KT Wins 4 Awards at 2017 International Business Awards
Published2017.10.23 10:32KT announced that KT Group Broadcasting Network (KBN), the KT Group's in-house broadcasting service, won in four categories at the 2017 International Business Awards (IBA) ceremony held at the W Hotel in Barcelona, Spain.
KBN is the core of KT Group's communication, broadcasting the latest global ICT trends and major innovation cases to group employees, as well as spreading management philosophy and facilitating internal communication.
The IBA, organized by The Stevie Awards in the United States, is the world's first global business awards. This year marks its 14th edition, with over 3,900 companies from more than 60 countries participating. Over 200 experts selected from around the world served as judges to determine the final Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners.
The KBN team won the Gold Award in the Communication Department category this year, receiving high praise for innovative initiatives such as displaying broadcasts via N-screens (TVs, PCs, mobile devices, elevator LCDs) and implementing a voice recognition channel access service through integration with KT GiGA Genie, an AI TV.
The <Voice of the Customer Campaign_Warm Phone Call Edition>, which produced a video of actual customer compliments to boost the pride of employees working hard in the field, won the Silver Award.
A video analyzing Fourth Industrial Revolution trends in Europe, including Germany, through coverage and filming of 'CeBIT 2017', and 'MWVideos showing KT leading the 5G market at 'C 2017' each won bronze awards.
According to the judges who participated in the 2017 International Business Awards, KBN’s way of working was evaluated as “professional and outstanding, like seeing the future of internal promotion,” and KBN’s broadcast videos were evaluated as “dynamic, interesting, and colorful content like CNN style,” and “professional and high-quality videos as internal communication.”
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