The representatives of the companies that signed MOUs on NiCloud with the National Information Society(NIA) including the Korea Airports Corp., Information, Communication Industry Promotion Institute, Korea Energy Corp. and the National Parks Management Corp. hold the copies of the MOUs in this photo taken on Oct. 29 at the NIA head office.(Photo: KAC)

Korea Airports Corp. (KAC) is ready to make moves to advance its administrative services by importing cloud computing software so the public service sector can join many public firms as they make similar moves, taking advantage of the recent enforcement of the Cloud Computing Law for the development and protection of cloud computing and its users in Korea. On Oct. 29, KAC signed an MOU on cooperation to expand the next-generation cloud computing business environment (NICloud) with the National Information Society Agency under the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning to push its scheme to import cloud-computing software to help improve its public services.

Cloud computing is a storage system for information and data in high-capacity computers connected to the Internet for use whenever and wherever they are needed. When a cloud computing service is accessible for use by KAC employees, they will always be able to check information and data with smartphones and mobile computers no matter where they are, even while on the road for company business.

Korea, Japan Airport Personnel Ink Deal for Mutual Cooperation

Japan Airport Terminal (JAT), and Tokyo International Air Terminal Corporation (TIAT) have been involved in talks with Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) with regard to mutual cooperation and collaboration on assistance services for passengers using Haneda Airport and Gimpo Airport in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Pyeongchang and the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo. The three companies recently concluded a memorandum of business cooperation, “We will work together to improve our services by promoting greater mutual cooperation and collaboration in order to provide a seamless, one-stop service to wheelchair users and other passengers requiring assistance from departure to arrival on all travel routes between Haneda and Gimpo airports,” according to an outline of the memorandum. 

The official memorandum was signed July 21 at Domestic Terminal 1, Haneda Airport. Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) is also involved in other international deals. 

KAC is exporting airport equipment patent technology to Equatorial Guinea in Africa. The company announced on May 19 that it will install boarding bridges and baggage handling systems with its technology at the passenger terminal building of Mongomeyen Airport, located in Equatorial Guinea in Africa.

KAC’s patented boarding bridge technology can improve the convenience for passengers in wheelchairs by making the medial and lateral sloes between tunnels horizontal. 

KAC’s baggage handling system is a double-sloped 3D carousel system which can be effective even in a confined space. It also cut construction and operating costs, improves the convenience of baggage receipts and reduces risks of damage. KAC is currently establishing boarding bridges in Gimpo Airport and Gimhae Airport, and will install its double-sloped carousel baggage handling system in Cheongju International Airport in the second half of this year.

It’s not the first time a Korean company has been involved in the aviation industry in Equatorial Guinea.

Ssangyong Engineering & Construction won a project bid to build a new passenger terminal building at Mongomeyen Airport there in 2014, and the new airport terminal is currently under construction with a goal being operational in August 2017.