Competition in offline payment terminals is heating up as face payment draws attention and spreads, prompting Naver Pay and Toss to race to expand merchant networks. Naver Pay is pushing its Npay Connect terminal, linking payments to reviews, coupons and other services, and says installations have surpassed 100,000 stores. Toss is expanding FacePay use cases with its Toss Front terminal, citing growth to over 6 million registered users and widening partnerships and events.

Pulmuone’s supply chain management executive Ahn Soon-sik (안순식) said the food company is applying AI on Snowflake’s platform to build an SCM intelligence project and that creating AI-ready data is critical. He said short shelf life makes demand errors costly and overseas operations add complexity. Pulmuone spent over six months cleansing and standardising data and built a two-layer knowledge base. Internal tests showed AI analysis matched Snowflake data, and a modelling shift was completed in three weeks using Coco.