customized AI service business strategy, including AI robots, AI care, and AI education. At the event, KT announced that it had achieved cumulative orders worth over KRW 800 billion in AI businesses, including AICC and AI logistics.

KT stated that it will become an 'AI service provider' that provides customized AI services according to the needs of customers and industries in the direction of AI promotion.

KT announced that it will focus on 'customized AI services' including AI robots, AI care, and AI education, along with AICC and AI logistics business. The goal is to achieve annual sales of over 1 trillion won by 2025 from the five businesses mentioned above.

KT also announced that it will activate the AI ecosystem based on the 'AI Full Stack' by utilizing its infrastructure strengths such as 'Trust', AI semiconductors, and cloud, as well as other large-scale AI technologies.

We are also fleshing out our plans for global expansion. We will collaborate with Singapore's Singtel and leading local logistics companies to launch an AI transportation platform in Singapore, the logistics hub of East Asia. Additionally, we plan to establish a Vietnamese healthcare corporation and commercialize AI care services in the second half of this year.

KT announced that it will invest approximately 7 trillion won over the next five years until 2027 in the following areas: △ultra-large AI technology, △advancing the cloud and IDC infrastructure, which are core AI infrastructure, △discovering new AI businesses and advancing services.

The plan is to secure the highest level of AI technology capabilities and infrastructure, including expanding the scale of ultra-large AI parameters and securing learning technology, constructing and expanding the IDC, and upgrading the AICC infrastructure, and to enhance the competitiveness of KT's AI business based on this.

KT AI/DX Convergence Business Division Vice President Song Jae-ho said, “KT will apply the experience, capabilities, infrastructure, and know-how it has accumulated to the AI business to establish itself as a customer-centered AI service provider,” and “We will do our best to raise the level of competitiveness of not only KT’s future growth but also the entire AI industry of Korea.”

Expanding AI businesses, including AI robots, care, and education.
KT defines its robotics business as a service-centered business rather than a hardware-centered one, and aims to expand the use of service robots as an AI robot service provider based on a delivery system and robot platform.

We are also expanding our AI robot product lineup. The goal is to expand outdoor delivery robot services from the current serving, quarantine, and indoor delivery robots, and to evolve into small logistics robots for factories, agricultural delivery robots, and 'customized AI robot services.'

KT is launching a remote care service focused on chronic diseases using AI technology in Korea. KT's remote care service uses AI to analyze patients' data and consultation records, resulting in a "care plan" that is then presented via app or phone. Care coordinators, comprised of experts such as nurses and nutritionists, use AI to analyze patients' data and consultation records.

In particular, KT's AI food tag technology allows users to record their diet and analyze nutritional information with a single photo, making it easier to manage their health. By applying ultra-large-scale AI to this technology, KT plans to expand the range of food types it can recognize from the current 1,000 with 96% accuracy to approximately 2,000, including restaurant-branded and processed foods.

KT is also preparing to launch "Genie TV Care," an extension of its "AI Care Service" for vulnerable populations, which extends to TV. This service analyzes TV viewing patterns to detect abnormalities in seniors and relays the situation to the KT Telecop control center, local government officials, and guardians.

Meanwhile, KT announced in January that it would establish a medical corporation, ‘KT Healthcare Vina’, in Vietnam and pursue health checkups and remote care businesses.

KT unveiled its "AI Future Education Platform." This platform reduces teachers' burdens by automating tasks based on digital learning tools. It also enables personalized learning through automated instructional design, AI-recommended customized materials, and automatic learning diagnosis and analysis. Students can diagnose their learning level through AI learning achievement analysis and engage in self-directed learning with AI-tailored recommended educational content.

This will be implemented in public education this year. KT, which has been developing and operating the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's "Remote Learning Support Platform (NewSSEM)" since 2021, plans to apply the "AI Future Education Platform" to the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education starting in the second semester. It will then expand to other regional offices of education and collaborate with EBS to provide the most preferred content for public education.

Additionally, the company plans to expand its business aligned with educational policies, such as AI digital textbooks, and expand the platform's application to the private education market following public education.