New attempt to promote Korean companies to domestic and foreign markets in post-coronavirus era!

AVING NEWS' Korea's only convention mediaand online exhibition center by itself, began this project to help Koreancompanies to enter the domestic and foreign markets through MIK HOT SPOT (Madein Korea Online Exhibition) on its way to become the global online hot spot.

The online exhibition consists of openingthe MIK ONLINE HOT SPOT exhibition, business introduction video for buyers andinvestors, domestic and global promotion, target promotion for MIK HOT SPOTnetwork, and post-management after contacting the buyers and investors, openfor 365 days a year.

The five companies that participated in theMIK HOT SPOT_Pangyo Technovalley 100 IT & CT special are as follows.△BluezenDrone △Hancom Mobility △Vietmate △Textory △Youneedcharacter

△BluezenDrone

BluezenDrone is a member of the large opensource flight stack PX4-based dronecode for commercial use, and it is a PX4platform technology development company representing Korea. BluezenDrone, whichhas established itself as a company specializing in industrial drone technologysolutions, continues to research and develop unmanned aerial system (UAS)technology, and it is engaged in various drone businesses.

Its business targets are finishedindustrial drone manufacturers, drone-based public and commercial serviceproviders, and industrial drones and drone operators for commercial systems. Itis closely cooperating with finished industrial drone manufacturers to develophardware and software for special devices such as flight control devices andmission computers and various technical solutions for the stability of dronesystems, and it is supplying them to finished product manufacturers.

△ Hancom Mobility

Hancom Mobility offers various hardware andsoftware in the parking industry like Parking Friends, a shared parking servicefor real-time search and reservation of parking spaces, Parking Friends, theshared parking payment service, PF Sensor, the IoT parking sensor with the mostadvanced IoT communication network, PF Control System, the all-in-one solutionthat provides all infrastructure necessary for parking lot implementation, andPF Blocker, the BLE blocker for entry and exit management that works bysmartphones. The birthplace of Hancom Mobility is a startup company named MiraeNCT. Hancom Group acquired Mirae NCT in 2019 and entered the mobility business,and even changed the company name to Hancom Mobility.

“As Korea’s interest towards shared economyservice increased two to three years ago, people started sharing vehicles andaccommodations, and made it into business. That’s when Hyeon Jae-young, the CEOof Hancom Mobility, thought, “What if we share parking spaces?” By sharingparking lots based on the status information of the parking lot, it wouldbecome convenient as shown in began thinking about the business model. Theservice that was born from this thought is Malang Malang Parking Friends.Parking Friends provides real-time information on parking spaces withself-developed IoT sensors and CCTVs for safe and convenient parking servicesto parking space providers and drivers using parking spaces.

△Vietmate

Founded in 2017, Vietmate is an IT-basedtrading platform company that supports overseas market development for allVietnamese-related companies, and is helping domestic companies enter themarket through mobile, online, and offline channels. It is also providing thesystem that allows products to be delivered overseas directly from Korea. Thecompany's biggest strength is that it is able to support K-beauty in alldirections as it has 800,000 data of B2B official buyers related to cosmetics.

Currently, with an exclusive contract,Vietmate is running the Zalo Shop Korean Pavilion in the e-commerce platform ofZalo, a national messenger (100 million subscribers) of Vietnam. With this, themarketing effect can be maximized by exposing the brands of Korean companies.It is also supporting the online sales of Korean companies with Shopee andSendo, the top companies in Vietnam's online e-commerce shops.

△Textory

Lee Seong-ro, the CEO of TexTory, iscreating a new paradigm of communication based on text and story. About thebusiness, he said, “All conversations we have with people we meet andcommunication by phone calls and text messages are expressed as the word“text,” and making the text as a story to provide services is our business.”

Ten years ago, Lee was in the broadcastingindustry, and he made a radio show listener management service called MNStudio. He said" “Nowadays, most broadcasting stations use the listenermanagement service to check the stories sent by the listeners in the past andcommunicate in real time. I founded TexTory with the assurance that thistechnology can be used to start a new business.” TexTory automatically savescommunication details with all customers, such as phone calls and texts, in thecloud with an app on the smartphone, and when communicating with the customer,such information is popped up on the phone to easily check customer informationand history at a glance.

△Youneedcharacter

Youneedcharacter (CEO Song Min-soo), aresident company of the ICT-culture convergence center operated by the MSIT andNIPA, launched the children's AR English learning product Cricket Pang AR FlashCard in major domestic online markets such as Coupang and Gmarket.

Cricket Pang AR Flash Card was produced byusing the character IP of the TV animation Cricket Pang which Youneedcharacterhas made on its own. You can study English words by recognizing the word cardimage and watching the AR animation on the mobile phone. The app can bedownloaded for free (Cricket Pang AR Flash Card) from Google Play or Apple AppStore. The cute character animation, intuitive interface, and easy and simpleusage draw children’s attention.

Cricket Pang AR Flash Card was produced asa verified content by having the former and current English educationinstructors and content experts choose the words, so the students can study ontheir own with the flashcards. It is attracting attention as a product thatenables safe and enjoyable English learning through untact learning using themobile AR app.

Pangyo Techno Valley, which participated inMIK HOT SPOT (Made in Korea Online Exhibition), is a business platform wherecompanies with innovative products and technologies are gathered. About 1,300companies in IT, CT, and BT sectors are based here. Innovative companies withglobal capabilities like Kakao, NHN Entertainment, AhnLab, Krafton, NCSOFT,Nexon, and Hancom, and advanced technology research institutes like AdvancedInstitute of Convergence Technology, KAIST, ETRI, and KETI are workingtogether.

The global news network AVING News hasbegun holding the MIK Hot Spot (Made in Korea Online Exhibition) to help smalland medium-sized companies enter the market and attract investment 365 days ayear. AVING News has been running online exhibitions since 2005 and had 975 onlineexhibitions so far. Its YouTube online exhibition has placed itself as Korea’slargest online exhibition hall that opens with 19,000 videos (booths) with morethan 800,000 visits per month which means more than 10 million visits per year.

The MIK HOT SPOT online exhibition isscheduled to be held regularly according to the field, target market, andparticipating institutions, and it will be presented as a new type of onlinebusiness by transforming the know-hows and values of the participating companiesaccording to the trend. Companies that want to participate can apply and applythrough the marketing support projects from supporting institutions in thelocal governments. Refer to the institutions for more information.

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