Yisang-il, Mayor of Yongin, Attends MWC... Encourages Yongin Companies and Export Interns

4 Young Interns Assist Business Activities On-site
"Will Actively Support Local Companies Going Forward"

Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, visited the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 held in Barcelona, Spain on the 27th (local time) to observe the latest trends in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, and telecommunications, and to encourage representatives of Yongin-based companies participating in the exhibition.

MWC 2024, which opened on the 26th, is one of the world's top three information technology (IT) exhibitions alongside the US CES and Germany's IFA. Yongin City established the "Yongin Special City Pavilion" at this exhibition to showcase the technologies and products of four local companies and support their exports and overseas expansion. Among domestic local governments, only Yongin City and Gyeongsangbuk-do have set up separate spaces and booths at this year’s MWC.

Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin (6th from the left), who visited the 'Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024' held in Barcelona, Spain, is taking a commemorative photo with representatives of Yongin companies participating in the exhibition.
[Photo by Yongin City]

To support companies, the city covered most of the costs for booth installation, equipment, and transportation at MWC, and provided necessary equipment and interpreters for product promotion of participating companies.

In particular, the city applied Mayor Lee Sang-il’s pledge of the export intern system for the first time to Yongin companies participating in MWC. Accordingly, four university students from Dankook University’s Regional Specialized Youth Trade Expert Training Project (GTEP) are supporting Yongin companies at the exhibition at the city’s expense. The export intern support program is a project started last year through an agreement between the city and the Dankook University GTEP project team, dispatching interns who have received specialized trade education to companies to assist small and medium-sized enterprises lacking manpower in developing sales channels.

The "Yongin Special City Pavilion" features four companies: EmotionWave, which developed a virtual studio platform that connects AI-generated music performance data to various instruments such as drums for playback; ActionTech, which developed a rapid automatic extinguishing system that activates connected fire extinguishing devices immediately when a fire breaks out in machinery; Team Player, which developed a system for free mass transmission of mobile phone messages; and NDS Solution, which showcased solutions and kiosks that allow easy content creation without complex coding.

Mayor Lee visited the Yongin Special City Pavilion, the KOTRA and Korea International Trade Association group pavilions to thoroughly examine the technologies and products of participating companies and encourage the officials. He also visited the SK Telecom Pavilion, the startup pavilion supported by SK Telecom, the Samsung Electronics Pavilion, the KT Pavilion, and the Israel National Pavilion.

Mayor Lee said, "This is the first time Yongin Pavilion has been set up at MWC," adding, "This demonstrates the city’s determination to support local companies as much as possible." He further stated, "I hope that Yongin companies participating in MWC will grow even more through this experience."

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