The combination of 5G and offline should be implemented with IoT chips to demonstrate offline business possibilities.

SK Telecom CEO Park Jung-ho held a 2018 New Year’s gathering attended by SKB, SKP, and others, and urged that SK Telecom take the lead in 5G, which will bring about a world of a completely different dimension from the past in all areas, and become the driving force of the national economy.

President Park emphasized, “Up until 4G, it was a process of existing wired services becoming wireless, but 5G means that the offline world itself is entering the wireless realm,” adding, “With the advent of the 5G era, the convergence of offline and mobile will increase explosively, as map-based services such as telematics become wireless, financial transactions such as banking become standardized wirelessly, and AI is integrated.”

President Park went on to emphasize, “5G networks connected to autonomous vehicles and the like require exceptional competitiveness in terms of safety, and SK Telecom’s world-class mobile network capabilities, which it has led, will be a core asset.”

In addition, since the level of evolution and stability of 5G networks will be an important measure of national infrastructure, SK Telecom was urged to strive to be recognized by customers as the 'symbol of 5G' by providing the most stable 5G services that customers can use.

It was emphasized that in the MNO business, a culture must be established to provide the services customers need in a timely manner by continuously enhancing customer understanding through scientific customer data analysis.

Media fieldIt ordered the preparation of various measures to strengthen content competitiveness as well as expand scale. In particular, it called for plans to secure SK Broadband's last-mile competitiveness in the 5G era.

Furthermore, President Park emphasized, “Since the combination of 5G and offline is ultimately realized through IoT chips, this year’s IoT/Data business must demonstrate potential in B2B business with offline companies.”

Regarding the service platform business, it was mentioned that “both aspects—AI as a UI and a machine learning-based platform—must be considered.”

Regarding corporate culture, President Park emphasized the creation of synergy through collaboration. He stated, "The weight of work previously considered individual responsibilities will be only about one-third of this year's evaluation." He further emphasized, "Business units with management support infrastructure as well as business models must complete a synergy map to determine if they can create synergy with other organizations, and that synergy map will serve as the KPI for each organization."