Shinhan Bank is working with university students to improve older people’s access to digital financial services. The bank said it held a launch ceremony on Monday for the third cohort of its Digital Financial Education Assistants at its Shinhan Hakijae Incheon education centre. Fourteen Incheon National University students were selected. They will provide training on unmanned branches and mobile finance apps, fraud prevention, community AI and digital education, and produce tailored AI and digital finance content for seniors.

South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT will begin piloting 12 innovative services that combine artificial intelligence with digital twins, extended reality and other virtual convergence technologies, starting this month. The projects span safety, industry and everyday-life applications under two programmes focused on AI-based safety management and fostering virtual convergence industries. The ministry plans demonstrations ranging from disease prevention and gas-leak detection to port and shipyard control systems and tourism and hospital guidance services.