'2018 Smart Contents Business Day' Will Hold Investment Presentation and Awards Ceremony

    ANYANG, KOREA, December 06, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The 'Smart Contents Business Day' event hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Minister Yoo Young-min) and sponsored by the Information and Communications Industry Promotion Agency (Chairman Kim Chang-Yong) and the 'Next Generation Convergence Contents Industry Association (Chairman Choi Yo-chul) ended successfully on the 29th at Anyang Creative Economy Convergence Center. The presentation and award ceremony was also held for attracting investment in smart contents.

At the investment promotion presentation, 8 companies selected as excellent smart content companies were presented to investors. Selected companies are as follows. - Korea Risk Safety Management (automatic smart pet feeder) - Ham Partners (O2O hiring APP platform) - Innople (community commerce platform 'Dalping') - Schooling (school performance management system) - Data King (virtual exhibition viewing service "360° VR Museum") - Keds (Intelligent Emergency Notification Smart Band) - DNP Corporation (Augmented Reality Learning Poster) - Orfeo Soundworks (Smart Interpretation Function Earphone)

Of these, Orfeo Soundworks, Data King, DNP Corporation were awarded by IT journalists from all over the world, including US Geekazine, ICSMART in China, Lecafedugeek in France and Vietnam Plus in Vietnam. These companies has gained the opportunity to actively promote the company and contents through global media in the future.

Orfeo Soundworks is a company that develops engineering-based digital signal processing algorithms and develops new concept audio products by combining software technology with audio technology with hardware technology. At this investment presentation, noise cancelling solution and interpreter earphones using this technology were announced. An official at the Orfeo Soundworks said, "Many foreign media were interested in my demonstration along with my presentation. That is why I think we won the award."

Data King introduced the virtual exhibition viewing service '360 ° VR Museum'. 360˚VR Museum is a service that provides virtual viewing through 3D screen system of museum display on general web browser such as Edge and Chrome. It is realistic 360 ° VR content that can move with three-dimensional feeling by touching the screen with mouse or finger. PHOUNG TRANG HOANG of Vietnam Plus said, "It is an honor to meet many start-ups in Korea." "The 360 ° VR Museum" was the most impressive. " "I think it's very attractive to tourists who cannot gain first-hand experience," he said.

DNP Corporation, a company that introduced augmented reality learning posters, is a company that professionally manufactures, develops and services augmented reality contents. The company is expanding its business through experiential smart tourism, augmented reality tourist posters, and augmented reality education charts through its augmented reality technology and contents production capability. DNP Corporation stays active in the augmented reality market by creating added value through merchandising, sales and service, and it is showing a remarkable potential among augmented reality companies. A representative of DNP Corporation said, "I think that many people have given good scores to the contents centered around user convenience." He also said, "we accept this award as a message to work harder."

On the other hand, in the '2018 Smart Content Business Day', which was held for the seventh year starting from 2012, there was an investment presentation as well as a strategy conference on the theme of 'Smart City and Outlook for Smart Content Technology' . In addition, it held a variety of other events such as interviews with excellent foreign media companies and excellent content exhibitions to enrich the event.

"We would like to express our gratitude to the many people who participated in the 2018 Smart Content business," said Choi Yo-chul, chairman of the "Next Generation Convergence Contents Industry Association. "We will continue to create opportunities for companies to lead the industry of smart contents and smart city."

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