KT, investing 27 trillion won in 5 years. 28,000 direct employment

KT Group, which has been privatized for 20 years, plans to invest 27 trillion won in networks, Digico, and venture startups for the next five years by 2026.

In addition, about 28,000 people will be directly employed with digital talent training.

Through this, it is a strategy to accelerate Digico's growth and lead the national digital transition.

■ National digital conversion lead

KT Group plans to invest 12 trillion won in the Telco field, including the network infrastructure, the basis of the hyper-connection era.

The company plans to increase the reliability of the network by building additional DR centers in the metropolitan area, such as Guro and Hyehwa. The company decided to strengthen its network stability by expanding the detour routes of core services such as high-speed Internet, IPTV, and wireless services.

In addition, the next-generation infrastructure and 6G core technology combined with 5G networks will be preemptively researched and developed.

The company plans to invest 12 trillion won in Digico sectors such as AI, robots, cloud, and media contents that are leading the group's growth.

KT has presented new businesses such as AICC based on AI and big data technology and the largest call center in Korea. The company plans to invest 1.5 trillion won in these new businesses to discover video AI, CCAAS, and super large AI businesses and focus on expanding the robot platform business.

The company plans to invest about KRW 1.7 trillion in cloud and IDC infrastructure and secure global AI infrastructure competitiveness. In the midst of the 'HyperScale AI Computing (HAC)' service, which was launched at the end of last year, the company will invest in AI infrastructure and expand its business to the AI platform and service area. The goal is to contribute to enhancing national competitiveness by building the first GPU farm and the advancement of specialized AI semiconductors.

It will invest about 2.6 trillion won in the media content field. In addition to investing in the production of content and securing IP, the company is also considering investing in the expansion of media values such as planning, production, distribution, and service.

In addition, the group's capabilities such as finance, digital healthcare, and mobility are gathered.

In the promising venture startup, the company plans to invest 3 trillion won over five years to secure Digico capabilities and share the opportunity for future growth.

■ Digital talent training led

KT has been carrying out the Future Reinforcement Project for employees in-house, and has been fostering about 1,000 practical talents in the fields of AI, big data, and cloud through the existing number of restriction programs without age and position restriction.

Since last year, the youth AI talent development program has been operating the Able School. Able School is divided into two courses, ▲ AI developer tracks that train AI service developers and DX consultant tracks that lead the digital industry. AI experts in KT Group have formed a curriculum directly to develop practical capabilities that can be used immediately in the actual workplace, and the incumbent is directly introduced as a project lecturer to provide in-depth coaching.

Last year, about 200 practical digital talents were produced through the first Able School process, 40 of which were hired by KT, and the rest are being recruited by KT Group companies and startups.

For the next five years, KT will focus about 5,000 digital talents nationwide through Able School, contributing to the social difficulties of youth unemployment and IT manpower through direct recruitment of KT Group, promising startups and Jiangsu companies. It is a policy.

At the same time, the AI practical qualification exam is also operated. It was developed by KT's AI talent development know-how, and is a 100% practical evaluation test that develops AI models based on the actual AI case and data of the company. KT aims to develop it into an AI capacity certification system and achieve 50,000 qualifications for five years. In addition, the company plans to expand the AI education program developed by KT by cooperating with educational institutions, such as providing AI-related educational platforms to universities and high schools.

In particular, KT Group is currently contributing to the creation of about 143,000 jobs, and plans to hire about 28 people directly for five years.

It is promoted to recruit talented people regardless of the specifications, such as leading the balanced development of regional talent and establishing a software developer screening.

■ Contribution to a virtuous cycle of social

KT Group plans to strengthen win-win cooperation and create sound job creation through support such as technology development for small and medium venture companies and management infrastructure innovation.

In the meantime, it has established a professional program to strengthen win-win cooperation with partners and has established a support system. The company has been operating Biz Collabo, which has a joint business with startups with innovation technology for six years, and has also established 'KT Bridge Lab', which selects 10 startups every year and supports up to 200 million won.

In addition, the company is actively supporting KT's free transfer, technology transfer support, and global market entry to small and medium-sized partners.

Apart from the investment of 27 trillion won, the company plans to execute about 6 trillion won to supply content. Through this, the goal is to secure high-quality contents that meet the customer's eye level and to lead the development of the domestic media ecosystem.

It also uses Digico-based technology and solutions to solve corporate-led social problems.

It is also strengthening green technology R & D to respond to carbon neutrality and climate change. The AI Building Operator, an AI energy-saving solution, has been introduced to confirm the actual 15% energy saving effect. It is the first domestic ICT industry to issue an ESG debt of 260 billion won, fostering the startup ecosystem for the purpose of eco-friendly projects.

By expanding the digital non-face-to-face education, the education gap will be continuously resolved, and the participation of IT Supporters, a long-term social contribution activity in Korea, launched in 2007, will also increase.

In addition, it plans to support digital conversion in the public sector by utilizing Digico technology such as AI, big data, and cloud, and contribute to the implementation of the digital platform government.

Representative Lee Hyun-mo said, We will be the foundation for strengthening national core industrial competitiveness by actively investing in future future investment such as hyper-connected infrastructure and digital talent, and creating jobs. We will become a leading company.