SpaceT, Genstarmate, Avison Young Korea, and DDB Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on April 6 to promote a personal air vehicle (PAV) ride-sharing platform service.The four companies are promoting a service that provides consumers with the ability to check the location of a drone, use
The authors are analysts of Shinhan Investment Corp. They can be reached at jy.son@shinhan.com and changmin.yoon86@shinhan.com, respectively. -- Ed. A provider of AI-based machine vision solutions LaonPeople develops and manufactures camera module testers and AI-based image processing software and h
Ringle English Education Service Co. (Ringle), a member company of Born2Global Centre that provides 1:1 video English lessons with native-speaking tutors from prestigious U.S. and U.K. universities, has secured US$8.9 million in investments.The potential of Ringle, which is currently in the process
The Korea International Trade Association announced on March 11 that South Korea’s home dishwasher exports increased 41 percent to an all-time high of US$245.78 million last year.“According to our AI-based analysis, South Korean home dishwasher products’ potentials as import items are highest in the
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at jack.baek@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Market interest has been growing in VAIV’s digital twin technology. Capable of digitally reproducing real-world objects, the firm’s digital twin platform should come to be more widely adopted via
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at midas.sohn@nhqv.com. -- Ed. In 1H21, we recommend that small/mid-cap investors focus on AI companies. Recently, in the Korean entertainment show ‘Competition of the Century: AI vs Humans’, the voice of the late Korean folk
SK Holdings C&C has taken the wraps off an artificial intelligence (AI) eye that can tell slight differences in micrometer (㎛) pixels.The company released on Feb. 3 I-FACTs Smart Vision, a general-purpose software solution that is powered by AI.The AI package solution has the ability to read minimum
Syntekabio, an AI and NGS-based drug development company, announced on Jan. 14 that it has signed multiple co-development agreements with Hanmi Science to develop COVID-19 treatments utilizing drug repositioning technologies.The two companies signed an MOU in September 2020 to develop COVID-19 drug
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at jack.baek@nhqv.com. -- Ed. As a representative player in the field of natural language processing, VAIV Company boasts over 20 years of experience in the AI industry. We positively view the firm’s low SI sales portion and s
42Maru, a Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup specializing in question-answering platform, announced on Jan. 7 that it has been selected for Industrial Bank of Korea’s acceleration program "IBK Changgong." The program provides customized assistance to startups for each stage of growth by act
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at hyundong.lee@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Satrec Initiative is Korea’s only player capable of developing and exporting electro-optical satellite systems. Backed by new productlaunches, the firm’sorders and earningshave been expanding.
The authors are analysts of NH Investment & Securities. They can be reached at jinmyung.choi@nhqv.com and hyundong.lee@nhqv.com, respectively. – Ed. Korea is a late-starter in the space development arena. The annual budget allocated for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), a leading govern
AIRS Medical, a Korean startup specializing in medical artificial intelligence (AI) software, has won “fastMRI Challenge 2020,” a global competition jointly organized by Facebook AI Research and NYU Langone Health. The challenge was designed to accelerate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans of th
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at midas.sohn@nhqv.com. -- Ed. In the machine vision arena, the trend towards AI adoption is accelerating. Until now, Laon People’s AI machine vision solutions have mainly been applied in the PCB industry. From 2021, however,
Kyobo Life Insurance announced on Dec. 3 that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based insurance screening system.Earlier, the insurer developed the world’s first AI-based underwriting system based on natural language processing and machine learning. With the two systems, the company i
SK Telecom (SKT) will establish an integrated security company by merging its subsidiaries SK Infosec and ADT Caps.SK Infosec and Life and Security Holdings (LSH), the parent company of ADT Caps, each held a board of directors meeting recently and approved the merger.SK Infosec and LSH will merge wi
StradVision, a member company of Born2Global Centre, has joined NVIDIA Inception, a virtual accelerator program designed to nurture companies that are revolutionizing industries with advancements in AI and data sciences.Distinguishing itself as a collaborator of choice from among other AI companies,
SK Telecom (SKT) unveiled its self-developed artificial intelligence (AI) chip named ‘SAPEON X220’ and shared its AI semiconductor business vision on Nov. 25.SAPEON X220 is optimally designed to process artificial intelligence tasks faster, using less power by efficiently processing large amounts of
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at midas.sohn@nhqv.com. -- Ed. In 2020, small/mid-cap stocks have led the market, rallying strongly on ample liquidity, economic stimulus packages, and Korea’s New Deal policies. In 2021, the fundamentals of large-caps are exp
BlueSignal, a member company of the Born2Global Centre and Sejong Technopark, uses an AI-based traffic prediction engine to develop diverse platform services that offer various traffic information, tailored to the needs of the transportation industry and related industries.The company develops innov