Urban Sharing Platform Opens Nation's First Unmanned Convenience Store Selling Alcohol in Seongnam

Customers are purchasing products while trying out the Korean-style unmanned sales brand 'IceGo 24' at the AI unmanned convenience store in Godeung-dong, Seongnam, for three days.

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] A smart convenience store that sells products such as alcoholic beverages 24 hours a day, year-round, without staff has opened for the first time in Korea near Pangyo Valley in Seongnam.

On the 4th, Doshi Sharing Platform opened a smart store equipped with various unmanned operation technologies, including Korea's first approved AI (artificial intelligence) unmanned alcohol sales technology, through the regulatory sandbox of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy at the Hyundai Knowledge Industry Center in Godeung-dong, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi Province.

The 60㎡ (18-pyeong) store is equipped with 14 vending machines applying the technology of 'AISS Go24,' a Korean-style unmanned sales brand independently developed by Doshi Sharing Platform. There are also unmanned coffee and cigarette vending machines available.

Customers can conveniently and cheaply purchase ready-to-eat meals, traditional liquor, soju, beer, wine, snacks, and beverages here, and AI automatically processes the entire payment process by itself.

In particular, small business owners such as restaurant owners can visit and operate the AI unmanned vending machines to experience the future vision of the Korean-style unmanned sales system.

Along with the 'AI unmanned alcohol vending machine,' which is the only one approved for this company through the regulatory sandbox, advanced vending machines related to the 'Smart Supermarket' and 'Smart Store' projects promoted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups for small business owners are also installed.

The Smart Supermarket project is a plan by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to transform 4,000 neighborhood supermarkets nationwide into smart supermarkets capable of unmanned operation over the next five years starting this year, and the Smart Store project is a business to apply unmanned advanced systems to 20,000 small business stores such as restaurants this year to reduce labor.

Park Jin-seok, CEO of Doshi Sharing Platform, said, "This is a space where small business owners struggling with store operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic can visit anytime to experience the order and payment system and the future advanced AI technology," adding, "It is a place where you can experience various advanced systems that have perfectly solved theft and payment security issues that have occurred in some unmanned stores so far."

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