Blockchain for 35 Million Users: Korea’s Biggest Insurance Firm SK Partners With ICONICON, South Korea’s most valuable blockchain project, has partnered with the country’s biggest telecommunications conglomerate SK, to possibly utilize blockchain technology and crypto in compensating users of its mileage system.
SK Planet, a subsidiary of SK that signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ICON, operates the most widely utilized mileage system in the country that has nearly 35 million users, more than half of the country’s population.
In the months ahead, SK Planet is expected to collaborate with the ICON team to utilize its blockchain technology in supporting mobile services as well as its mileage system OK Cashbag.
Monumental Partnership
In July, Hani, a mainstream media outlet in South Korea, reported that OK Cashbag, the mileage system of SK, has initiated the process of developing a blockchain-based system to handle mileage payouts and various business models.
“OK Cashbag has approved the initiation of OKX Project, a blockchain technology-based project, and is currently in a phase of reviewing various business models and incentivization methods. But, SKPlanet will not engage in any initial coin offering (ICO) or fund raising pertaining to OKX Project,” Hani reported.
At the time, SK Planet did not provide any additional information on the technical intricacies of its blockchain project nor any partners the company intends to work with to streamline the process of integrating blockchain technology into its existing infrastructure.
The MoU signed between ICON and SK Planet has demonstrated the long-term strategy of SK to actively pursue its plans to integrate blockchain technology. Experts have suggested that the partnership between ICON and Line, one of the biggest messaging apps in Asia, encouraged SK to work with ICON to release its first blockchain product.
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