Kyowon Group Builds Learning Center in Metaverse... Kyowon Tower Also Opens

Kyowon Group and Zigbang signed a business agreement for cooperation in the virtual office business at the virtual office Soma on the 31st of last month.

Kyowon Group announced on the 3rd that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for business cooperation in the metaverse (extended virtual world) with the proptech company Zigbang.

The signing ceremony took place on the 31st of last month at 'Soma,' a global virtual office developed by Zigbang. Key representatives from both companies, including Kyowon CEO Shin Young-wook and Zigbang CEO Ahn Sung-woo, attended remotely to discuss future cooperation plans.

Soma is a virtual office that combines the advantages of offline and remote work. It features a communication environment similar to offline settings, where avatars automatically reveal their faces and voices when they come close to each other.

Through this MOU, the two companies will work on building a virtual office specialized in education. They will jointly promote the development of related technologies and content, actively cooperating to introduce new educational spaces suitable for the metaverse era. Office spaces will also be provided for Kyowon Group’s partner companies and startups. The plan is to organically integrate the real and virtual worlds to offer an efficient work environment.

The first collaborative project will be the establishment of a metaverse learning center resembling actual academies and study rooms. It aims to support education industry workers such as academy operators and instructors in expanding learning spaces beyond offline limitations and geographical accessibility through the metaverse. The service will enable metaverse-based learning and interactive classes, providing more efficient learning than existing online methods.

Kyowon Group’s virtual office, 'Kyowon Tower,' will also be launched. By having avatars commute in the virtual space and offering a virtual office service that provides collaboration experiences similar to offline work, the goal is to support an efficient work environment even during remote work. Kyowon Tower will create a remote work environment where various partner companies and startups collaborating with Kyowon Group can use the space together to generate synergy.

A Kyowon Group official stated, “Through this business agreement, we have expanded our accumulated educational business capabilities into the metaverse space, enabling us to provide Kyowon’s services and content without physical constraints of time and space. We will continue to strengthen cooperation through the development of various metaverse services and infrastructure construction, not only for virtual learning centers but also in diverse fields.”

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