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Participating Companies

  • Finance that changes the world — KB Kookmin Card, your partner for a better life.

    With top talent and bold innovation, KB Kookmin Card leads change and innovation as a “first mover” in future finance through creative thinking and fearless challenges.

  • SK Ecoplant leads a sustainable future through innovative and differentiated solutions.
    With synergy created from high-tech, environment, energy, and solutions, SK Ecoplant generates essential value linked to customers’ core areas.
    Through this, it is establishing a unique global presence as a company that opens new possibilities across industries.
  • Global Leading EPC Contractor,
    Total Service Provider
    They focus all capabilities on becoming a sustainable company that provides better value to customers through differentiated competitiveness.
  • A global duty-free brand leading customer happiness, employee satisfaction, and future innovation.
    Hyundai Department Store Duty Free aims to be “THE NEW GLOBAL Travel Retail LEADER” and actively expands global business to promote the tourism and distribution industries both domestically and abroad.
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Collaboration
Cases

  • LemonTree — Allowance Management & Financial Education Service.

    KB Kookmin Card
    KB Kookmin Card provides processing services using its strong capabilities in card issuance, delivery, and payment infrastructure.
    LemonTree, an edu-fintech service provider, partnered with KB to launch the prepaid “Puffin Card” for kids.
    Through a metaverse-based app, children learn financial basics through quizzes and rewards.

    SITE LINK

  • Rebar Alternative Using Recycled PET

    SK Ecoplant
    SK Ecoplant becomes the first in the world to produce “glass fiber rebar” using PET bottles as raw material.
    Built production lines with KCMT and Carbon Fiber & Young.
    Glass fiber rebar emits less than half the carbon, doesn’t rust, has more than double the strength of steel, and weighs only 1/4.

    SITE LINK

  • Lotte Construction X JP E&C, Modular Brace Beam

    Lotte Construction
    Lotte Construction suggested improvements and provided field sites for testing the corner-connection issues.
    JPENC developed an adjustable connector jack.
    After PoC, installation efficiency and construction time greatly improved, leading to adoption at multiple sites.

    SITE LINK

  • Hyundai Duty Free X Hyper Cloud, AR Experience Exhibit “AR Adventure Pass”

    Hyundai Duty Free
    Provides AR-based shopping content for Korean & foreign tourists.
    Virtual AR docent in the Hyundai Duty Free app introduces major Seoul attractions.
    In-store AR glasses allow virtual tourism and coupon downloads.
    Boosts local tourism while offering a differentiated shopping experience.

    SITE LINK
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Collaboration
Cases

KB Kookmin Card

Recruitment
Fields

  • Co-Prosperity Finance
    SOHO/SME business support solutions
    Specialized services/content partnerships for small business owners
  • New Payment
    Expanding B2B card payment market
    Embedded card finance
    New merchant-linked payment services
  • AI & Data
    AI-based personalization and marketing
    Generative AI innovation for customer experience
  • New Consumption Trends
    Fandom, pets, aesthetics, gaming, etc.
SK Ecoplant

Recruitment
Fields

  • Semiconductor
    Productivity/safety improvement tech
    Wastewater recycling technology
    By-product recycling & cost reduction
  • Eco-Friendly
    Greenhouse gas & NOx reduction
    Eco/energy tech for apartments
  • Robotics / AI
    Robotics/AI for construction sites
  • Marine & Offshore Wind
    Long-term durability technologies
Lotte Construction

Recruitment
Fields

  • AI
    Structuring unstructured documents
  • Spatial Information & Cognition
    Spatial cognition for robotic tasks
    Automated spatial learning/analysis
  • Robotics / Automation
    Replacing repetitive tasks
    Replacing high-risk tasks
Hyundai Duty Free

Recruitment
Fields

  • Mobile-Linked Marketing
    Omnichannel solutions with mobile interaction
  • Generative AI
    AI customer service, recommendations, chatbots
  • Interactive Digital Content
    AR/VR interactive experience content
  • Tourism Tech
    Travel info & attraction recommendation tech
  • Other
    Tech for work efficiency & CX improvement

Benefits

  • Benefit 01
    - Meetups + network support
    Benefit 02
    - Data-driven value-up marketing
    Benefit 03
    - Fund/VC investment recommendation
  • Benefit 01
    - Joint tech development
    Benefit 02
    - Commercialization support
  • Benefit 01
    - Field sites + collaboration
    Benefit 02
    - Expanded implementation
    Benefit 03
    - Up to 10M KRW PoC funding
  • Benefit 01
    - Testbed spaces (on/offline stores)
    Benefit 02
    - Marketing via all Hyundai DF channels
    Benefit 03
    - Business meetups with internal teams

Follow-up Support Benefits

  • Benefit 01
    4M KRW commercialization award
    Benefit 02
    Incubation center residency
    Benefit 03
    Tech protection consulting
    Benefit 04
    Investment review via OI fund

Recruitment Schedule

  • 25. 4. 7.~25. 5. 2.

    Recruiting
    innovative startups

  • 25. 5. 8.~25. 5. 16.

    First review +
    result notice

  • The last week of May – the first week of June

    Meet-up week

  • AFTER MEET UP

    1:1 deep-dive
    meetings

  • AFTER MEET UP

    Collaboration
    selection

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Contact

Global Business Team, Seoul Creative Economy Innovation Center [yjkim20@ccei.kr]

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