SKT Provides AI Care Service for Elderly Living Alone in Chuncheon City

Chuncheon City and Gangwon Information and Culture Industry Promotion Agency Sign MOU for 'Creating Social Value Based on ICT Technology'
Special School Students Also Receive Software Education through 'Happy Coding School'

On the 15th, at Chuncheon City Hall, Kim Heung-seong, Director of Gangwon Information and Culture Promotion Agency (left), Lee Jae-su, Mayor of Chuncheon (center), and Lee Junho, Head of SK Telecom SV Promotion Group, are posing for a commemorative photo at the 'Business Agreement Ceremony for Creating Social Value Based on ICT Technology.'
[Photo by SK Telecom]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heung-soon] SK Telecom is creating an ICT environment to care for elderly people living alone in Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province, and to educate students at special schools.

On the 16th, SK Telecom announced that it signed a "Business Agreement for Creating Social Value Based on ICT Technology" with Chuncheon City and the Gangwon Information and Culture Promotion Agency at Chuncheon City Hall. Through this agreement, starting next month, the "AI Care Service" using the voice recognition artificial intelligence (AI) speaker "NUGU" will be expanded for 200 elderly people aged 65 or older living alone in Chuncheon.

The AI Care Service is an ICT-linked welfare service that SK Telecom started last April in cooperation with local governments and the social enterprise "Happy Eco Phone," targeting elderly people living alone in various local governments. It also provides emotional conversations, music streaming services, weather, health knowledge, and other information. In emergencies, it can call 119 by voice alone.

SK Telecom also plans to conduct software education called "Happy Coding School" for students of Gyesung School and Myeongjin School, special schools in Chuncheon. Happy Coding School is a program that uses the smart robot "Albert" and offers a customized curriculum according to the type of disability and learning ability, making it easy and fun to approach basic math concepts and coding.

In addition, a 5GX service complex experience space including a virtual reality (VR) cinema and an augmented reality (AR) zoo will be created around the Chuncheon Seomyeon Animation Museum area.

Lee Junho, head of SK Telecom’s Social Value (SV) Promotion Group, said, "We will continuously seek ways to open and share SK Telecom’s advanced ICT technology with various local governments and institutions to solve social challenges and create diverse social values." Kim Heung-seong, director of the Gangwon Information and Culture Promotion Agency, pledged, "Based on SK Telecom’s world-class ICT technology, we will lead efforts to solve Chuncheon’s pressing issues, create social value, and revitalize the Chuncheon regional ICT industry."

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