5G terminals, base station equipment displays, and 5G video relay demonstrations in the "5G Zone"
Introduction of Fourth Industrial Revolution convergence services including autonomous driving, AI, and IoT in the "Service Zone"

KT will showcase 5G technology and convergence services at Mobile World Congress 2018 (MWC 2018) under the theme "Experience the World's First 5G with KT."

KT will participate in the "Innovation City," a joint pavilion of the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), alongside global companies including Huawei, Turkcell, and Jasper. KT's exhibition hall consists of a "5G Zone" introducing the world's first 5G network and services, and a "Service Zone" showcasing advanced convergence services.



▲5G Zone: World's First 5G, 5G Terminals/Base Station Equipment, 5G Broadcasting Relay, Wireless VR
The "5G Zone" introduces KT's preparation process for world-leading 5G technology and 5G network-based services.

In the "5G Zone," visitors can visually confirm the speed of 5G networks compared to 4G networks through displayed 5G terminals. Additionally, it introduces the 5G integrated control system applied to KT's world-first 5G trial network unveiled this year. This incorporates "5G E2E Infra Orchestrator" technology for rapidly deploying and flexibly managing diverse 5G service networks based on virtualization.

Furthermore, KT will display 5G base station equipment based on the KT 5G SIG standard and NR (New Radio) standard jointly developed with global leading manufacturers including Samsung, Nokia, and Ericsson.

The exhibition features a demonstration of 5G broadcasting relay that synthesizes and transmits footage captured by multiple drones in real-time, allowing visitors to indirectly experience future 5G services. The demonstration, which captures a soccer field model, showcases 5G's characteristics—ultra-high speed, ultra-low latency, and ultra-connectivity—at a glance. This transmits large-capacity, high-definition video at ultra-high speeds, minimizes data transmission delay to enable real-time transmission, and enables stable drone operation and relay even amid tens of thousands of wireless signals like in a stadium.

Visitors can also experience the world's first fully wireless VR game, being publicly unveiled for the first time. Conventionally, VR games required users to wear high-specification PCs directly and use wired HMD (Head Mounted Display) terminals. KT has applied its proprietary wireless VR transmission technology, VR Walkthrough technology, enabling game content to run on remote servers while allowing users to enjoy games on lightweight smartphone-based HMDs. Additionally, KT's patented "Anti-Juddering" technology minimizes screen flickering that occurs during wireless VR implementation, improving dizziness symptoms.

▲Service Zone: Blockchain, Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, Smart Energy, Disaster Safety
The "Service Zone" introduces various convergence services that will lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution era, which the world is watching closely.

KT's "Blockchain" is the world's first to adopt Mini-chain technology that generates multiple chains, enabling safe storage of large-volume and unstructured data in real-time without tampering or falsification through high-speed, parallel processing of data. This technology has been applied to BC Card's electronic document management system, achieving high results including cost reduction and improved system efficiency.

"GiGA Drive" is a next-generation IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) dedicated platform for the 5G-based autonomous driving era. The "Smart AI" function supporting complex commands provides information on destinations, waypoints, and traffic conditions through voice, while the "Seamless" function interlocks mobile and IVI to automatically set schedules and meeting locations. Additionally, "ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System)" goes beyond simple risk alerts by applying next-generation intelligent transportation systems to visualize traffic signals and accident information.

"GiGA Eyes" is Korea's first intelligent video security platform pursuing cloud-based intelligence. It provides event analysis and accurate alarms through CCTV video and IoT (sensors, radar, sound) convergence situational awareness, and is an open platform expandable to various fields including environmental monitoring in addition to security.

"AI Networking" is an artificial intelligence-based network fault prediction system that KT has applied and is operating in the 5G trial network unveiled in February. It learns vast amounts of data generated in 5G and LTE networks to provide advance notice of future failures and presents fault prediction and remedial measures based on a knowledge database.

"K-Telco Score" is a machine learning-based "Credit Reporting Delivery Platform (CRDP)" service. This service utilizes AI machine learning analysis techniques to enable financial services such as interest rate reductions and credit limit increases for newcomers to the workforce or those without financial transaction records who have no unpaid or overdue telecom service payments.

"Kids Tracker" is an NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things)-based location tracking service commercialized by KT for the first time in the world. Parents can verify their children's precise location if they carry the device, and children can press a button to transmit their real-time location to their parents. Meanwhile, KT plans to introduce eMTC (enhanced Machine-Type Communication) service, which is specialized in tracking high-speed mobile objects compared to NB-IoT technology, within the first half of the year to further advance IoT services.

"KT-MEG" is the world's first smart energy integrated control platform owned by KT. This platform analyzes energy usage patterns through e-Brain, an AI engine, predicts energy production and consumption based on big data analysis results, and automatically controls energy facilities to support efficient energy consumption. It is being utilized in various fields including large hospitals and supermarkets, as well as solar power plants and electric vehicle charging management businesses.

"GiGA Safe Facility" is a facility safety and disaster safety specialized platform incorporating 5G-based optical sensing and wireless sensing technologies. Overcoming the limitations of existing high-cost, low-efficiency wired sensors through optical cable sensing and wireless sensing, it enables real-time detection and transmission of facility safety risk situations. Additionally, through data collection and analysis, it provides facility safety degradation levels to prevent safety incidents from occurring.

▲Support for Collaborative Partners in Mutual Growth, Cooperation with Global Operators, Presentation of 5G Trial Service Cases at GSMA SG
In addition, KT will support collaborative partners participating in the exhibition for overseas expansion and strengthen cooperation through meetings with various global companies while exploring business expansion opportunities.

Following last year, KT has prepared exhibition spaces for five mutual growth partners' overseas ventures. Featured displays include "Snatcher AI's" 5G broadcasting relay service positioned at the front of the exhibition hall, "FRTek's" 5G DAS equipment for 5G service network application, "MAXST" and "VIRNECT's" remote support AR video communication services using smart devices, and "IRISYS's" iris and facial recognition solutions applicable to various security services.

For global business expansion, KT will strengthen cooperation through meetings with high-ranking officials from the African Development Bank and the Benin government. It plans to discuss cooperation methods for e-government construction with the African Development Bank, which plays an important role in African infrastructure development, and will pursue meetings and partnerships with key officials from African governments.

Since beginning with the Rwanda high-speed communication network construction project in 2007, KT has achieved success by outcompeting major global competitors in competitive bidding for infrastructure construction projects in African countries including Tanzania and Gabon. Utilizing its years of infrastructure construction experience in Africa's information and communications market, KT plans to expand its African market presence at this MWC.

Meanwhile, KT's Senior Executive Vice President and head of Future Convergence Business Division Yun Kyung-rim presented KT's 5G technology and trial service achievements at the GSMA SG (Strategy Group) held on the 23rd-24th (local time), presenting the 5G trial services unveiled in February 2018 as a topic. Vice President Yun introduced KT's three-year preparation process following the declaration of its 5G vision at MWC 2015 and cases of 5G trial service application, gaining resonance from telecom operators worldwide.