Chat With Sejong Using AI, Arrange Music... MCST to Hold Digital Innovation Forum on the 17th

[Financial News] If you ask Sejong why he created Hangul, AI searches sources such as the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty for an answer. An idea was also proposed to simplify complex accompaniment so that cochlear implant users can hear music more clearly. The two examples will be presented at the Digital Innovation Forum hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
According to MCST on the 16th, the 4th Culture, Sports and Tourism Digital Innovation Forum will be held on the 17th from 10 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. at Grace Hall on the sixth floor of El Tower in Seocho District, Seoul. It is jointly organized by the Korea Culture Information Service Agency (KCISA), the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, the Korea Tourism Organization, Arts Council Korea and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA). Around 400 people from government, public institutions and the private sector are expected to attend.
Following the opening, the forum will hold an awards ceremony for the 4th Culture, Sports and Tourism AI and Data Utilization Contest. Fifteen winning entries were selected across five categories in three fields: new technology use, cultural data use and data analysis. The grand prize winner in each category will receive the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award. The total prize money is 50 million won.
Hyeondap, the grand prize winner in the outstanding new technology use category, provides answers based on historical records in the form of conversations with historical figures. Users can check the cited passages in the original texts through links. CI-SoundFit, the grand prize winner in the ideas category in the same field, is a concept that simplifies accompaniment and harmonies while preserving the main melody and vocals, allowing users to choose an arrangement they can hear clearly. DoranDoran, the grand prize winner in the outstanding cultural data use category, adjusts the vocabulary and sentence length of traditional folktales to suit a child’s reading level.
After the grand prize winners are announced, Choi Jae-bong, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University, will deliver a keynote lecture titled “How Should We Live in a World Transformed by AI?” In the afternoon, expert presentations and discussions will take place in four tracks: culture and sports, arts, tourism and content.
The culture and sports track will examine the adoption of AI in the public and sports sectors and examples of cultural data use. The arts track will explore the possibilities and responsibilities of creating with AI. The tourism track will present examples of robots and real-time translation being used in the field, while the content track will discuss ways to incorporate AI into visual effects (VFX), games and other areas.
Hyeondap and DoranDoran will be on display at the venue. Visitors can also try generative AI photography, body-shape analysis and real-time interpretation and translation services.
A policy official at MCST said, “We hope this forum will serve as an opportunity to share the results of AI use in the culture, sports and tourism sectors and explore directions for innovation in new cultural services and industries.”
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