Samsung Electronics Appoints Subcommittee Chair at Wireless Communication Standardization Organization 3GPP

Samsung Research's Kim Yoon-sun Master, First Korean Elected as 3GPP Working Group Chair

[Asia Economy Reporter Eunmo Koo] Samsung Electronics announced on the 12th that Yoonseon Kim, Master at Samsung Research, was elected as the chair of the Radio Access Network Working Group 1 (RAN WG1) at the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) international standard meeting, a wireless communication international standardization technical cooperation organization. This is the first time a Korean has been elected chair among the 15 working groups within 3GPP.

3GPP is the world's largest technical standards organization developing standards for mobile communications, and RAN WG1 is the working group responsible for standardizing the physical layer technology of wireless access, which is a core part of mobile communication standards.

Master Yoonseon Kim is an expert with 20 years of experience in the field of communication standards and has represented Samsung Electronics in the RAN WG1 working group. Since 2017, he has served as the vice-chair of the group.

With this, Samsung Electronics has secured a total of five chair positions (2 chairs, 3 vice-chairs) across the 15 working groups of 3GPP, playing a leading role among the approximately 700 member companies of 3GPP.

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