HancomWith said on Wednesday it held a company and solution briefing for Japanese business representatives visiting South Korea through the Korea-Japan Nikkei Open Innovation Cooperation Day, co-hosted by KOTRA and Nikkei. Attendees included officials from the hosts, winners of Nikkei THE PITCH startup programme and executives from major Japanese companies. HancomWith introduced and demonstrated its authentication and TLS/SSL certificate automation solutions and shared its local business progress targeting Japan’s finance and public sectors.

South Korea will support the domestic commercialisation of 20 teams of overseas Korean technology talent working in super-gap fields including AI, advanced robots, bio and aerospace, the government said. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency held a K-TECH Pioneers orientation in Seoul on July 10. The programme aims to support the return and settlement of overseas Korean talent and is linked to a government policy on securing leading AI technologies and talent.