Korea Security Briefing 2
Date: Jun 09,2020
From: SECON 2020
The contribution of AI·Data·Cloud enterprises
1. The provision of COVID 19 spreading situations and its response information
The analysis and sharing speed of COVID 19 data provided by the Ministry of Health and Welfare
(MOHW) and Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevent ion (KCDC) is fast in Korea. The ‘Corona
Map’, created by the Korea Spatial Information & Community, provides information such as contact
tracing and screening center. Another useful resource is the public Chatbot service provided by
WISENUT, which informs the public about the travel route of confirmed cases, sc reening centers
and COVID 19 guidelines. In order to check up on the health conditions of those likely to be
infected, AI based Voicebot service provided by NAVER’s ‘Clova’ automatically makes calls twice a
day. The result of the checkup is then sent to th e local public health center via email.
Not only do AI·Data·Cloud enterprises provide information on confirmed cases, but also COVID 19
related media trend and the analysis of keyword search tool . DABLE provides the most favored
COVID 19 related articles and media trend, by analyzing the traffic data of approximately 1,800
Korean press. In order identify the turning point and provide a comparison of similar terms as well
as an official report, DAUMSOFT specifically analyzes the data of portal’s COVID 19 re lated
keywords.
2. Patient diagnosis and patient screening
AI infused COVID
19 diagnostic kits and X ray screening procedures do save up a lot of time.
SEEGENE is one of the enterprises which provide such kits and screening procedures. Not only do
they save up time but were granted approval and also successfully o btained the EU certification.
Its AI Medical Image reading device which classifies severe cases by reading X ray images in three
seconds has been installed in public health centers and hospitals. Another AI device made by JLK
INSPECTION, which reads the pa tient’s lung condition within a few seconds, plans to be installed
in many healthcare facilities.
3.Vaccine discovery and development
As AI manages to collect and infer virus information as well as a vast amount of medical data
through drug repositionin g and its discovery and development, DEARGEN has used deep learning
based drug protein interaction forecasting algorithm to foresee COVID 19 curative effacement,
proposing HIV medications as drug candidates. On the other hand, ARONTIER is expecting a
short ened response time of COVID 19 and other emerging infectious diseases by undergoing
research on AI based new drug development integration platform.
4. COVID 19 response service development and SME support Cloud
Cloud enterprises such as KT, NBP, NHN and Koscom
are currently providing full support to 38
private development teams regarding public mask sales information notification App, web services
development, and free elastic infrastructure which handles network congestion. Many cloud
enterprises are keeping th emselves occupied with pushing ahead diverse support plans to
overcome the pandemic .
Due to the spread of COVID
19, special fare policies (temporary CDN reduction by 30%) are being
applied to rapidly increasing web traffic business categories such as shopping malls and cyber
colleges. In order to support Startup companies, special events i nclude the distribution of USD
1,000 vouchers. NBP reduced the server price of all SMEs up to 50%, providing home working
solutions such as ‘WORKPLACE’ and free API to all public interest developers. NHN will be providing
SMEs with functions such as messen ger, shared calendar and video conference through its Cloud
based collaboration platform ‘TOAST Workplace’ free of charge.