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Technology
Company
Overview
Konan Technology is an AI software company. Established in 1999, Konan Technology focuses on unstructured big data analysis technology for over 25 years.
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Company Name
Konan Technology Inc. -
CEO
Young Sum Kim
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Date of Establishment
April 1999
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Core Technologies
Text AI, Video AI, Digital Twin
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Key Products
Konan LLM, Konan Search/Analytics/Chatbot, Konan Watcher, Konan Voice, PHM, AI Pilot
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No. of Employees
245
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Address
327, Gangnam-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul
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Corporate Type
KOSDAQ-Listed Company
Customer
Based on the accumulated consumer trust for over 25 years, Konan Technology has secured more than 2,500 customers ranging from large corporations such as Hyundai Motor Company, Samsung Electronics, and SK Telecom to public institutions.
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2,500
Customers
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3,000
Projects
Enterprise
Public Institution
Finance
Commerce
Media
Education
Company
History
For the past 20 years, we have built a strong technology foundation in the unstructured data analysis field. For the upcoming 10 years, we will write history as a leading AI company related to image, voice and text.
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2024
Contract 'Generation AI Project' with Korea Southern Power Corporation
Honored with the Minister's Prize at the Korea AI Industry Awards
Selected as an 'Emerging AI+X Top 100 Company' for 4 consecutive years
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2023
Selected as 「Defense Innovative Company 100」
Completion of the ‘Defense Intelligent Platform’ project for R.O.K MND
Released document generation AI, ‘Konan LLM’
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2022
Konan Technology (402030) listed on KOSDAQ
Business agreement with 'KAI' to strengthen AI-based aerospace technology
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2017
Started applying AI technology to commercial products
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2009
Provide video-search technology for Nate Portal
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2007
Provide integrated search services for Nate Portal and Cyworld
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2006
Business alliance with SK Communications established
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2005
Overseas incorporated company Konan Digital Inc. established
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2004
Launched SBS Digital News based on 'Konan DigitalArc'
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2001
MOEG7, Konan image-search technology selected as international standard
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1999
Konan Technology established
Vision
Our AI technologies empower enterprises to make faster, better decisions.
Business
Information
Konan Technology focuses on technology commercialization to develop AI that ‘watch, listen, understand, and speak’ like human-beings do.
Featured
Products
Text AI
To understand the intention of the speaker.
Konan LLM is an on-premise ‘Document Generation AI’ for B2B/B2G. It boasts Korean document generation having the largest number of Korean tokens. Also, it provides accurate and well-founded answers through self-developed Vector Search engine-based RAG.
Konan Search is an "AI-based multimodal search engine" that understands the user's situation and intentions. You can search by taking a picture without typing, and you can search for synonyms /similar expressions by vector search without using a synonym dictionary.
Konan Chatbot is an AI-based conversational agent that upgrades businesses by providing high quality conversational services. It provides conversational services that are based on natural language understanding, text mining, machine learning, and deep learning technologies.
Konan Chatbot Plus is an AI-based translation service that allows real-time conversations in various languages. It provides more natural communication with foreigners in their native language through high-quality speech recognition and machine translation technology.
Konan Analytics is an 'intelligent text analytic engine' that discovers business insights through structured and unstructured data analysis using machine learning, AI, and data science based technologies.
pulse-K is a real-time analytic service that analyzes current online issues and finds business signals using AI-based data science technology.
Video AI
Recognize objects in video, such as people, faces, voices, and situations, to understand the context of video scene.
Konan Watcher is a solution that can identify various multimodal such as faces, entities, situations and scenes in video contents and can be applied to public, broadcasting, and national defense fields.
Konan Listener is an end-to-end voice recognition engine solution that automatically generates subtitles from various video contents by combining and utilizing technologies such as video processing, natural language processing etc.
Konan Voice is ‘3D Character-Integrated Text-to-Speech (TTS) service’ for B2B/B2C. It automatically lip-syncs and dubs a 3D character with just the script text. Additionally, it can express 6 emotions and provides natural high-quality sound with a MOS of over 4.5.
Digital Twin
System diagnosis, prediction, and optimal decision-making by PBDL and RL with digital twins.
Konan PHM can have a dramatic impact on manufacturing operations by PBDL and RL with digital twins.
Konan AI Pilot implements drone autonomous driving and unmanned flight training using reinforcement learning.
Leadership
Youngsum Kim CEO
Ph.D. in electrical and communications engineering, Hanyang University
Senior Researcher, ETRI
Bellcore Research from U.S.A.
Youngsum Kim, he has been asked his top business priorities, he always replies"Our people are our top competitive advantage."
Under this management philosophy, he has built a strong organizational culture based on autonomy.
And he has focused on artificial intelligence business development that encompasses image, voice and text from its inception to the present.
Seunghyun Yang CTO
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Seoul National University
Senior Researcher, ETRI
BM Natural Language Processing Researcher, Seoul National University
SKT CTO concurrently
Seunghyun Yang has directed the company's technology innovation based on the principle of creating well-made products that are minimalistic and faithful to the basic function of the product.
As a result, It has become the only AI software company in Korea that uses its own 'K-language' as its source code and trains AI models with its own deep learning framework.
Deokho Yoon Vice President
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Seoul National University
Professor, Hannam University
Deokho Yoon is in charge of developing a flexible deep learning framework for next-generation AI research and development.
Additionally, he had led the development of ""SBS Digital Newsroom System"" that adopted a digital TV news production system for the first time in South Korea.
Youngchang Song CFO
Bachelor of Laws, Seoul National University
KTB, Heungkuk Life Insurance
Youngchang Song has a background in excellent investment management and has over 29 years of
experience in the financial field.
Before joining Konan Technology, he was in charge of investment management at KTB Network and management planning at Heungkuk Life.
Wantaek Lim Managing Director
Bachelor of Computer Science and Statistics, Seoul National University
Head of Mobile Division, KTH
Senior Invited Researcher, KISTI
Wantaek Lim is a strategic planning expert with over 10 years of experience.
Prior to joining Konan Technology, he was in charge of the mobile businesses such as Pudding Camera, Pudding Face Recognition service, location-based SNS service "I'm in",
at KTH.
Jungju Choi Executive Director
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Postech
Professor, Department of Media at Ajou University
Senior Researcher, ETRI
Academic Chairperson, Korea Computer Graphics Society
Jungju Choi is the head of research and development for digital twin and metaverse technologies.
He has a number of research achievements and publications in computer graphics, such as standardization of '3D digital human models' and 'Haptic rendering to improve immersion'.