Academic Societies and Cable TV Join Forces to Enter Online Education and Content Industry

The Korean Multimedia Society Signs Business Agreement with LG HelloVision Busan Broadcasting
Cooperation to Promote ICT Content and Online Education in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution

President Kim Chi-yong of the Korea Multimedia Society (right, Dean of the ICT College at Dong-Eui University) and Lee Jae-hyun, Director of the Busan Media Bureau at LG HelloVision, are taking a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The country's largest multimedia society and a regional comprehensive cable broadcasting company have joined hands to enter the online education business.

The Korea Multimedia Society (President Kim Chi-yong, Dean of ICT Engineering College at Dong-Eui University) signed a business agreement on October 16 at the LG HelloVision Busan Broadcasting Studio in Haeundae-gu, Busan with LG HelloVision Busan Media Bureau to promote the ICT content industry and online education business in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Both organizations agreed to mutually cooperate in △producing a broadcasting-based online education platform △joint research on video convergence technology development △training leading personnel in design convergence, among other areas.

Kim Chi-yong, President of the Korea Multimedia Society (Professor of Game Animation Engineering at Dong-Eui University), said, “Starting with LG HelloVision Busan Broadcasting's support for online broadcasting for the successful operation of the Korea Multimedia Society's Fall Academic Conference to be held in Yeosu this November, we plan to mutually cooperate in joint research and technology development in various fields leading the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.”

Since its founding in Busan in 1997, the Korea Multimedia Society has grown into the largest domestic society in IT and ICT applied fields such as multimedia, games, film and video media, and software, with about 7,000 members nationwide.

It has been recognized for excellence as an academic organization by achieving high scores in journal evaluations registered with the Korea Research Foundation and in journal preference surveys conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

In addition, it actively conducts research exchanges with academia, research institutes, and industry by presenting the latest research and technology development achievements through domestic and international academic conferences and international workshops.

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