LG Uplus President Hwang Hyun-sik and UNIST President Lee Yong-hoon pose together after signing an MOU to explore smart health care solutions on Aug. 26. (Photo: LG Uplus)

LG Uplus and UNIST struck an MOU to explore smart health care solutions, the Korean telecom service provider said on Aug. 26.

UNIST opened the Smart Health Care R&D Center to study digital medical services, combining medical technologies and advanced IT technologies such as smartphones, wearable devices and AI in March.

UNIST is developing and verifying diverse services in four areas: prevention, mobile diagnosis, rehabilitation and medical big data analysis.

Under the deal, LG Uplus and UNIST’s Smart Health Care R&D Center will carry out the verification of smart health care solutions and mutual tasks; jointly exploring solutions for a publicly-operated occupational disease hospital whose opening is slated for 2025 in Ulsan., and making joint proposals on a health care cluster, coupled with Busan’s national pilot project to build a smart city.

LG Uplus and UNIST will jointly develop smart health care solutions with the Smart Health Center R&D Center taking the initiative and join forces in exploring related business opportunities.

LG Uplus will hold a smart health care “hackathon” targeting UNIST students. The telecom service provider will jointly develop diverse new solutions by studying mental health management solutions with UNIST’s Health Care R&D Center.

To this end, UNIST is seeking to implement joint tasks with foreign prominent universities in the related sectors.

Both sides will develop and verify digital health care solutions that will be applied to rehabilitation and home care sectors in time for the opening of a publicly-operated occupational disease hospital by the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) in Ulsan in 2025.

The solutions they will develop will employ advanced technologies such as AI, VR, robots, genom, and ED bio printing.

LG Uplus and UNIST will jointly create a heath care cluster, which will be implemented in conjunction with Busan’s national pilot project to build the smart city “Eco-Delta City.”

Both sides will verify solutions they are now working on such as senior care, IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) and AI video recognition and radar-based health care monitoring by capitalizing on telecom technologies such as 5G and IoT and their own capabilities.

LG Uplus President Hwang Hyun-sik and UNIST President Lee Yong-hoon participated in the signing ceremony.

UNIST President Lee said, “It will serve as an opportunity to provide future medical services through UNIST’s smart health care technologies and LG Uplus’ telecom technology collaboration.”

LG Uplus President Hwang said, “The smart health sector is a market with a great growth potential, and LG Uplus will aggressively provide its capabilities in order to have synergetic effects in jointly exploring digital health care solutions and business opportunities in accordance with the MOU signed with UNIST.”

LG Uplus, French Embassy Join Forces in Offering VR Travel Content Service

LG Uplus teamed up with the French Embassy in Korea to launch “Hello, France,” a virtual reality travel, performance and art content service, on Aug. 23.

Anyone can use the content regardless telecom service providers via the U+VR app.

 
“Hello, France” is designed to help customers experience French culture when the spread of COVID-19 pandemic has made travelling abroad almost impossible.

In particular, it was considered given the fact that Paris, being selected as the venue of the next Summer Olympic Games, has boosted interest in travelling and visiting France.

Customers are given the chance to experience 20 pieces of VR content via ‘Hello, France.” They can appreciate culture and arts ranging from globally renowned tourist spots like Notre Dam Cathedral, Eiffel Tower and the Seine to Claude Monet’s works and Bach’s concert.

LG Uplus and French Embassy have jointly selected content and made studio collaboration for the past three months to launch the VR service.

In particular, the French Embassy had teamed up with prominent French production companies such as Forum des images, Lucid Realities, Ubisoft Entertainment, TARGO, and New Images Festival to raise the reality of the content. The embassy’s own content is also made available via the service.

LG Uplus plans to maintain a partnership with France, a leader in the media technology sector.

As LG Uplus is collaborating with Atlas V and Orange, France’s biggest telecom service provider, which participated in the production of “Hello, France,” the Korean telecom service provider is seeking to implement additional projects with the French embassy.

LG Uplus serves as the facilitator of the Global XR Content Telco Alliance on which Atlas V and Orange sit.