Kyunghoon Ahn, Korea Peace Economy Forum Vice President, is a founder of Yap Company which provides modulation of in/outdoor location determination technology, as well as takes a role of an affiliated professor of Sogang Business School and the Vice President of the Korea IT Convergence Technology Association(KICTA), concurrently. His history had started with working for System Headquarters of Hyundai Motors in 1988, and worked for AC Nielsen and Nice Information & Telecommunication as well, achieving great outcomes and became distinguished himself on the industry with data-based marketing.
Based on these successful experiences, he made a strategic partnership with SK and released the world’s first E-wallet ‘Smart wallet’ to the market.
In addition, he sucessfully commercialized the Yap Company’s ‘the Hybrid Beacon’ which is stand-alone device using for location determination technology, for the first time in Korea. Currently, the company has been expanding its business areas to IoT and leading the industry by releasing a series of services such as 'Yap Order', 'Yap Work', and 'Yap Docent'. Thanks to his efforts to create social and cultural value by connecting humanity and the space, he had won the award ‘Management Information Grand Prize’ from Korea Management Information Society in 2021 as well as had won the top prize in IoT sector of the Weekly People’s ‘Top Awards for Korean People’ for 2 consecutive years.