KosFarm, Korea's smart farm R&D program office, convened its first 2023 expert roundtable on running the national smart farm R&D big-data platform. JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong joined panelists from Naver Cloud, the Rural Development Administration, and the Korea Forestry Promotion Institute.
Park credited the platform with dramatically cutting researchers' information-discovery costs — then pushed the idea further, calling for a working data marketplace where supply, demand, and pricing signals connect producers and buyers of agricultural data.
This summary was written by JINONG. See the original for the full story — most sources are in Korean.