JINONG in the press — stories from the field of smart farm IoT and local food certification.https://jinong.co.kren-usWed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mafra-smart-agri-excellent-company-meeting-2026https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mafra-smart-agri-excellent-company-meeting-2026On April 29, 2026, Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs held its first roundtable with the country's Smart Agriculture Excellence Companies. Vice Minister Kim Jong-gu presented certificates to the 15 honorees and heard each company's growth plans.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mafra-smart-agri-excellent-company-2026https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mafra-smart-agri-excellent-company-2026In April 2026, MAFRA named Korea's first-ever Smart Agriculture Excellence Companies — 15 firms selected from 61 applicants through document and on-site evaluations, across the crop and livestock sectors.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/smart-agri-data-casebook-jinong-2025https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/smart-agri-data-casebook-jinong-2025JINONG is featured in the smart agriculture data casebook published in December 2025 by MAFRA and EPIS, Korea's agri-food information agency.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mt-smart-agri-open-data-ai-jinong-rag-2025https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mt-smart-agri-open-data-ai-jinong-rag-2025Open data is turning Korean agriculture into an open innovation ecosystem — that's the argument a Kyung Hee University smart farming professor makes in this Money Today op-ed, pointing to the expanding datasets on the Smartfarm Korea platform.Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kspost-smartfarm-bigdata-ai-jinong-2025https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kspost-smartfarm-bigdata-ai-jinong-2025Korea Startup Post profiled the eight companies and institutions showcased at MAFRA's Smart Agriculture Data Performance Review — the teams building real services on Smartfarm Korea's open data.Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mafra-smart-agri-data-performance-2025https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/mafra-smart-agri-data-performance-2025MAFRA's press release recaps the Smart Agriculture Data Performance Review held in Osong on November 19, 2025, where eight organizations presented services built on Smartfarm Korea's open data. The agenda also covered data standardization, new Open APIs, and curated dataset releases.Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/wonyesanup-smartfarm-expansion-farmsall-2025https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/wonyesanup-smartfarm-expansion-farmsall-2025Wonye Sanup Shinmun went into the field to report on Korea's data-driven smart agriculture expansion program, which brought digital transformation to 1,319 farms in 2024 under the Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency.Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/livefnews-ict-standard-training-excellent-case-2024https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/livefnews-ict-standard-training-excellent-case-2024Live Farm News covered the results-sharing event for Korea's smart farm ICT national standards program, held in Daejeon on December 4, 2024. Around 150 people — from MAFRA and the Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency to agri-industry executives — gathered to share best practices.Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-25https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-25The Korea Agriculture Technology Promotion Agency honored seven companies at the December 2024 results-sharing event for its national smart farm ICT standards program.Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-23https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-23Korean smart farming needs to move past first-generation labor-saving automation into true data-driven agriculture — the case this in-depth feature makes, drawing on national survey figures and examining gaps in data collection and farmers' data rights.Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/agrinet-outdoor-smartfarm-expansion-2024https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/agrinet-outdoor-smartfarm-expansion-2024Korea's Rural Development Administration signed an eight-year partnership (2024–2032) with 12 technology companies to take smart farming into open fields — deploying private-sector technology across nine regional pilot districts and 123 test-bed training centers nationwide.Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-22https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-22In this in-depth interview, JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong lays out his view of where Korean agriculture goes next: beyond labor-saving automation, toward farming where data drives decisions.Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-21https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-21Agriculture Minister Song Mi-ryung visited a strawberry farm in Nonsan to meet growers and solution providers on their own ground. The farm runs a pest-forecasting service built on greenhouse environment and farm-work data — a working deployment of the solution JINONG co-developed with FarmHannong.Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-20https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-20Close-up Corporate Frontline, a program spotlighting the small and mid-sized companies it calls the roots of Korea's economy, paid JINONG a visit.Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kosfarm-expert-roundtable-2023https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kosfarm-expert-roundtable-2023KosFarm, 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.Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-19https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-19JINONG returns in a follow-up episode of 'New to Smart Farming', the YouTube web-entertainment series from EPIS, Korea's agri-food education agency. Comedian Yoon Hyo-dong — who started as a JINONG intern — is now a full-timer welcoming a junior recruit.Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-18https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-18The trade paper's CEO interview series sat down with JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong.Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-17https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-17JINONG stars in a season-two episode of 'New to Smart Farming', the YouTube web-entertainment series from EPIS, Korea's agri-food education agency.Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-16https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-16A policy forum at the National Assembly took up the question of Korea's smart farm playbook. JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong spoke as senior vice chair of the Korea Smart Farm Industry Association.Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kosfarm-magazine-vol1-jinong-2021https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kosfarm-magazine-vol1-jinong-2021KosFarm Magazine opened the research-site interview series of its inaugural issue with a visit to JINONG.Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-15https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-15Asia Today convened a Seoul policy forum in March 2021 on agriculture in the age of AI.Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kistep-forum-125-smartfarm-future-agriculture-2020https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/kistep-forum-125-smartfarm-future-agriculture-2020The full recording of the 125th KISTEP Wednesday Forum (September 2020) on the future of agriculture through smart farming — a keynote from KIST's Smart Farm Convergence Research Center, followed by an expert panel with Seoul National University and the Rural Development Administration.Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-14https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-14Money Today Network covered the 125th KISTEP Wednesday Forum, 'The Future of Agriculture Through Smart Farms', where panelists argued Korea's smart farm policy should stretch beyond production into distribution and consumption.Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/horticulture-smartfarm-data-greenhouse-management-seminar-2020https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/horticulture-smartfarm-data-greenhouse-management-seminar-2020An industry seminar on digital smart farming — latest analysis, business models, and field-proven cases — was held in Seoul in June 2020.Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-11https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-11A talk by JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong on the company's YouTube channel.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-12https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-12A talk by JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong on the company's YouTube channel.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-13https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-13A talk by JINONG CEO Park Heun-dong on the company's YouTube channel.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-10https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-10An introduction to FarmOS V2, the open smart farm controller developed by JINONG.Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-24https://jinong.co.kr/en/news/media/news-24Yonhap News reported on a smartphone-based smart farm technology commercialized by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology — and transferred to JINONG. IoT sensors stream eight kinds of growth data, from temperature and humidity to light, and growers can control their farms from a phone.Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT