As COVID-19 is prolonged, education basedon an online platform that allows users to receive creative education usingvarious contents regardless of location is receiving great attention fromparents.

In line with this, We Creator, aneducational content brand of Sam Corporation (CEO Park Jae-beom), amedia-edutech company that is developing the Creator series, has captured thehearts of parents by introducing various educational programs.

Sam Corporation is a new media educationcompany focusing on storytelling and interaction. Especially, the image cardgame introduced by We Creator is becoming enormously popular in the market withits story-based creative learning method as well as open thinking by openingthe way to various interpretations rather than just memorizing.

We conducted a non-face-to-face interviewwith a staff from Sam Corporation to listen to more details.

Q1. What kind of company is Sam Corporation?

Sam Corporation was founded in 2017, and it is developing products and services to enter the global market. We entered France in 2018 and introduced We Creator there. This experience presented us the vision to enter the global market, so we made a detailed business model. In 2019, Story Creator was introduced in the gifted class at Burnett Creek Elementary School in Indiana, US, and received good responses from students.

In 2020, we conducted crowdfunding and started developing an online platform. In 2021, we participated in the MWC Barcelona online exhibition. Also, we are meeting various global business partners through our Silicon Valley corporation in the United States.

Q2. Please introduce Sam Corporation’s edutech solution.

Our first online platform Story Creator isa platform where people from all over the world jointly form a project tocreate stories and storyboards, and creators from various fields canparticipate. Creators in various fields such as creators who create stories,designers who design characters, and artists who create background images cancollaborate to create content.

We have created a system that allowscreators to generate revenue while sharing each other's content, and we aredeveloping a system in which revenue is automatically distributed for creators.Now, we can create contents more quickly and easily with AI technologies TTSand STT. If we use the image matching technology in the future, even childrenwill be able to create contents.

We are currently printing out in storyboardand storybook modes. By the end of this year, we will launch the video mode, soanyone can make video without having to learn the software in our platform.

Q3. What are the specialties about Story Creator?

Story Creator, which is scheduled to belaunched on August 15 (Sun), has a function that an AI voice actor reads thestory through TTS. And, by using STT, voice is converted to text andautomatically added in the timeline, helping to reduce the editing time whenmaking videos.

You can invite friends to collaborate andorganize projects allows each person to share their roles and create content.The project is made in collaboration by a story creator, a character designer,a background designer, a photographer, a director and composition writer, and amusic manager, publishing the storyboard.

The published storyboard has a revenuegenerating system in which general users pay a reading fee and collaboratorsdivide the generated revenue. As a non-face-to-face platform where allprocesses of content viewing, transfer, and transaction are made anddistributed online, all related content and copyright management andtransactions will be managed with blockchain technology.

Q4. Is there any special meaning of launching on August 15?

Sam Corporation launched its products andservices on August 15 every year. August 15 is a date of great significance,but more than that, I want to make the growth and development of the companyparallel to this significant day so that we can share the development andvision of the Republic of Korea and introduce a new innovation of oureducation.

Through the opening of this online storycreator service, we hope that it will be an opportunity for everyone around theworld to freely create, share, and collaborate on content to enjoy the joy ofcreation.

Q5. Status of overseas market entrance

We are currently preparing to attractinvestment, and we are looking for a partner and cooperative investor who willcontribute to the long-term vision of challenge, innovation, creativity, andthe development of mankind, and create unchanging values for the world.

Also, we want to grow by formingpartnerships with local partners that will grow together in the US market. Wehope to find a partner who can publish Sam Corporation's products and serviceslocally and connect with partners who will create long-term joint growth.

Currently, we are receiving support forglobal advancement through Microsoft, MINDsLab, KAIST, Gwangju Institute ofScience and Technology, NIPA, and Korea Institute of Startups &Entrepreneurship, all collaborating with us to help us grow.

Recently, we moved into Silicon Valley inthe US through KIC, providing an important opportunity to advance into theglobal market. Also, Korea SMEs and Startups Agency is helping to enter theoverseas market in India and Singapore.

Q6. Future plans

Sam Corporation's global business, which starts as a story creator, will grow into an innovative content creation platform that brings out imagination and inspiration from content creators through the continuous launch of the creator series. Also, by using Story Creator, anyone can create content with their own stories and imaginations, and a world of infinite imagination will unfold when we complete making Ver. 2.0 where various stories and worldviews exist.