Administrator Jung Dong-hee of the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) called for active participation in standardizing activities for corporate innovative growth to brace for the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
KATS Administrator Jung made the remarks at a ceremony to mark the 2017 anniversary of World Standards Day on Oct. 19. “Standards not only guarantee interoperability among technologies, but also set new guidelines for sustainable society,” he said. Administrator Jung urged companies to be aggressively engaged in standardization activities for their innovative growth to correspond to an era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
The World Standards Day anniversary event, hosted by the KATS, took place at the Construction Hall in Nonhyeon-dong, southeastern Seoul. World Standards Day was designated by the world’s three standardization bodies – International Standardization Organization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – to mark the significance of standards and prize standardization achievements. Every year, 162 member countries hold World Standards Day anniversary events on Oct. 14. Korea has held an anniversary ceremony since 2000. The catchphrase of 2017 World Standards Day was ‘Standards make cities smarter.’ The 2017 World Standards Day event in Korea was the 18th rendition.
The coveted Order of Industrial Service, Silver Tower went to Shin Myung-jae, a member of the Standardization Management Board (SMB) of the IEC, in recognition of his leading roles in the inauguration of a technology committee on core technologies related to the 4th Industrial Revolution, including semiconductor printed board and wearable smart gadgets while serving at the IEC.
Prof. Lee Hee-soo of Pusan National University was awarded with the Service Merit Medal in recognition for assisting Korean ceramic companies’ entry into the global ceramic market, whose value stood at 79 trillion won as of 2015, through the standardizing of the measuring of the properties of fine ceramics. Kim Yoo-gyum of the FITI Testing & Research Institute, was presented with the Industrial Service Medal for his leading role in making Korea’s technology of evaluating natural dying an international standard. The order winners were among the 48 individuals and organizations who were honored with diverse government orders and other prizes.
Kang Kyung-tae, a senior researcher with the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), was one of the winners of IEC Thomas A. Edison Award, a prize the IEC presents to global experts for their contribution to standardization annually. Nine people, including President Lee Jong-muk, won the IEC 1906 Award.
World Standards Day happens on 14 October every year. The 2017 World Standards Day aims to highlight the ways in which ‘Standards make cities smarter’.
Developing an integrated, interoperable Smart City is a challenge. A Smart City is beyond designing digital technologies that fit into the city. It is an intelligently thought through concept that pursues a quality urban lifestyle for its inhabitants with respect to resource efficiency and sustainability. Thus, combining the right set of resources with the respective suitable technology are the drivers that steer a city to become smart – from mobility to waste, energy to water supply, governance to buildings.
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