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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.

  • Company Name

    Konan Technology Inc.
  • CEO

    Young Sum Kim

  • Date of Establishment

    April 1999

  • Core Technologies

    Text AI, Video AI, Digital Twin

  • Key Products

    Konan LLM, Konan Search/Analytics/Chatbot, Konan Watcher, Konan Voice, PHM, AI Pilot

  • No. of Employees

    245

  • Address

    327, Gangnam-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul

  • 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.

  • 2,500

    Customers

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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’

  • 2022

    Konan Technology (402030) listed on KOSDAQ

    Business agreement with 'KAI' to strengthen AI-based aerospace technology

  • 2017

    Started applying AI technology to commercial products

  • 2009

    Provide video-search technology for Nate Portal

  • 2007

    Provide integrated search services for Nate Portal and Cyworld

  • 2006

    Business alliance with SK Communications established

  • 2005

    Overseas incorporated company Konan Digital Inc. established

  • 2004

    Launched SBS Digital News based on 'Konan DigitalArc'

  • 2001

    MOEG7, Konan image-search technology selected as international standard

  • 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 / Director of Vision AI Research Institute

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.

Seungki Kim Vice President / Head of Business Operations

CEO, Ssangyong Information & Communications

Executive Director and Research Center Head, Osstem Implant

Seungki Kim is an IT industry veteran with over 35 years of expertise in IT and business management. He served as the CEO of Ssangyong Information & Communications and as the Head of the Software Product Research Center at Osstem Implant.

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.

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'.

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.

Wonchul Do Managing Director

Master of Computer Science, Hongik University

General Director of Technology, Handysoft corp.

Wonchul Do is head of research and development for LLM and chatbot. Prior to joining Konan Technology, he was head of developing collaboration software such as Groupware, BPM(Business Process Management System) and KMS(Knowledge Management System) at Handysoft corp.

Changmin Oh Managing Director

M.S. in Computer Science, Seoul National University

SW Engineer, Empas,Inc.

Changmin Oh leads a group focused on developing the company's search/analytics products and researching LLM training and optimization. He is particularly interested in designing search systems, ranging from edge devices to large-scale systems handling billions of records.

Hyunmin Lee Director

M.D. in Computer Science, Chonnam National University

Senior Researcher, A-Lab

Hyunmin Lee conducted Nate Semantic Search project leveraging her expertise in NLP technologies. She also developed Konan Analytics, a product for unstructured text analysis. Currently, she is managing pulseK, an online media analysis service based on real-time data collection and analysis.

Youngjoo Suh Managing Director

Ph.D. in Information and Communications Engineering, KAIST

Associate Research Professor, KAIST

Researcher, ETRI

Youngjoo Suh is the head of the Voice Group. He has been actively conducting R&D in the field of Speech AI, with a primary focus on speech recognition and speech synthesis, in both academia and industry for over 30 years. He has published dozens of papers, including 'Probabilistic Class Histogram Equalization Based on Posterior Mean Estimation for Robust Speech Recognition' in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

Mansoo Kim Managing Director

M.S. in Computer Science, Kyungpook National University

Managing Director, Cognent9

Primary Co-founder, DigitalAria

Researcher, ETRI

Mansoo Kim is leading the Digital Twin Group. The Digital Twin Group is engaged in research and development of equipment health prediction and autonomous flight technology for UAVs in the manufacturing, aerospace, and defense sectors. He has recently become interested in developing technologies that integrate digital twin and artificial intelligence.

Minho Ahn Director

Ph.D in applied mathematics form Pohang University of Science & Technology

Managing Director, Creverse Inc.

Technical Director, Unity Technologies Inc.

Minho Ahn is leading the development of AI Pilot, a critical component for next-generation air forces. His research focuses on creating intelligent agents that enhance human strategic decision-making under information constraints, utilizing advanced reinforcement learning techniques and linguistic geometry. Additionally, he developed FXUI, a vector graphics-based embedded GUI solution currently deployed in over 100 million devices.

Hyunsu Kang Director

Master of Computer Science and Statistics, Chunbuk National University

Systran(Korea) Development Group Leader

Hyunsu Kang has a lot of experience in natural language processing. Recently, he has been applying object recognition technology and reinforcement learning technology using drones to the defense field.

Hansang Cho Director

M.S. in Mathematics, Postech

Former Research Director of AI Lab, Cognet9

Former Research Director of Computer Vision Lab, Zenitum

Hansang Cho is a Computer vision engineer with over 20 years of experience. He is responsible for developing Computer vision and MLOps solutions. Additionally, he has a strong interest in AI infrastructure, recognizing its critical role in supporting AI applications.