President Kim Jang-hyun gives his inaugural speech as he took office as new president of KEPCO KDN on April 26. (Photos: KEPCO KDN)

Kim Jang-hyun, head of the ICT Business Division at KEPCO KDN, took office as new president of KEPCO KDN on April 26. His appointment as new KEPCO KDN president was approved during an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on April 16.

President Kim, born in 1958, graduated from Chung-Ang University. He entered Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and held major KEPCO positions, such as chief of Seoincheon Branch Office and head of the ICT Infrastructure Division.

Kim is evaluated to be a seasoned power ICT expert armed with leadership and technology expertise as he was honored with the minister of trade, industry and energy’s award in recognition for his contribution to the development of the ICT services of the power industry.

As he served as head of the ICT Business Division at KEPCO KDN, Kim had been credited with promoting public conveniences and prioritizing sustainable management by leading new industry businesses using technologies related to the 4th Industrial Revolution such as big data, Iot and AI.

In his inaugural speech, President Kim said, he will focus on value management designed to honor customers’ values and realize corporate social values.

Stressing that staffers’ personal growth is the key to organization growth, he said, KEPCO KDN will provide support to offer a stage and opportunities to nurture individuals’ personal capabilities.

Kim said he will be the CEO to prioritize technology-oriented management by securing an energy ICT leadership through the development of future core technologies and implementing “KDN-type Digital New Deal” policies.

He said KEPCO KDN would be a reliable public entity by putting into practice mature labor-management relations in which labor and management mutually honor each other’s values and ethics management on top of the settlement of a corporate culture based on fairness and communications.

Kim also urged his executives and staffers to make KEPCO KDN a global energy ICT leader with sustainable growth and balanced public and corporate interests.

A view of KEPCO KDN headquarters in Naju, Jeollanam-do.

About KEPCO KDN

Securing the best technology and experience, KEPCO KDN provides the best value and opportunity to all customers including customers, shareholders, partners and employees, and creates the corporate value.

KEPCO KDN also pursues the customer success by providing creative services that show the potential for success which the customers have not yet discovered.

KEPCO KDN provides total services including power system monitoring, diagnosis and control, and power business information management applying advanced power ICT technology in the entire power system from power generation, transmission and substation to distribution and sales.

This reduces the power loss, but increases voltage and frequency retention while does not allow the outage even for a moment so that high quality electricity can be used in safe and cheap.

In addition, KEPCO KDN is leading the development of AICBM technology such as AI, IoT, Cloud, Big Data, and Mobile in the time of the 4th industrial revolution.

We are leading the future energy world by developing the new energy technology such as diffusion of AMI, construction of electric car charging station, energy big data service, E-prosumer, microgrid and energy storage device.

KEPCO KDN will continue to grow as an energy ICT specialized public corporation that will greatly contribute to advancing the power business and construction of Smartgrid with creativity and convergence by launching to the overseas market based on the competitiveness of power ICT.