City Sharing Platform and NHN have joined hands to support digital technology for small business stores facing difficulties due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. City Sharing Platform is a company leading the unmanned business of domestic small business stores.
On the morning of the 26th, the two companies held a strategic partnership agreement ceremony related to the ‘Small Business Experience Smart Market Service’ that the government is promoting for neighborhood supermarkets at ‘AISS Go (Ice Go) 24’, a Korean-style unmanned convenience store on the city sharing platform in Godeung-dong, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. had
The ‘Small Business Experience Smart Market’ is a project by the Small Business Market Promotion Agency under the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to transform 4,000 neighborhood supermarkets across the country into smart supermarkets over the next five years starting this year. This business will contribute to reducing manpower and increasing sales by applying smart technology that enables 24-hour unmanned sales to small supermarkets that are mainly run by families.
The two companies plan to provide optimized services to small business owners by building an unmanned store solution platform for small business owners.
NHN is especially active in the small business experience market. ▲ Store entry authentication through facial recognition ▲ Linking NHN facial recognition technology to adult authentication for AI liquor vending machines ▲ Fortune information service through facial recognition ▲ Linking Payco mobile simple payment ▲ Establishing smart unmanned stores for small business owners Models, etc. are incorporated step by step.
The two companies also decided to begin their cooperation business in earnest, starting with the second Korean-style unmanned convenience store ‘AISS Go 24’, which will open in the U-Space shopping center in Pangyo Techno Valley, Seongnam.
Park Jin-seok, CEO of City Sharing Platform, expressed great expectations, saying, “Through our business cooperation with NHN, we will be able to speed up the business by applying NHN’s various digital technologies and contents to the alley store digitalization project being promoted by the government.”
Park Geun-han, head of NHN’s AI business division, said, “With this agreement as an opportunity, we will do our best to contribute to society by applying all of NHN’s technology and content to self-employed stores and coexist with small business owners.”
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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