Ubergizmo Discovery #2: Chatting with Korea’s Silicon Valley

In this episode of Ubergizmo Discovery, we jump in a video call with prominent Pangyo Techno Valley actors. Pangyo is Korea's Silicon Valley.

I went to Pangyo (map) a few years ago, and it is a brand new techno-city nether immense expansion. Things looked new and super-modernistic back then, but our friends in the call told me that what I've seen is probably 20%-25% of the overall Pangyo Techno Valley project, and so I'm glad we had a take chances to catch up for a fleck.

If you lot don't know of Pangyo and the potential business organisation opportunities there, here'southward the 10,000 feet view. Pangyo is part of Gyeonggi-exercise ("do" is like to "province"), which is a vast expanse surrounding the urban center of Seoul. It's nearly one/8^th of the total size of Due south Korea.

Pangyo is located between Gangnam (Seoul) and Suwon, which is also chosen "Samsung City" because of the enormous city-size campus. Suwon is where Samsung mobile phones are designed, amongst other things. I've been to Suwon several times since 2013, and I tin can ostend the nickname is well deserved.

The Pangyo Techno Valley'due south innovative ecosystem is driven by the Gyeonggido Business organization & Science Accelerator (GBSA), a government-funded arrangement that helps South Korean innovators at the state level.

The chat was moderated by Alex Sigrist who speaks Korean and facilitated by Aving News, our media partner on this episode. Mr. Moon Young Lim, the Future Growth Policy Bureau Officer, was kind enough to tell us about the history of Pangyo and how it is funded and nurtured past the Southward Korean government as an innovation hub.

In the video below, nosotros casually talk about various topics during the one-hr telephone call. I'm giving you lot all the straight video links below, so you can spring direct to the function that is of interest to you lot. If you have questions, feel complimentary to drop a annotate on YouTube.

2:37 – Moon Young Lim introduces himself and his system (in Korean)
iv:03 – translation of Mr. Moon's introduction
6:31 – Mr. Moon asks Hubert most housing in Silicon Valley and how the proximity of Universities afflicted Silicon Valley.
8:48 – Hubert asks Mr. Moon what's the driving force (and coin) behind the Pangyo Techno Valley
9:04 – Mr. Moon'southward answer (in Korean)
ten:xi – Translated answer from Mr. Moon

Alex Sigrist continues the discussion for the Pangyo side and presents "what Pangyo is" in item, earlier going over different products and interesting Pangyo news. Timecodes beneath:

xiii:05 – What Pangyo Techno Valley is, in details
33:00 – Pangyo news highlights (NFTs among other things)
37:15 – AhnLab next-gen firewall
38:50 – Naver invests in TBCASoft (Blockchain)
41:32 – SK Bio Vaccine gets Phase-three approval
43:27 – Kakao'due south founder becomes the richest human being in Korea
44:33 – NCSoft's ESG game industry report
45:05 – Nexon CEO resigns
45:43 – Link vs. Klaytn crypto contest

Then it's my plough to talk over topics that defenseless my attention, related to AI and Space technologies. The webcast embed is at the terminate of this commodity:

48:57 – Hubert talks about AI in manufacturing
53:57 – AI for agriculture
55:43 – AI that understands Human Beliefs (for Self-driving) + AI learning to drive in a virtual world
59:twenty – AI, Border computing = old silicon valley + new silicon valley
1:01:33 – Space tech is fascinating now… particularly for terrestrial business organization.

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Source: https://www.ubergizmo.com/2021/09/ubergizmo-discovery-002/

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