Disney removed two episodes of the animated “The Simpsons” from Hong Kong’s online video service (OTT) that mentioned forced labor camps in China and the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests. According to an official familiar with the matter, the move is due to concerns over the violation of the Hong Kong National Security Law enacted in 2020.Attention is also being paid to the results of the Hong Kong court’s request for a ban on singing “Glory to Hong Kong” scheduled for the 12th.
The request to virtually ban “Glory to Hong Kong,” which anti-government protesters like to sing, also included blocking 32 related YouTube videos. It is the first time that a U.S. tech company has been involved in Songsa in earnest over politically sensitive content in Hong Kong.George Chen, who served as the head of the Chinese rental at Facebook’s parent company Meta, predicted that if the Hong Kong court accepts the blocking request, the authorities’ legal action against U.S. tech companies could be “bottled up.”Some point out that Hong Kong’s Internet environment has become closer to mainland China, where the Internet censorship system “Tanli Firewall” is located
Some Hong Kong residents are bypassing the virtual private network (VPN) as in mainland China as AI chatbots are blocked. Even a Hong Kong government spokesman emphasizes that it is still possible to use chatbots as alternative means such as VPN, saying that he respects Google’s “restricting access to Hong Kong.”The outflow of IT personnel is also continuing. Hong Kong, with a population of 7.5 million, is not a major market for U.S. tech companies in itself, but due to its unique free information distribution environment, companies and IT workers have chosen Hong Kong as their home base.However, over the past three years, tens of thousands of IT personnel have left Hong Kong, and one of the reasons is the contraction of freedom of expression.According to a survey released in March this year by the Hong Kong American Chamber of Commerce, only 38% of the respondents said they would have free access to the Internet and information platforms in Hong Kong over the next three years.Microsoft is also reportedly planning to move AI experts from Beijing to North America, not Hong Kong. Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), which has also been called a “star training center” for producing a number of talented people leading the Chinese IT industry, will exclude key AI experts from China.China’s state-run Global Times commented on a report by the British Financial Times (FT) that Microsoft has begun the process of transferring high-quality AI personnel to Vancouver, Canada, saying, “It is a pure exaggeration that a research institute ‘threatens’ China’s talent development.”

Sophia Kim

US ASIA JOURNAL

Informining is a compound word that combines info of information and Mining of data mining, meaning that it will extract information and make something meaningful. Our company’s goal is to provide services to create a world for people with advanced technology. Now, it is starting in the medical field, but after the service for all patients is provided, it plans to expand into various fields.It is difficult to say that it is a company that provides medical services. It’s just a company that develops health monitoring solutions. Among the world’s top five diseases, the artificial intelligence healthcare Hattihati service has been developed to help heart disease patients detect abnormalities and maintain life through 24-hour electrocardiogram and blood pressure checks. Currently, technologies are being developed to help patients in areas other than diagnosis and prescription within regulations.Hattihathii’s major artificial intelligence (AI) services can be largely divided into three areas: calibration AI, electrocardiogram analysis AI, and personalized AI. Here, calibration AI is an AI developed to satisfy the limitation of a smart device as an H/W, and is an AI to increase the accuracy of the device’s measured value compared to a medical device. Second, ECG analysis AI is an AI that checks and diagnoses heart diseases, myocardial infarction, and arrhythmia found in hospitals, and it is an analysis AI that makes it possible to see the heart from 12 angles. Finally, personalized AI is an AI that sets the normal range standard for different biological signals for each person, which alarms risk figures and records them in case of simple abnormal signals. Some have been developed and some are almost finished or are in the verification stage. I took care of my father and mother for more than 10 years. In particular, in the case of my mother, I couldn’t go out alone at home because of blood pressure and heart problems. After my parents died, I felt that there were many problems with similar cases, so I developed an artificial intelligence for medical self-diagnosis, which was selected for a government support project and started a business.Actually, I originally wanted to be a doctor. Of course, the reason was greatly influenced by my parents, but I had to take care of them because of my father’s worsening condition. No one could make money, so in the early 20s, I did a similar job as an intern. However, my mother was fighting various cancers, and my sister also suffered a lot due to her weak constitution.

For a long time, I did not know what to do while caring for my parents, so I went to all offices in Seocho-dong or Guro-dong to tell them stories and circumstances and asked them to work. Consulting seemed to suit my aptitude, so while preparing to work, a warrant flew in and I had to go to the army. After being discharged from the military, I thought about my career path, took the SAT to go to the U.S., and luckily passed UCLA. However, there was a setback in the plan to go through state support, so I had no choice but to give up. When I entered college and was contemplating another career path, my mother’s illness worsened and I started fighting against the disease, and this time I started caring for my mother again. At this time, he could not enter the house for almost three years, lived in a hospital, and took care of the patient, and the surgery went well, but his mother eventually died due to a recurrence. One of the things that was really hard at this time was that there was no window for patients or guardians to know information at all. I had no means to manage my health at home. Since Korea is a medical powerhouse, the technology for treatment is really good, but the problem is that there is no way to know the information. At this time, I desperately felt that I should know my physical condition and be able to manage it on my own, and this was the opportunity to develop Hearty Hearty. The company’s establishment process has been examined, and the U.S., Australia, Japan, and China are currently making results in providing solutions and measuring data solutions in hospitals and healthcare fields, and it is being programmed and used as a monitoring solution for patients, wards, and doctors through the application of university hospitals in Korea. Based on this, investment and licensing contracts are being made in various countries to apply these performance solutions.

▲ INFOMINING CO., LTD.
▲ CEO : Jae-yong Lee
▲ http://infomining.co.kr
▲ worldconsult@infomining.co.kr
▲ +82-70-4914-2970

H.S HA
Asia Journal

AI startups, which have moved into “AI Yangjae Hub,” a technology start-up promotion agency in the AI (Artificial Intelligence) field in Seoul, are attracting attention with results in various fields such as attracting investment at home and increasing sales.

“AI Yangjae Hub” is the first AI technology start-up development institution in Korea opened in December 2017 by Seoul Metropolitan Government to create a “artificial intelligence specialized base” where AI talent and companies are concentrated.

It is operating one-stop corporate support programs such as funding, investment attraction, networking, and R&D, as well as a step-by-step curriculum to foster AI professionals.

As of early March 2022, there are about 100 AI start-ups in the AI Yangjae Hub, and about 50 companies have graduated so far. AI Yangjae Hub operates a “membership program” for non-resident companies to expand the base of the AI industry and is also striving to create a community ecosystem between more than 100 startups with AI technology and AI Yangjae Hub tenants.

Despite the ongoing severe COVID-19 situation, artificial intelligence-specific companies that have moved into AI Yangjae Hub are showing overall growth in terms of sales, investment, and employment. As of the end of FY21, tenant companies posted 81.9 billion won (about 80 million dollars) in sales, up 25 percent from the previous year. It is also notable that the amount of investment attracted has more than doubled compared to the previous year. In 2020, tenant companies, which recorded about 52.1 billion won in investment attraction, recorded a total of 116.7 billion won in investment attraction in 2021 with successive large-scale investment attraction due to steep growth. The number of workers more than doubled compared to the previous year, reaching 732 at the end of 2021.

Behind the growth of these AI startups is various corporate growth and collaboration programs unique to AI Yangjae Hub.

In the case of early start-ups, the factors needed for growth are different, but among them, investment is one of the most important factors in growth. Among the investment-related programs, the startup build-up program AI Seed Camp, which was conducted in cooperation with Infobank Co., Ltd., found five promising early companies as a result of its operation, two of which received direct investment support and one was finally selected as TIPS.

AI startup Demo Day ‘IR Runway’, an AI Yangjae hub investment attraction support program, focuses on recruiting investors with a lot of investment history in AI-specific companies and matches interested companies and investors to hold 1:1 customized investor meetings. In fact, a total of 81 investment meetings (mentoring) were held through the operation of the last demo day, and two companies achieved 2.4 billion won in investment attraction.

AI Yangjae Hub, where companies in the artificial intelligence field are gathered, is also attracting attention from various investors. One of the biggest advantages of the AI Yangjae Hub is that companies, investment companies, and institutions that want to meet artificial intelligence-specific companies can meet several tenants at once.

In addition, AI Yangjae Hub is providing a place for companies to create synergy through mutual collaboration by taking advantage of its own strengths where companies in the artificial intelligence field are concentrated. In 2021, tenant companies collaborated through the tenant company cooperation project to develop solutions to reduce food emissions in Seoul and pilot 10 workplaces.

Businesses are also operating to address difficulties in corporate management. AI Yangjae Hub’s management support service “AISSIST” expands the pool of experts in various fields such as tax and accounting patents, personnel, labor, and technology to solve various difficulties faced by hub companies when operating their businesses, and provides companies with continuous mentoring opportunities.

AI Yangjae hub companies are also actively entering overseas markets. This is due to supporting global market localization consulting and global market entry support programs. At this CES 2022, 11 companies affiliated with AI Yangjae Hub participated in the “Seoul Pavilion” jointly created and operated by AI Yangjae Hub, and two of them won the CES Innovation Award. In addition to the Seoul Pavilion, it won the top innovation award from one of the hub companies that participated in CES 2022 and the innovation award from four companies. Businesses that reflect companies’ demand for entry into the global market have also been actively underway since 2011, such as supporting lectures on strategies to enter the global market and characteristics of each country through cooperation with 500 Global, a leading private AC company in Silicon Valley.

Jong Yung Yoon, Managing Director of  AI Yangjae Hub, said, “We are making efforts to provide practical support to companies and strengthen investment and technical support through organic cooperation with the private sector.” I hope that AI Yangjae Hub will come to mind when it comes to artificial intelligence in Korea,” he said.

In the near future, anyone who thinks of Korean artificial intelligence will naturally think of the “AI Yangjae Hub,” where various AI-specialized companies gather together to grow into a representative artificial intelligence company in the future, along with various support programs.

Asia Journal

Currently, large companies Skc&c and AIA Life Insurance are developing joint healthcare solutions with mou. It’s been announced.

AIA Life Insurance is developing an artificial intelligence-based health care platform. To this end, it will join hands with SK C&C, a leading IT solution company in Korea.

AIA Life Insurance’s Korean branch (CEO: Cha Tae-jin, hereinafter “AIA Life”) signed a memorandum of understanding with SK C&C (CEO: Park Jung-ho) at SK Group’s headquarters in Seorin-dong, Jongno-gu. It announced that it has decided to jointly develop a customer-centered digital integrated health care platform using AIA Vitality, a global health care program, and SK C&C’s artificial intelligence Aibril.

Through this MOU, the two companies plan to build customized health care services by combining “AIA Vitality,” the first scientific health care program in the Asia-Pacific region, and “Aibril,” an artificial intelligence using Watson of SK C&C. The plan is to reduce the risk of major diseases caused by smoking, drinking, poor eating habits, and lack of exercise by allowing customers to have healthy lifestyles on their own.

“AIA Vitality” is AIA Life Insurance’s scientific health care program that presents knowledge and methods for members to protect their health on their own. Using the principles of behavioral economics, members pursue healthy habits and provide various benefits such as discount coupons such as fitness centers, yoga centers, health foods, plane tickets, and coffee when they achieve their given goals. Through this, members can continue to make efforts for their own health care.

SK Co., Ltd. C&C plans to increase the service level of “AIA Vitality” as a customized health management service that considers individual physical characteristics, lifestyle, and living environment by utilizing IoT technology capabilities such as ▲ Watson-based artificial intelligence “Abril” ▲ various wearable devices.

The two companies plan to prepare various reward programs in the future and make it easier for domestic healthcare companies to participate in providing health care services through an “integrated digital health management platform.”

And it seems that artificial intelligence robots, especially seniors, have conversations or provide non-face-to-face emergency notification services.

Wonderful Platform, a developer, taught robots how to care for the elderly, living environment, and medical knowledge through artificial intelligence and applied related manuals.

It has added a speechless function to soothe the elderly’s sense of isolation and is equipped with various activity functions to prevent dementia.

“In an emergency, if you touch this emergency button or shout for help, an emergency notification will be sent to your guardian.”

With the development of such a care robot, the Wonderful Platform participated in the non-face-to-face welfare sector during the government’s Korean version of the New Deal project last year and received support such as upgrading services, and was selected as the best case of the Korean version of the New Deal this month.

Currently, care services are provided to 2,600 elderly people through local governments and health centers nationwide.

As the demand for non-face-to-face care services increases amid the COVID-19 situation, the service targets will be further expanded not only to the elderly but also to children with developmental disabilities.

There seems to be a lot of regrets. It seems to be a simple companion, an emergency notification, and knowledge information sharing. It is just an object called a robot, and it seems not enough to be called artificial intelligence. It feels like a non-face-to-face caregiver robot.

If so, attention is already paid to the Korea University Hospital (Yonsei Foundation Severance, Korea University Hospital, Yeungnam University Hospital, Pusan National University Hospital, etc.), institutions (Disease Headquarters, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Foreign Affairs), and the Airport Management Corporation. Japan’s Omron, Softbank, DataScope, Fujisoft, Toyota (Elematec Corporation), and Matsui Corporation have been conducting artificial intelligence tests in Spain for more than a year, combining basic diagnoses such as blood pressure, blood sugar, electrocardiogram, and oxygen saturation with general devices (wearable watches) and their servers. Although it is a small and medium-sized company, I think it is the best existing company that combines medical care with more than 20 professional software hardware developers. Tele-doc, a U.S. NASDAQ-listed company, also sent a LOI and is set to enter the U.S.

▲ INFOMINING CO., LTD

▲ CEO : Jae-yong Lee

▲ http://infomining.co.kr

▲ worldconsult@infomining.co.kr

▲ +82-70-4914-2970

Sam Kim

Asia Journal

CES, the world’s largest technology show, opened on January 5, 2022.

Though the event returned as an offline event for the first time in two years, the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant had caused many American tech giants to change course and attend virtually. Among these companies were Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta (Facebook). Accordingly, the in-person presence of Korean companies was especially highlighted at CES 2022.

The Consumer Technology Association hosted the event in Las Vegas, from January 5 to January 7, 2022 (local time). Though it was originally scheduled to run through January 8, the closing date was moved up in light of the pandemic.

The number of attending companies, at around 2200, was down by half from the pre-pandemic CES of 2020. On the other hand, Korean companies made their largest ever appearance, with over 500 exhibitors. This was an increase of around 29% from 390 in 2020. Not only the automobile industry but also the hollow industry attended this year’s CES to showcase advanced technologies.

◆Hyundai Motors, Robotics, and Future Mobility Technology.

At CES 2022, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun presented a vision for robotics under the theme of “Expanding Human Reach” and explained new concept robots. Chairman Chung had shown a demonstrable interest in the robotics industry of late; in December of last year, he acquired an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics, the world’s top robot company, for about 1 trillion won.

Hyundai Motor unveiled “Mobility of Things (MoT)”, which gives mobility to all objects, as well as “Plug & Drive (PnD) modules” based on core robotics technology to realize the ecosystem for the first time.

It also introduced “MobED”, an innovative small mobility platform. MobED combines Hyundai Motor Group’s robotics technology to drive objects freely in complex urban environments. It can be used for such various purposes as strollers, courier and cargo transportation, and special filming.

M.Vision POP & M.Vision 2GO, a city-sharing mobility concept, was also unveiled for the first time to global visitors. Under the theme of Joyful Life in M.VISION Town, Hyundai Mobis delivers Mobis’ technology and vision in a new space that transcends Metabus.

Model Solutions, a total solutions company affiliated with Korea & Company Group (Hankook Tire Group), participated for the second consecutive year following CES 2021. Model Solutions is an innovative company that provides total solutions from design to mass production. It also operates a hardware accelerator program that supports planning, design, development, prototypes, and mass production for start-up companies with future-oriented and creative ideas.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group participated in CES for the first time. Chung Ki-sun, president of Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings, revealed his blueprint for the company’s future. Avikus, a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries, presented a vision of how its autonomous operation technology can transform the marine mobility sector.

Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, a holding company in the shipbuilding sector, introduced its marine hydrogen value chain to cope with the climate change crisis.

Clue Insights, Hyundai Doosan Infracore’s big data-based equipment management solution developer, presented plans for a safe and efficient future construction site.

Also participating in the booth on site was Hyundai Genuine, the holding company of Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Construction Machinery.

◆ Doosan Group celebrated its second consecutive year of participation at CES.

Doosan, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Pure Cell, Doosan Industrial Vehicle, Doosan Robotics, and Doosan Mobility Innovation presented at CES 2022. Chairman Park Jung-won did not attend in person, in light of the spread of the Omicron variant.

This year, Doosan set up a 450 m2 booth in the West Hall to join the congregation of other companies in the automobile and autonomous vehicle industries. The booth allowed visitors to experience how advanced future technologies could be applied to daily life.

At the centre of the booth was a 3.5-meter-high model of the Tri-Gen system. Tri-Gen, currently being developed by Doosan Pure Cell, is a system that uses fuel cells to produce hydrogen, electricity, and heat at the same time.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction also presented its hydrogen utilization technology. It introduced the process of electrolyzing water with electricity produced by offshore wind turbines, producing green hydrogen and hydrogenating waste resources.

Doosan Robotics presented various ways in which robots could help with daily life activities and entertainment.

Doosan Bobcat held a media day event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas on the 4th, a day before the opening of CES. Here, they unveiled the “All-Electric” compact track loader T7X for the first time.

POSCO Group introduced POSCO’s venture platform and venture companies fostered by POSCO. POSCO set up a joint exhibition hall with POSTECH and Pohang Institute of Industrial Science (RIST) to introduce a POSCO-type venture platform that discovers and invests in new growth projects, using POSCO’s unique industry, academia, and research infrastructure. It also set up an exhibition hall with promising venture companies discovered through POSCO Idea MarketPlace (IMP).

A total of 13 corporate briefing sessions were also held, including six venture companies fostered by POSCO, two venture companies fostering POSCO International, and five venture companies starting POSTECH.

Sam Kim

Asia Journal

Se-jin Park, CEO of Sewon Intelligence

I would like to introduce Se-jin Park, CEO of Sewon Intelligence to these important issues. He worked for the Korea Institute of Standards and Sciences along 30 years. This institution developed an intelligent real-time monitoring platform with the experience and know-how gained through all products, systems, and environments used by humans. He’s an expert among experts. Perhaps that’s why it seems that the most important part was developed intensively. To explain the core, it is a health platform that measures biometric information in the body, transmits it through wireless communication, processes it as data, and provides it to medical experts to build healthcare services. In particular, the last CES 2020 (Consumer Electronics Show) showed real-time health monitoring while sleeping, and is currently preparing to approve MFDS. In addition, it showed the world’s first “symbolic monitoring system” for the first time in the industry. Next time, it would like to show the development of the technology and utilization of Sewon Intelligence in more detail.

▲ SEWON INTELLIGENCE Co., Ltd

▲ CEO : SeJin Park

▲ http://www.sewon3h.com

▲ sujin@sewon3h.com

▲ +82-2-777-7301

The Tencent Institute of Artificial Intelligence in China has launched an artificial intelligence model that detects human movements and detects Parkinson’s disease.The evaluation process is simple. When a person makes a series of actions in front of a camera, artificial intelligence analyzes and diagnoses through image identification technology. It is said that it is trying to release an identification model that helps rehabilitate patients with cerebral palsy in the future and a model that analyzes the motor nerves of older people.

As such, multinational and large companies are already actively researching and developing various milk powders using artificial intelligence, especially in healthcare. However, the resistance of medical staff who suspect accurate analysis and diagnosis is also fierce, appealing to and approaching the public under the names of smart care, non-face-to-face care and video care. It is thought that proper cooperation and communication in both areas can achieve the most appropriate diagnostic analysis solution. In the end, the idea is that to accurately analyze and diagnose the collected data, we must provide a lot of reference data to artificial intelligence and operate big data well.

HHS CEO Han demonstrating his product

Currently, the world has access and research using artificial intelligence in many fields such as industrial groups and healthcare. Therefore, HHS’s development solutions are also worthy of attention. However, how to be linked and what areas to be developed should eventually be collected with data on biorhythms through the brain, and artificial intelligence solutions should be useful. Toyota, DataScope, Maxell, Carecom, and others, which are leading Japanese companies, are already interested in developing businesses that use solutions with this company through contracts such as NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement). What we need to note about this is that this company’s development capability has reached a significant level.

SAM KIM

Asia Journal

HHS

▲ HHS Co., Ltd.

▲ CEO : Hyung-seob Han

▲ Brand : HHS, PINYFINY

▲ www.hhskorea.com

▲ overhs@naver.com

▲ +82-10-6733-5112

It has also been introduced overseas to the Middle East of Japan, and Japan is discussing planning investments for application and transaction with domestic companies (Carecom, DataScope, Maxel, and NTT Data) with cooperation with Elematec under Toyota Group. Of course, it was well introduced, and by the time the industry was concerned about how to take the most efficient management and data in response to the global corona crisis, Infomining had measured biorhythm with wearable devices and already achieved 95 percent accuracy which is more than that of normal hospital measuring equipment. In addition, these solutions have drawn keen attention from the medical community in the drive for non-face-to-face informining’s solutions. Jae-yong Lee, CEO of Infomining Co., Ltd, will directly participate with more than twenty professional software development personnel. The paper published with such passion is recognized in Spain, Europe, and will be invited to lecture in November. It is showing the capabilities of Infomining beyond Korea to Japan, the United States, and Europe.

Sam Kim

Asia Journal

▲ INFOMINING CO., LTD

▲ CEO : Jae-yong Lee

▲ http://infomining.co.kr

▲ worldconsult@infomining.co.kr

▲ +82-70-4914-2970

It must be a sufficient solution for industrial groups, construction sites, and for dense groups or safety needs. In Korea and other countries, the development of various industries and public service places always prioritize safety, and in order to do so, we need to manage systems, appliances, and facilities by professional managers. The device developed by HHS Co., Ltd enables workers to communicate with more systematic professionals and the vital signs can be delivered directly to managers in the control booth through the helmet worn.

The smart helmet has been introduced to Japanese and other companies, and letters of intent have already been sent with interest from Shimizu Shipbuilding, Tokyo Electron, a reactionary equipment company, and Joseph, an American plant developer.

Training professional manpower is important, but the key is that systematic management and control can be safely achieved through manpower. We live in an environmental disaster and a collective system and use public facilities. So it would be useful and convenient to use in the construction sites and infrastructure industries. Therefore, it is hoped that the company’s development items introduced above will be used for both managers, users and builders.

Sam Kim

Asia Journal

▲ HHS Co., Ltd.

▲ CEO : Hyung-seob Han

▲ Brand : HHS, PINYFINY

▲ www.hhskorea.com

▲ overhs@naver.com

▲ +82-10-6733-5112