AI and Technology
Jeju Moves Past Tourism, Toward a Space Data City
The first event at the newly opened Island Worklab Hamdeok brought together AWS, Nara Space, STEPI, and others to work out how Jeju becomes an aerospace data cluster, and how that meets tourism and the humanities.
- 28 Nov 2025, completed
Conference Details
- Date
- 28 November 2025
- Venue
- Island Worklab Hamdeok
- Taking part
- AWS, Nara Space, STEPI, TelePIX, Contec, and others
Keynotes: Differentiating on Data
- Park Hyun-jun, Senior Research Fellow, STEPIFor Jeju to become the fourth pillar of the national space industry, alongside research in Daejeon, satellite manufacture in Sacheon, and launch vehicles in Jeonnam, it has to claim data analysis and the downstream applications first.
- Yoo Won-doo of AWS and Kim Min-sik of Nara SpaceAnalyse Jeju's weather, environment, and tourism data on standard cloud infrastructure, and Jeju becomes a testbed that space companies anywhere would want to use.
- Solving problems hereTelePIX and Contec showed concrete work using on-board AI and ground-station infrastructure on Jeju's own problems, from disaster prevention to farm productivity.
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What Came of It
- The opening event for Island Worklab Hamdeok
- A role and a strategy for Jeju as the fourth pillar of the national space industry
- A way to differentiate on data and to claim the downstream applications
- Models for a Jeju space ecosystem, including ground-based space tourism and art-technology work
- Jeju as a place where aerospace people and companies come to stay, work, and learn