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Coex, Korea’s leading Convention and Exhibition Center, Prepares to Celebrate its 40th Anniversary in 2026
 
 Forty Years as a Growing Partner for Korean Industries
In 2026, Coex, Korea’s premier Convention and Exhibition Center (CEO and President Sang Hyeon Jo) will mark its 40th anniversary. Over the past four decades since its establishment in 1986, Coex has hosted approximately 6,500 conventions and exhibitions. It has played a pivotal role in expanding exports for Korean industries and stimulating international exchanges through the exhibition industry, thereby contributing to South Korea’s economic growth.
Coex started as a venue for general trade shows such as the SEOUL TRADE FAIR, but Coex has since expanded its industrial ecosystem by hosting national-level strategic industry exhibitions such as the Korea Electronics Show (KES), SEMICON Korea, Korea Factory Automation Show (KOFA) (now Smart Factory + Automation World, AW), Korea International Food Technology Exhibition (now Food Week Korea), and SIPREMIUM (now Sourcing in Market) — contributing to the earning of foreign currency, and establishing an industrial network by hosting international conferences.
Another milestone for Coex is incorporating the daily lives of citizens into the MICE platform by launching cultural exhibitions like the Seoul International Art Festival (now KIAF SEOUL, since 1996), the Seoul Book Fair (now Seoul International Book Fair (SIBF) since 1994), and the Seoul Living Design Fair (since 1995).

Hosting Exhibitions that Drive Industrial Growth in Smart Tech, Energy, and the Food & Culture Sectors
Coex, Korea’s premier exhibition and convention center, plans and operates more than 20 domestic exhibitions and over 10 overseas exhibitions annually as of 2026, establishing itself as the largest exhibition organizer in the country. Coex is creating a MICE platform that integrates technology and culture, focusing on four key industrial trends: smart tech, energy, mobility, and food & culture.
Smart Factory & Automation World (AW) and the World IT Show (WIS), hosted at Coex, showcase core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including AI, big data, and robotics.
Coex drives industrial development as a central hub for digital transformation, providing a venue for sharing the latest trends in smart manufacturing and industrial automation.
Energy shows, such as InterBattery, Korea Smart Grid Expo, and ELEX Korea, cover the entire value chain of energy, including batteries, new and renewable energy, and the power grid. International firms gather to present a new energy ecosystem, focusing on eco-friendly technologies.
EV Trend Korea, Unmanned Systems World Congress, and Autonomous Driving Mobility Expo provide a snapshot of the trends of future mobility, including electric vehicles, drones, and autonomous driving — presenting a vision for sustainable mobility technology through convergence with the energy industry.
Food Week Korea and the Agri & Food Tech Startup Rising Expo (AFPRO) give a quick overview of the convergence of the food industry and technology. Furthermore, the Korea International Art Fair (KIAF SEOUL) and the Seoul Living Design Fair offer exhibition experiences that capture urban aesthetics, leading cultural and design trends.


An Urban Complex Cultural Space where Industry and Culture Blend
With the opening of COEX Mall in 2000, Coex transformed itself from a convention center into a multi-purpose cultural space encompassing culture, art, shopping, and entertainment. Hosting urban civic festivals like the C Festival and the Winter Festival, Coex presented a new paradigm for exhibition culture, incorporating culture into the exhibition space.
Coex has also successfully hosted large-scale government-organized international conferences such as ASEM Seoul 2000, the G20 Seoul Summit, and the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit — building up its global brand of ‘Seoul = Coex’ in the MICE sector.

Aiming for the Global MICE Market
Coex has been leading the expansion of the Korean MICE industry onto the global stage. In 2009, Coex became the first Korean company to host an exhibition in Vietnam. In 2022, it established its overseas subsidiary, “COEX VINA,” and now hosts approximately 10 overseas exhibitions annually, in Vietnam and Indonesia, respectively. Leveraging its expertise in operating overseas exhibitions and managing convention centers, Coex has operated the WTC Binh Duong New City Expo in Vietnam between 2021 and 2024, where it oversaw venue leasing, overall operations, and marketing for three years.
In addition, based on its proven expertise in the stable operation of convention venues, Coex has successfully managed aT Center, Gunsan Saemangeum Convention Center (GSCO), and Changwon Exhibition Convention Center (CECO) in Korea. Building on this experience, Coex was entrusted in 2024 with the operation of Coex Magok Convention Center—the first dedicated exhibition and convention facility in the western part of Seoul—contributing to balanced industrial development through the establishment of a regional MICE cluster.

40th Anniversary in 2026! A New Beginning for another 40 Years with Next Coex
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, Coex is pursuing a project to host commemorative exhibitions and publishing digital archives that record its history and share its vision for the future.
Additionally, in conjunction with the 2027 Yeongdong-daero Underground Space Complex Development Project, Coex plans to carry out a major renovation of the convention center, including the crown-shaped main entrance, exhibition hall, and third-floor conference rooms. By around 2029, Coex is scheduled to be transformed into a global K-MICE destination equipped with eco-friendly infrastructure.
“Coex has walked alongside the growth of Korean industry for the past 40 years,” remarked SANG HYEON JO, CEO and president of Coex “The next 40 years will be a journey of challenge and innovation toward the global market,” adding, “Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Coex will be reborn as ‘Next Coex’ and present a new standard for creative and sustainable ‘Premium MICE Platforms’.”

2026 coex exhibition schedule


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Korean Exhibitions

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Korean Exhibitions: Platforms for Opening
the Future of Industrial Innovation

The exhibition industry is a key business platform that first introduces innovations from each country and connects companies and markets. For over 20 years, the Korean government has provided support for entities to hold exhibitions through the Domestic Exhibition Support Project for Hosting, (“the Project”) and by developing exhibitions as a strategic tool for expanding exports and enhancing national trade competitiveness.
In particular, the Project supports the holding of exhibitions to strengthen industrial growth and connections with global markets, focusing on the following three key pillars:

Fostering Exhibitions by Stage of Growth
The Project categorizes the exhibitions into three growing stages: ‘New,’‘Promising,’ and ‘Global Top,’ and systematically supports the necessary capabilities for each stage.
For the New Exhibitions, the Project provides comprehensive support for attracting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and for promotional costs to secure a stable growth foundation in the domestic market.
For the Promising Exhibitions, laying the foundation for entering the global market is important, so the Project actively supports the attraction of overseas buyers, international promotion, and hosting side events to help Korean companies to advance onto the international stage.
As international exhibitions, the Global Top exhibitions are a stage that requires the advancement of their platforms. Support is provided primarily through expanding the global networks, such as attracting overseas guests and foreign journalists.
As such, Korean exhibitions, grown through such step-by-step support, are strengthening their role as a global industry platform through innovative exhibitions that lead industry trends.

Promoting Exhibitions Centered on Strategic Industries
The Korean government has designated key industries — such as semiconductors, secondary batteries, biotechnology, and robotics — as strategic industries that are crucial for the national economy, and is thus encouraging exhibitions in these fields to strengthen the nation’s industrial competitiveness.
The Project comprehensively supports the development of core capabilities of strategic exhibitions that showcase new technologies and connect global partnerships across industries, leading the expansion of the industrial ecosystem.
It is expected that these strategic industry exhibitions will grow into specialized platforms for policy announcements and technology sharing, and advance to become Global Top stages for industrial innovation at prestigious international events such as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Hannover MESSE, and the Mobile World Congress (MWC).

Strengthening the Foundation for Fostering Regional Exhibitions
Since 2013, the government’s efforts to foster regional exhibitions have intensified as regional exhibitions have been included in the targets of the Domestic Exhibition Support Project for Hosting. Recently, support has been focused on exhibitions linked to local industries, underlining the fact that regional exhibitions serve as key venues for showcasing regional characteristics and strengths.
In this way, regional exhibitions promote local industrial growth, support local SMEs in securing business opportunities and markets, and promote relationships for mutual growth. These changes are restoring the balance of the existing exhibition industry structure, which is concentrated in the Seoul metropolitan area, and laying the foundation for strengthening regional industrial competitiveness through growing into global-level exhibitions.
Automechanika Frankfurt, a representative global brand exhibition, has expanded its exhibition franchise model to countries like China, Turkiye, Malaysia, and the UAE — establishing itself as an international business platform that aims to connect the global supply chains into a coordinated network. Similarly, some domestically organized exhibitions that have grown under the Korean government’s systematic support are actively seeking overseas market expansion and expanding their global networks.
If more exhibitions join this trend and receive continued support at the national level, domestic exhibitions are expected to grow as global brand exhibitions for each industry, securing leading positions in the global market.


 
 
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Software-Defined Radar Perception Technology

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Deep Fusion AI wins global acclaim with its advanced software-defined radar
perception technology at CES 2026

[INQ. NO. 2601E11] Deep Fusion AI received the Best of Innovation Award at CES 2026 for its originality and technological prowess in the software-defined perception system field with its real-time attention-based pillar architecture (RAPA).
RAPA is a software-defined perception system that utilizes multiple 4D imaging radars to achieve 360-degree real-time environmental awareness. This technology leverages an attention-based deep-learning model and a proprietary dataset specialized for radar signals to achieve high-precision object-detection and tracking.
Notably, RAPA delivers detection accuracy over 40% higher than competing solutions based on public benchmarks, and its efficiency on edge-embedded platforms is a key strength.
Based on its RAPA technology, Deep Fusion AI is expanding its business beyond automotive to various other industries such as defense, marine, and robotics. According to the company, a global mobility company is going to mass-produce autonomous robot taxi vehicles with RAPA technology in October 2026.
In Korea, Deep Fusion AI has integrated RAPA technology into its unmanned surface vehicle (USV) deployment project in collaboration with a defense industry partner. Furthermore, the company is developing unmanned combat ships and ground unmanned systems utilizing RAPA-based perception technology.

A company spokesperson explained, “Our winning the Best of Innovation Award at CES 2026 demonstrates that the software-defined radar technology developed by our team can significantly improve safety and reliability in the autonomous-driving and robotics industries. We are very proud to be recognized for our technology on the global stage, and we will continue to expand the scope of our technology by collaborating with partners across various industries.”
Deep Fusion AI is a deep-tech startup that has developed a 4D imaging radar perception system based on software-defined sensor fusion technology. It has implemented human-level of high-precision, real-time perception in various fields such as autonomous driving, defense, maritime affairs, and robotics, and has thus shown that it can deliver proven stable perception performance even in harsh environments. 
 
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AI-based Robotics Solution

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[INQ. NO. 2601E10] Doosan Robotics recently announced that its AI-based robotics solution, Scan & Go, won the Best of Innovation Award in the AI category and the Innovation Award in the robotic category, respectively, at CES 2026, the world’s largest IT and consumer electronics show.
Early last year, Doosan Robotics announced its transformation into an intelligent robotics solutions company, and has focused on developing innovative products with the goal of securing future growth engines and strengthening its global technological competitiveness. As a result, Doosan’s first intelligent robotics solution won the Best of Innovation Award.
Scan & Go is a platform that combines a robotic arm and an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and applies physics-based AI and advanced 3D vision – in order to perform various tasks on its own.
This innovative product scans the surfaces of large, complex structures such as turbine blades, aircraft fuselages, and a building’s external façade, generates an optimal work path, and then performs tasks such as inspection, sanding, and grinding.

Not only does this solution, operated in a plug-and-play manner, save work time by eliminating the need to create separate design drawings for complex tasks, but also delivers work precision of 0.1 mm. Furthermore, torque sensors mounted on the six axes of the robot arm enable real-time force adjustments regardless of the work surface, and the solution also boasts the industry’s highest level of safety (PLe, Cat4).
“To realize our vision that we proposed early last year, we are committed to developing AI robot solutions that can be deployed immediately in the field, and this Scan & Go is the signal for that. This year, we will unveil a variety of AI robot solutions that address real-world challenges in industrial settings,” explained the company’s CEO.
Doosan Robotics is a company achieving the fastest growth in the global robotics market since its first product release in 2018. With outstanding technology and various robot solutions at its foundation, Doosan Robotics reached the No. 1 spot in the Korean market, No. 4 in the global market, and No. 1 in the high payload (20 kg+) collaborative robot market.
With the industry’s biggest product lineup, Doosan Robotics is able to satisfy demands from various environments and provide robot solutions optimized for customer needs.


 
 
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Privacy-protecting AI Solution

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Winning the Innovation Awards in the categories of Smart Communities and Products in Support of Human Security for All
[INQ. NO. 2601E09] UNIUNI Corp. recently announced that it has won an Innovation Award for the second consecutive year at CES 2026, the world’s largest IT and home appliance exhibition.
UNIUNI’s flagship product, Savvy, a privacy-protecting AI solution, won the Innovation Awards in the categories of both the smart communities, and products in support of human security for all. These achievements follow last year’s winning of the Innovation Award in the smart city, continuing its record of winning the CES Innovation Award for two consecutive years.
Savvy is a non-vision AI solution that analyzes human distance and movement data without using cameras. This allows it to detect abnormal behavior, such as falls, assaults, illegal filming, and drug use, in real time in sensitive spaces such as restrooms, hospital rooms, nursing homes, and fitting rooms.
It is characterized by having no risk of privacy violations, as it does not collect or analyze video information. In many public restrooms across Korea, cases in which Savvy saved the lives of users are increasing through its functions of fall-detection and crime-prevention.
Experts describe the technology of Savvy as physical AI. This is an intelligent safety system that allows spaces to autonomously detect and respond to situations. It is evaluated that it has implemented invisible protection, rather than invisible surveillance, by moving away from a camera-centered surveillance system.

“Our AI recognizes and responds to risks even when out of sight of humans. This technology will elevate the safety of smart cities and public infrastructure to the next level,” remarked the company’s CEO.
UNIUNI recently established a local subsidiary in Silicon Valley, United States, accelerating its expansion into the North American market. Furthermore, it signed an MOU with the Selangor state government in Malaysia to expand its intelligent care safety net, and is currently pursuing demonstration projects in nursing homes, hospitals, and restrooms.
The CEO added, “Our technology is not simply a tool for preventing crime; it is AI that protects human dignity and safety. We will make Non-Vision AI, which originated in Korea, a new safety standard for cities around the world.”


 
 
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AI-based Content Creation Solution

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Winning the Best Innovation Award
[INQ. NO. 2601E08] Studio Lab, an AI-based content creation company, recently announced that it has won the Best of Innovation Award in the XR & spatial computing category at CES 2026, the world’s largest IT and consumer electronics show.
Studio Lab’s product that won the Best of Innovation Award at CES 2026 is GENCY PB, a solution that combines an intelligent photography system based on AI robotics and content-creation technology. With this solution, users can experience the AI-based photography robot and enjoy an immersive, interactive experience where they can immediately view the results.
Earlier last year, Studio Lab, in collaboration with SK Telecom, opened GENCY Studio in Seongsu-dong, Seoul, bringing physical AI-based photography technology to life. Furthermore, through collaborations with global brands such as Intel, BMW, and Galderma, Studio Lab is expanding into a new offline experience platform that integrates technology, space, and content.

GENCY is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based product information page creation platform. When a product image is uploaded, vision AI and generative AI automatically analyze the image and create a product information page. After identifying the product design and features, the platform automatically configures product descriptions and promotional text. Product information page creation, which previously took hours, is now completed in about 30 seconds. Customized pages can also be created by entering keywords.
Gency PB is an automated photo-shooting solution. AI analyzes the subject, model pose, composition, and background to capture photos for the detailed page. It also has the ability to control ISO, aperture, and shutter speed based on the studio’s atmosphere. Studio Lab has further enhanced Gency PB to provide on-site customization. Even in confined photoshoot locations, the robot recognizes the subject, adjusts zoom settings, and automatically rotates the mannequin to find the optimal angle.
Established in 2021, Studio Lab has grown centered on AI-based deep-tech content creation technology. It has been carrying out supportive projects such as the Open Source Commercialization Support Project and the Global SaaS Promotion Project (GSIP), organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and NIPA, respectively.
In particular, through its AI-based automatic detail page-generation service, GENCY, Studio Lab has revolutionized content creation in the fashion industry, and has driven the digital transformation of not only commerce companies but also small businesses.
Studio Lab has won three consecutive CES Innovation Awards: Best of Innovation Award in the AI section in 2024, the Innovation Award in the robotics section in 2025, and the Best of Innovation Award in the XR &spatial computing section in 2026.


 
 
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AI Robot

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[INQ. NO. 2601E07] Daedong Robotics, an AI robotics company within the Daedong Group, recently announced that its divot repair AI robot for golf courses, DivotFix, jointly developed with HL Group, won a CES 2026 Innovation Award.
DivotFix is an intelligent autonomous robot that detects damaged areas of grass (divots) that occur during play on a golf course using vision AI and LiDAR, and then uses a quantitative spraying system to inject and repair divot sand.
With the development of DivotFix, Daedong Robotics is expanding its robotics portfolio, which primarily focuses on agriculture, into outdoor service robots for leisure, sports, and public infrastructure.

“Our DivotFix’s winning of a CES 2026 Innovation Award is the result of Daedong Group’s technological prowess being recognized once again on the global stage, following our AI-based cultivator’s winning of an Innovation Award in 2025. We will continue to develop intelligent robots specialized for various outdoor tasks such as our DivotFix — with an aim to expand our presence in global markets,” explained the company’s CEO.
After commercialization of the robot, Daedong Robotics expects to create synergies by combining the golf-course sales network of its parent company DaedongMobility with HL D&I Halla’s experience in golf-course maintenance.
Daedong Robotics was established as a subsidiary of the Daedong Group, dedicated to pioneering AI-enhanced robotic solutions. Since its founding in 1947, the Daedong Group has led the way in smart agriculture, gaining global recognition under the KIOTI brand.
DaedongRobotics aims to integrate AI robotics with Daedong’s advanced agricultural technologies, such as autonomous tractors and precision farming, while leveraging Daedong’s extensive global marketing expertise to become a leading AI robotics company on the global stage.
Daedong Robotics strives to improve people’s quality of life, foster a more efficient and sustainable ecosystem, and ultimately lead the way into a future where robotics seamlessly integrates into human society. In this way, it aims to create a smarter, more sustainable future for agriculture through AI and robotics.


 
 
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Innovative Authentication & Payment Solution

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[INQ. NO. 2601E06] Ghost Pass recently announced that it has won the Innovation Award in the fintech category at CES 2026, the world’s largest information technology (IT) and home appliance exhibition, marking its third consecutive winning of a CES Innovation Award.
Ghost Pass, a company selected for the 2024 G-Unicorn Incubation Program supported by Gwangju City, won the Innovation Award in the Smart City category at CES 2024, the Best Innovation Award in the fintech category at CES 2025, and the Innovation Award in the fintech category at CES 2026, thereby establishing itself as Korea’s representative global fintech security company.
Ghost Pass is a biometric authentication-based fintech cybersecurity company. Its on-device biometric technology secures users’ biometric information within their personal devices, without storing it on third-party servers.
The award-winning ‘GhostPass CityFlow (Seamless Identity Authentication and Payment Experience)’ is an innovative authentication and payment solution that connects identity verification and payment into a single, integrated flow, without storing personal data on servers.

This technology processes all authentication on the user’s device, eliminating the need for central server storage, thereby ensuring complete data sovereignty. With this on-device technology, users can complete authentication and payment simultaneously using biometrics alone, without needing to launch an app, present a card, or tap their device. This solution can be expanded to various offline environments, including public transportation, hospitals, financial services, and retail stores.
The user’s connecting information (CI) value-deletion function completely deletes the original biometric data in the event of smartphone loss, preventing misuse and unauthorized access.

Ghost Pass was recognized not only on the global stage of CES but also by Samsung Card as the ‘Best Company (1st Place)’, directly verifying its technological prowess and marketability within the financial sector.
“Our GhostPass CityFlow will present a new financial security paradigm that blurs the lines between authentication and payment, simultaneously protecting personal information and completing the user experience,” remarked the company’s CEO.
Ghost Pass was also recognized as the top cybersecurity company in the Super Gap 1,000+ Cybersecurity Network hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), demonstrating its unrivaled competitiveness in the deep tech ecosystem. Ghost Pass is the only company to have successfully passed all three verifications: CES, Samsung Financial Group, and the government innovation network. 
 
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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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