Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation - World Bank "Expansion of Korean Mobile ID and Strengthening Partnership"

Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO) is strengthening its partnership with the World Bank to promote the spread of the Korean-style mobile ID. The World Bank is identifying best practices of national IDs to provide reliable digital identity authentication services to developing countries.

KOMSCO announced on the 3rd that it recently held a meeting with the World Bank at the headquarters of RaonSecure in Seoul to discuss ways to enhance their partnership.

At a meeting held by the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation and the World Bank, participants are discussing ways to spread the Korean-style mobile ID implementation case to developing countries. Provided by Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

The meeting was attended by Lim Dohyun, KOMSCO ICT Director, staff members, World Bank officials, Lee Yujin, Vice President of RaonSecure, and representatives from LG CNS and other related parties.

The Korean-style mobile ID is a national mobile ID project led by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, with KOMSCO designated as the specialized mobile ID institution responsible for planning and implementing the overall project.

Starting with the mobile government employee ID in 2020, followed by the mobile driver’s license in 2022, and last year the mobile national veterans registration card, mobile IDs have been sequentially applied, increasing their usage. Next year, mobile resident registration cards will be issued to citizens aged 17 and older.

Based on the utilization cases and excellence of the Korean-style mobile ID, KOMSCO and the World Bank plan to strengthen their partnership by discussing ways to transfer related technologies and knowledge to developing countries that have not yet introduced digital IDs, and to support the establishment of ecosystems that can utilize them.

The Korean-style mobile ID K-DID case study report is scheduled to be uploaded to the World Bank’s ID4D project website in the second half of this year. ID4D is the World Bank’s digital ID project aimed at providing identity authentication services to all people, including low-income and vulnerable groups in developing countries.

At the meeting, Director Lim said, “We have recently received requests for the introduction of the Korean-style mobile ID ‘K-DID’ from Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia, as well as Latin American countries like Costa Rica and Paraguay,” and added, “We hope the World Bank will cooperate and support so that Korea’s digital ID can be disseminated to countries aiming to build and develop digital governments.”

A World Bank official responded to Director Lim’s request, saying, “We will strive to prepare measures to support the actual sharing and dissemination of Korea’s K-DID implementation cases to developing countries.”

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