Gimhae City Yulha Cafe Street Selected as 'Smart Model Store' by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kang Woo-kwon] Gimhae City in Gyeongnam announced on the 25th that Yulha Cafe Street has been selected as a site for the 'Smart Pilot Shopping District' project promoted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Small Enterprise and Market Service.

The Smart Pilot Shopping District is a project that focuses on disseminating 4th Industrial Revolution technologies such as VR, AR, and IoT to foster small business owners as hubs for management and service innovation. It is also expected to contribute to the non-face-to-face and digital culture of consumption and distribution caused by the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

In the case of Yulha Cafe Street, it was selected as a complex-type pilot shopping district. The supported technologies are divided into smart technology and smart order according to the characteristics of small business sectors and workplaces.

Smart technology promotes management and service innovation through smart mirrors using VR and AR, robots that assist with serving and cooking, and more. Smart order leads to the introduction of a system that enables reservations, on-site orders, and payments using mobile devices.

Smart technology is allocated 5 million KRW per store (35 stores), and smart order is allocated 350,000 KRW per store (60 stores). The entire cafe street can receive up to 196 million KRW in support.

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups produces and distributes a booklet of smart technology holding companies so that technologies suitable for the characteristics of small business sectors and workplaces can be disseminated, and the shopping districts independently select technology holding companies to carry out the project.

Mayor Heo Seong-gon of Gimhae said, "With the rapid progress of non-face-to-face and digitalization in the consumption and distribution environment due to COVID-19, interest in smart technology among small business owners will grow even more," adding, "Through the successful introduction of the Smart Pilot Shopping District, we will transform into a city where small business owners can thrive in self-employment in line with the changes of the times."

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