Chief Marketing Officer, Samsung
Search every verified S. Kim interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Joowan Kim, Vice President of Samsung Electronics and head of mobile service strategy including blockchain, spoke at the 2019 Korea Blockchain Week about a partnership with the blockchain company Lympo. Kim stated that Samsung Health users are not active in entering fitness data because it is inconvenient, and described a pilot program in which users’ step data, with permission, is transferred to Lympo’s blockchain app. He said that users who walk 5,000 steps a day receive token rewards as an incentive, and that a closed test of the program was “very successful.” Kim said that some issues current services cannot solve “can be solved with Blockchain, so more security and usability can be provided.” He added that Samsung would try to address these challenges not only for Samsung Health but also for other services, aiming to “provide better quality services for our users.”
Vice President of Samsung Electronics, Joowan Kim, who is also in charge of major mobile service strategy and business development, including blockchain, introduced Lympo case at the biggest S.Korea blockchain event, "Korea blockchain week."
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