CERAGEM Plans to Strengthen AI-based Wellness Home Concept’s Products

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Winning 12 Innovation Awards
[INQ. NO. 2601E05] CERAGEM has won a total of 12 Innovation Awards at the 2026 CES. Starting with winning three Innovation Awards in 2024, the company’s first CES entry, the company has doubled its number of awards each year, with six in 2025 and twelve in 2026.
CERAGEM’s winning of Innovation Awards span six categories — AI, smart home, digital health, beauty tech, food tech, and home appliances.

The most distinctive of these award-winning products is the Home Therapy Booth 2.0 AI. Unlike its flagship products, which typically consisted of massage chairs or heated beds, this new product features an enclosed booth design. Upon entering the booth, radar and thermal sensors detect bio-signals such as heart rate, respiration, body temperature, and sleep quality, automatically adjusting the temperature, lighting, sound, scent, and oxygen concentration. This device provides personalized therapy that utilizes multiple senses depending on the user.
It detects the user’s physical condition in real time, helping to relieve stress, restore focus, and promote emotional stability. This product won awards in both the smart home and AI categories.
CERAGEM is currently considering collaborating with companies like HDC to install the booth in apartment complexes this year.
Discussions are underway with hospitals and medical institutions for pilot applications of the Medicare Bed, a bed-style healthcare platform. This device, which incorporates a spinal medical massage module into the mattress, massages the entire spine. Additional options include limb compression and circulation devices.
Devices designed to enhance shower- and sleep-quality are also slated for release. The Balance AI Shower System, which analyzes skin oil and moisture, elasticity, and pigmentation using near-infrared and spectrum sensors, adjusts water temperature and acidity. The Youth Bed with AI Health Concierge monitors brain waves and heart rate to control lighting, temperature, and aroma.

The Brain Booth with AI Coach, designed in the form of a single-person study desk, can be used for study, concentration, and relaxation. It collects brainwaves and biosignals in real time, analyzes posture and fatigue, and automatically adjusts lighting, oxygen, and brainwave-inducing sound.
The MediSpa Pro AI, which measures skin condition through 3D facial scanning and offers seven spa modes, was awarded an Innovation Award in the beauty category at CES 2026, and is already available for purchase.
“The fact that the number of winnings of Innovation Awards has doubled for three consecutive years is proof that the value we place on healthy life has resonated in the global market. We will continue to focus our R&D capabilities on further advancing the level of AI technology so that the home itself can become a center for recovery and rest,” the company’s CEO explained.

 
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Mapsea Demonstrates Korea’s Excellence in Maritime Technology

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Winning Innovation Award in enterprise tech category
[INQ. NO. 2601E04] Mapsea Corporation, a maritime big data solutions company, has won an Innovation Award for the second consecutive year at CES 2026, the world’s largest technology exhibition. This year, it won the honor in the enterprise tech category, once again demonstrating Korea’s global status in maritime technology.
Mapsea’s core technology, which won the award, is its AI-based digital twin navigation platform. It refines and integrates over 150 billion pieces of big data collected from 2.6 million vessels worldwide by applying Real Time Kinematics (RTK) and High Frequency Data (HFD) technologies. It analyzes information such as vessel location, route, weather, tidal current, engines, and fuel usage in real time, supporting reliable decision-making even in polar shipping routes. Its specialized simulation capabilities for the Arctic Route are particularly noteworthy.

It precisely covers areas missed by existing navigation systems, such as automatically deriving optimal routes by reflecting data on iced seas and weather changes, and predicting risky areas in advance. This approach has earned high praise for simultaneously achieving operational safety, efficiency, and carbon reduction.
Mapsea’s AI-based navigation system goes beyond simple monitoring to integrate collision avoidance, multi-event detection, and automatic alerting systems.
It reduces human error, which accounts for 75% of maritime accidents, and can reduce fuel consumption by up to 15% through optimal route analysis. Furthermore, it has established a data-driven carbon monitoring system to address international carbon regulations, such as the European Emissions Trading System (ETS), attracting attention as a sustainable management tool for global shipping companies. Actual feedback from shipping companies has shown that monitoring efficiency has improved by more than 24 times compared to previous systems.

Mapsea has already received AIP technology certification from the Korean Register (KR) and has established Korea’s first official partnership with the global shipping rating agency RightShip. Furthermore, Mapsea solidified its position on the international maritime technology stage by winning an award at the PIER71 Smart Port Challenge 2024, in the category of AI, hosted by Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) and NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurship arm of the National University of Singapore.
At KORMARINE 2025, an international shipbuilding & marine industry exhibition, held in Busan last October, Mapsea’s booth for the digital twin demonstration for the Arctic Route attracted thousands of visitors, creating a buzz with its live technology demonstration. With this winning of the award, Mapsea has established itself as an innovative company in the maritime data industry.
“Winning the CES Innovation Award for two consecutive years is testament to the global recognition of our digital twin technology, which has expanded to the Arctic Route. We will advance further as a first mover, leading the digital transformation of the global maritime industry through the convergence of AI and data,” remarked the company’s CEO.
Mapsea is currently an official partner of ZEBOX, the global accelerator of France’s CMA CGM Group, and plans to expand collaboration with the global maritime technology ecosystems in 2026.
It is rare for a Korean maritime technology company to win an Innovation Award at CES for two consecutive years. This is particularly significant as it marks the first time that digital maritime twin technology, centered on AI and big data, has been recognized as commercial technology on the international stage.
Experts believe that this award goes beyond mere technological achievement and demonstrates Korea’s potential to emerge as a leader in maritime digital transformation.
Mapsea plans to participate in digital transformation projects not only on the Arctic Route, but also on major maritime routes between Asia and Europe, and is pursuing the expansion of data infrastructure across the maritime, logistics, and energy industries.


 
 
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NEWJAK Releases Headset-free XR Board Game

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Winning three Innovation Awards
[INQ. NO. 2601E03] NEWJAK, a company specializing in realistic XR content, has won three Innovation Awards at CES 2026, the world’s largest IT and consumer electronics show, held in Las Vegas, USA, from January 6 to 9 this year.
NEWJAK’s flagship XR board game, SPORTRACK (a headset-free XR board game), as well as several other new technologies, simultaneously won awards, once again demonstrating its global competitiveness in the category of K-content XR sector.
NEWJAK previously won two Innovation Awards at CES 2025 for its XR platform, X-Runner. At CES 2026, NEWJAK surpassed that achievement by winning multiple awards for two consecutive years. Notably, the company achieved not only technological excellence but also content and entertainment value by delivering a headset-free XR experience.
This product is a realistic board game that introduces a new concept called ‘headset-free XR,’ transcending the limitations of existing Metaverses and VR, which rely on head-mounted displays (HMDs).

SPORTRACK is played on a modular board comprised of 16 themed ‘Sports Islands.’ Players roll dice to move the islands, engaging in full-body XR experiences like stretching, fitness, and cooperative missions. Going beyond a simple game, its reward-based design motivates participants and maximizes immersion.
Notably, this system combines spatial sensors, vision analysis, and a real-time interactive interface to create an intelligent XR environment where the background, difficulty, and progression speed automatically adjust — based on the user’s movements and reactions. This allows users to experience immersive XR in real-world spaces without the need for wearable equipment, and also enables cross-regional multiplayer connectivity.
NEWJAK plans to develop SPORTRACK into a realistic content platform for use in schools, fitness centers, and public experience spaces.
“SPORTRACK goes beyond simple gaming and presents a new paradigm for learning, health, and play culture that combines digital immersion and real-world movement. We will create an inclusive XR ecosystem that is easily accessible and enjoyable for everyone,” remarked a spokesperson for the company.
In the second half of this year, NEWJAK plans to sequentially open XR experiential pop-up stores in major European and Asian cities, including Berlin and Tokyo — with an aim to launch customized B2B solutions for corporate clients. Through these initiatives, the company aims to move beyond short-term exhibition-focused promotions and make a full-fledged transition to an experiential content business.


 
 
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GoLe Robotics

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GoLe Robotics Presents Solutions to the Construction Industry in the AI Era

Winning three Innovation Awards
[INQ. NO. 2601E02] GoLe Robotics, a construction and residential environment automation solutions company, won three Innovation Awards at CES 2026, the world’s largest consumer electronics and IT exhibition. With these awards, GoLe Robotics’ AI and robotics technology has been officially recognized in the global market.
GoLe Robotics was honored with three CES Innovation Awards: the ND-3 in the artificial intelligence (AI) category; the AA-2 in the robotics category; and the EVW-1 in the smart communities category.
The ND-3, the winner in the AI category, is an AI-powered construction-site material transport and progress monitoring robot. The ND-3’s unique quadruped design allows it to lift directly within its frame and transport heavy materials.
Equipped with advanced physical AI, vision, and navigation AI, it recognizes complex terrain, avoids obstacles, and uploads real-time on-site data to monitor project progress.
The AA-2, the winner in the robotics category, is a last-mile autonomous delivery robot for premium residential complexes. It addresses the fatigue, safety risks, and elevator congestion associated with late-night deliveries in luxury apartments and complexes where security and convenience are paramount.
Using a pneumatic tube frame, it is extremely lightweight and energy-efficient. Flexible materials absorb shock, thus ensuring safe operation even at night. It can complete contactless deliveries to up to three homes in a single run, and after use, it deflates itself to minimize its volume for storage.
The EVW-1, the winner in the smart community category, is a universal elevator interface for robots. Its innovative technology allows existing elevators to be integrated with robots without modification.
Simply attaching the EVW-1 to a panel allows robots to freely use elevators, eliminating the need to convert tens of millions of existing elevators into smart elevators.
Compatible with all elevator systems, regardless of brand or model, the EVW-1 is a key technology that eliminates vertical mobility barriers for robots in applications ranging from construction sites to smart buildings and last-mile delivery.
A spokesperson for the company commented on the winning of the CES Innovation Awards, “Our receiving of three awards demonstrates recognition of our outstanding technology and creative mechanisms in global markets. Building on this achievement, we will further accelerate our advancement into construction automation. We will enter the U.S. construction market, where Korean companies are currently working, with an aim to address the severe labor shortages in the nation with our AI-based automation solutions.”


 
 
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Korean Companies Lead Innovative Trends

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Korean Companies Lead Innovative Trends in Consumer Electronics & IT

Winning the Largest Number of Innovation Awards at CES 2026
At CES 2026, the world’s largest consumer electronics and IT exhibition, Korean companies won 218 (59%) Innovation Awards, setting a record for the most awards won by any country.
Korea ranks in the No.1 position in the winning of the CES 2026 awards, followed by the United States and China, which came in second and third, with 52 (14.0%) and 39 (10.9%), respectively.
At CES 2025, Korean companies also won 208 Innovation Awards, nearly half of the total, setting a record for the most awards among participating countries.
Notably, Korea swept 15 of the 30 Best of Innovation Awards, including three in AI, a key trend among the 36 categories at CES 2026.

CT5’s wearable AI interface, Zone HSS1, supporting large-scale multimodal models, and DeepFusion AI’s software-defined 360-degree perception solution, RAPA, won the Best of Innovation Award, respectively, in the category of AI.
The AI-based autonomous mobile robot system, Scan&Go, jointly developed by Doosan Robotics and Maple Advanced Robotics, also won the Best of Innovation Award in the category of AI.
Samsung Electronics’ U.S. subsidiary’s quantum security chip, S3SSE2A, won the Best of Innovation Award in the category of cybersecurity; while Samsung SDI’s ultra-high-power 18650 cylindrical battery; and SDI 25U-Power, won the Best of Innovation Award in the category of construction and industrial technology.
LG Electronics’ transparent and wireless TV, LG Signature OLED T, won the Best of Innovation Award in the category of imaging.
For this year’s CES, a total of 4,500 companies, similar to last year’s number, competed for next-generation technologies centered on AI.

Korea’s promising small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) also set up large-scale exhibition halls to showcase their latest technologies and innovative visions.
Studio Lab, an AI-based content creation company, won the Best of Innovation Award in the XR & spatial computing category.
CERAGEM has won a total of 12 Innovation Awards at the 2026 CES. Starting with three Innovation Awards in 2024, the company’s first CES entry, the company has doubled its number of awards each year, with six in 2025 and twelve in 2026. CERAGEM’s winning Innovation Awards span six categories — AI, smart home, digital health, beauty tech, food tech, and home appliances.

 
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Chipset

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Dedicated for Video Intelligence

[INQ. NO. 2601E01] DEEPX Co., Ltd., an on-device artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company, recently launched its dedicated video intelligence chipset, DX-H1 V-NPU, which processes hundreds of channels of video AI analysis with as little as 30 watts (W).
This product integrates video input, compression, and AI inference processes, which previously separated across graphics processing unit (GPU) servers and separate codec equipment, into a single card — thereby reducing the power consumption, cost, and complexity of large-scale video AI processing.

By processing hundreds of channels at 30 watts (W), it reduces costs by approximately 80% and power consumption by approximately 85% compared to GPUs. It is considered an alternative to addressing the issues of data-center power shortages and the uncertainties of GPU supply and demand.
DEEPX emphasized that the DX-H1 V-NPU marks a turning point in shifting the basic unit of video AI infrastructure from GPUs to V-NPUs (Vision Neural Processing Units).
It is designed to integrate multi-channel decoding, encoding, and transcoding with a dedicated NPU on a single chip ― to seamlessly process real-time streams. It aims to be a platform that transforms large-scale video AI infrastructure ― such as smart cities, transportation, and industrial control ― into a V-NPU-centric structure.
This product maintains real-time inference performance around the clock, while reducing hardware costs by approximately 80% and power costs by approximately 85% compared to GPUs based on the same number of channels.
While GPUs boast general-purpose computing capabilities, they are not optimized for multi-channel video input/output and real-time streaming.

A spokesperson for the company explained, “Large-scale video AI will no longer rely on the spare computing power of general-purpose GPUs, but will instead operate on dedicated chipsets,” predicting “It will become an integral part of industries such as smart cities, traffic control centers, and national infrastructure.”

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LG’s Home Appliances

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LG’s Home Appliances Solidifies its No. 1 Position in the U.S. Market

Capturing 22.9% market share

LG Electronics ranked No. 1 in market share in the U.S. home appliances market last year. Recognized for its superior product performance and durability for two consecutive years, LG Electronics overtook Samsung Electronics, which claimed the crown until 2023. It plans to continue to put its utmost efforts into defending its title as the ‘No. 1 home appliance company’ in the new year, based on its cutting-edge technology.

According to the U.S. market research firm Traqline, LG Electronics secured a 22.9% market share in the U.S. market in the third quarter of last year based on the sales of six major appliances, ranking it as the No. 1 home appliance company. These six major appliances include refrigerators, washers, dryers, freestanding ranges, dishwashers, and microwave ovens.

Based on sales in 2024, LG Electronics recorded a 21.1% market share, surpassing Samsung Electronics (20.9%), taking the top spot in the U.S. home appliance market in 2023. LG Electronics maintained its No. 1 ranking in the U.S. home appliance market, recording a 21.2% market share in the first quarter of last year, 21.5% in the second quarter, and 22.9% in the third quarter. During the same period, Samsung Electronics ranked second, followed by GE and Whirlpool in third and fourth place, respectively.

 
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Hanjin

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Hanjin Opens a Logistics Hub in Amsterdam

Result achieved in just four years after reaching KRW 1 trillion
Annual sales expected to grow 43% this year
Production capacity to double within two years

Hanjin has established a logistics hub in the Netherlands to support the efforts of Korean brands, including K-beauty brands, to enter the European market.

Hanjin announced that it has recently opened its European fulfillment center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A fulfillment center is a centralized hub that handles the entire logistics process following online orders, from storage and packaging to delivery and returns. The center is conveniently located for air and marine transport connections, just 10 minutes by car from Schiphol Airport and an hour from the Port of Rotterdam.

Through this hub, Hanjin plans to provide integrated logistics services to K-brands preparing to enter the European market. Hanjin not only offers them packaging and labeling services tailored to the warehousing standards of global platforms like TikTok and Amazon, but also connects everything from B2C logistics, including own shopping mall’s order management, to last-mile delivery across Europe.
Hanjin will also handle complex issues related to customs clearance and value-added tax, which are major obstacles to entering the European market.


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K-Chemicals

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K-Chemicals Compete on High Value-Added Systems

The Korean government has presented a roadmap to elevate the petrochemical industry to a global top-four position through high value-added. Currently, Korea ranks fifth in the high value-added chemicals industry, following China, the USA, Japan, and Germany. The government aims to surpass Germany and rise to fourth position.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced the 2030 K-Chemical Next-Generation Technology Innovation Roadmap, which aims to achieve high value-added, eco-friendly, and strengthened compliance with global environmental regulations. This Roadmap outlines the following key objectives:
First, the government plans to increase the high value-added ratio of core materials in seven key industrial sectors. The plan is to increase the proportion from 30% this year to 40% by 2030 and 45% by 2035. As a priority, it will advance synthesis and processing technologies. To comply with global chemical regulations, it will also expedite the development of alternatives. The number of alternatives, currently developed at 12 this year, is expected to increase to 100 by 2030 and 150 by 2035.
Secondly, it will invest in eco-friendly transitions to reduce carbon emissions. The petrochemicals industry is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 270,000 tons this year through eco-friendly transitions. It plans to increase reduction of carbon emissions to 1,030,000 tons by 2030. To achieve this, investments will be made in technologies to convert biomass-based raw materials and recycle or reuse waste plastics.
The way in which it plans to achieve this goal is through the ‘chemical industry innovation alliance,’ formed by ‘anchor companies (leading companies)’ and major chemical companies. The alliance will be organized into nine sectors, namely: semiconductors; displays; future vehicles; secondary batteries; aerospace and defense; electronics and communications; advanced platform polymers; eco-friendliness, and regulatory response.

  
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Samsung Electronics

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Samsung Electronics Expands its Automotive Electronics Business

Acquires ZF in Germany, a key autonomous driving company through its subsidiary Harman

Samsung Electronics has acquired ZF’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) business for 1.5 billion euros through its subsidiary, Harman.
ZF, founded in Germany in 1915, is a global total electronics company boasting over 100 years of history and technological prowess. It has wide business areas from ADAS, to transmissions, chassis, and even electric vehicle operating components. ZF’s ADAS business, which Harman is acquiring, is ranked No. 1 for its ADAS smart cameras. It already supplies products to numerous automakers through collaborations with various semiconductor companies, including Mobileye. This is expected to contribute to Harman’s future expansion of its sales network.

Automotive semiconductors (processors) are currently transitioning from a distributed structure to a domain-centric structure and even a centralized control structure.
According to industry sources, the ADAS and centralized controller market is projected to grow rapidly from US$ 42.2 billion in 2025 to US$ 65.7 billion in 2030 and more than US$ 127.6 billion in 2035.

Harman already has a strong portfolio of automotive electronics focused on the in-cabin experience (ICX), including in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), digital cockpits, car audio, and telematics. Harman is expanding into future growth areas by introducing new products focused on enhancing ICX.

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