Shooting for Goal! FIRA RoboWorld Cup 2006 ... - Korea IT Times

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Publisher’s Message
* World Cup Germany 2006: Golden Opportunity
for Korean IT Entrepreneurs
* WiBro Launch to Speed up Ubiquitous Society
World Cup Germany 2006 presents a superb chance for Korean IT
enterprises to take advantage of the many business opportunities related to this
globally watched and participated spectacle in Germany this month.
On the industrial front, we turn the spotlight on FIRA Robo World Cup
Germany 2006, which showcases the robot soccer power of Korea globally. In
conjunction with this, our June issue delves into Korea’s robot industry,
including an interview with the FIRA president, associated business circles’
articles like Yujin Robot, IZIrobotics and Robot World 2006 introduction with
a catchphrase, ‘Toward one household one robot age!’ which will be held on
Kim Tae-sub
Oct. 16~22, 2006 in COEX, Seoul. The Robo World Cup, being held on the
Chairman and Publisher
initiative of Korea, is intended to foster a social culture environment to realize
the “One household-One Robot era” sooner rather than later on the sidelines of
World Cup Germany 2006.
To narrow the technology gap with robot-advanced countries and to catch up with them, we believe
that strong government backing is needed for urgent manpower nurturing and technology power
improvement plus focusing on next-generation robot development such as 3G robot Ubiquitous robot,
4G robot ‘Genetic robot’, and 5G ‘Bio robot’ -that other countries have not yet even attempted.
Alongside of this, related robot business circles should stick to the fountainhead technology and basic
technology to overcome technology power shortage, an Achilles’ heel of the Korean robot industry.
Also, we are setting great expectations on the spread of Korean-made DMB or WiBro too with World
Cup Germany 2006 as an impetus as were pinpointed in our magazine’s previous issues several times.
In this context, Wireless Broadband World Forum 2006, held under the flagship theme of ‘Toward
Successful WiBro (Mobile WiMAX) and 4G’ in Seoul at the end of May, 2006, was a good opportunity
to be able to confirm that WiBro is not only raising demand for a Ubiquitous service environment that is
possible anytime, anywhere and with any device, but also it can meet the supply & demand for all such
as communication business provider’s investment environment development to strengthen profitability
security and competitiveness through WiBro. At the moment, our expectations are rising higher than
ever in that WiBro service’s activation is anticipated to make the $30,000 national income era and
Ubiquitous society a reality earlier than expected. It will serve as a new growth engine of the future by
increasing national conveniences and by creating employment with new investment and associated
industry’s activation for the slowing domestic IT industry.
For our June issue, the Korea IT Times team of writers also prepared some very interesting articles -
such as U-City Busan, an innovative telecommunication solution (LS-HFC Network) providing highspeed
data and video (HD level) service developed by LS Cable, Inha University Zooming in on new
Songdo City for its Second Campus with the view of building ‘Global Knowledge Enterprise University
Park’, and The Korean Government e-Procurement System (GePS) of the Public Procurement Service
(PPS), called the Narajangteo in Korean won the Global IT Excellence Award.
We hope our readers enjoy some excellent summertime reading in this issue!
Kim Tae-sub
6 _ June 2006 KOREA IT TIMES