[Digital Times, Kang Eun-seong] The keywords which penetrate telecom companies this year are early commercialization of 5G and expansion of media platforms. SK Group (Telecom, Broadband), KT, and LG U Plus presented business vision and strategy for the year with the start of business on January 2 and also shared direction of improvement of organizational culture to achieve this.

◇ 5G competition, intense competition First, the representatives of each company emphasized the importance of early commercialization of 5G in a voice. As this year marks the first year of 5G build, the competition from the three auctions, from auction to standardization, is anticipated.

SK Telecom President Park Jeong-ho said, "SK Telecom`s 5G core technology and convergence services are promoting the 5G commercialization of major countries in the world." We will continue to develop innovative technologies and services in order to continue our global 5G leadership," He said.

Hwang Chang-kyu, chairman of KT, is now willing to imprint KT`s 5G leadership on the world with a five-month Olympic Games in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. President Hwang said, "If KT demonstrates world-leading ICT capabilities and 5G leadership in PyeongChang, it will become a `decisive moment` to become a `global platform leader` leading the fourth industrial revolution. "He said.

He pointed out that 5G commercialization should be properly prepared based on the success of 5G pilot service in PyeongChang. It is also pointed out that service development as well as network infrastructure is important for 5G commercialization. In addition, they demanded that the five major platforms that had progressed for over a year should be fostered in earnest.

Koo Young-soo, vice chairman of LG Uplus, stressed that the company should be the number one player in the 5G network competition. He added, "LG U Plus should take the lead in the 4G LTE market and lead the market, so 5G competitions should be the first step in the mobile market."

◇ Media platform initiative competition In the era of 5G, telecom companies are paying attention to the media platform business as a platform business that can produce the most visible results. The New Year message also highlighted the strengthening of the media platform business.

Lee Hyung-hee, president of SK Broadband, stated, "We must continuously enhance the content competitiveness of our core platform, B tv, and provide new value for our customers by utilizing new technologies such as artificial intelligence and voice recognition." Lee emphasized the need to maximize the content competitiveness of the real-time online broadcasting platform (OTT) corn and cultivate it as a `national premium OTT`.

Meanwhile, Chairman Hwang Chang-kyu said, "KT announced in February last year that it plans to focus its media platform on smart energy, financial, public, and disaster safety as the group`s five major platforms. We need to create differentiated results."

Kwon Young-soo, vice chairman of LG U Plus, stated, "In December of last year, the world`s first home IoT subscribers exceeded 1 million households and became the number one player with a 71% share of the subscribers." "Media business such as IPTV should also be ranked first" The goal was presented.

◇ Except for the vice chairman, `Kwon Young-soo` = each company has strengthened the management of the skinship, attracts attention. President Hwang met the employees who stood in front of the front gate of KT building in Gwanghwamun on the morning of the 2nd. In addition to the New Year`s Day, we handed out hand cream sets to our employees. President Hwang said, "This year, we must raise our efforts to transform the KT group, including communication, collaboration, empowerment, unified KT, corporate culture of enthusiasm and persistence, "And motivated employees.

Vice President Kwon, on the other hand, suggested on January 2 of the day that, in order to introduce a `horizontal organizational culture`, all `title titles` should be removed and the culture of singing names should be settled. It is an expression called `Kwon Youngsoo` instead of `Vice President` to Vice President Kwon. Kwon emphasized that it was possible to discuss horizontal ideas through the sequence-based naming culture, which was not an easy proposition for the vanguard. An official of LG Upline said, "Although executives and employees with high annual salaries were quite awkward to call their names, some employees boldly said there was a sign of change from their first meeting, calling Vice President Kwon Young-soo.

By Kang Eun Seong esther@


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