“AI for social value, too”: SK Group’s Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies (CSES) leads Korea-China cooperation at Beijing Forum

[Financial News] Founded by SK Group, CSES is seeking to expand Korea-China cooperation by leveraging technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to measure social value. It shared examples of using digital technology to solve social problems and proposed ways to objectively measure the real-world impact of companies’ social contribution activities.
CSES announced on the 9th that it had held a social value (SV) session at the 2026 Beijing Forum, which took place at Peking University in China on the 7th.
The Beijing Forum is an international academic forum jointly hosted by Peking University and the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies since 2004. CSES organized a session as part of one of the forum’s 12 divisions, focusing on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social value measurement using digital technology.
This year’s session organized by CSES was attended by representatives from academia and business in both Korea and China, including the Peking University Education Foundation, Peking University, Tencent, SK China, SK hynix, and the China Social Enterprise and Impact Investment Forum (CSEIF).
CSES presented the results of a Chinese emergency response project it researched jointly with Tencent and others.
The project, jointly researched this year by CSES, Tencent and others, is a Tencent social contribution initiative aimed at improving initial emergency care for cardiac arrest patients before they are transported to a hospital.
The project established a digital emergency response system in Bao’an District, Shenzhen, linking emergency centers, citizen volunteers and automated external defibrillators (AEDs). It saved 95 lives, and 428 rescue attempts were made.
CSES also introduced SEE SV, an AI-based platform for measuring and evaluating social value. The platform combines AI technology with the expertise in social value measurement that SK Group has built up over 10 years through initiatives such as Double Bottom Line (DBL) management and the Social Performance Incentive (SPC).
Under the system, AI proposes a draft measurement based on assessment criteria developed after reviewing 725 indicators, and the person in charge verifies the supporting evidence. While existing social contribution activities have been evaluated mainly on inputs and outputs, such as project budgets and participant numbers, SEE SV focuses on measuring the tangible changes a project brings to society.
Na Seok-kwon, CEO of CSES, said, “With this forum as an opportunity, we will expand research and cooperation between Korea and China and work to ensure that technological advances go beyond benefiting a few and improve everyone’s lives and contribute to shared prosperity.”
CSES plans to continue enhancing its AI-based measurement platform and expand joint research between Korea and China. It aims to support the use of social value measurement not merely for reporting results, but as a decision-making tool to improve companies’ social contribution projects.

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