SEOUL, July 21 (AJP) - Kookmin University wrapped up a three-day international symposium on information security and e-business in Seoul earlier this month, walking away with 10 cooperation agreements signed with universities and a company abroad, the university said in a statement on Tuesday.
The event, called EBISION 2026, was the second symposium held under Working Group 8.4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), a nonprofit that coordinates ICT research across more than 100 countries. It ran from July 8 to 10 and pulled in researchers and industry officials from 11 countries. Over the three days, presenters delivered 91 papers, 50 as oral talks and the rest as posters, and more than half came from outside South Korea.
Kookmin University (KMU)'s Yoo Il-sun chaired the symposium. He is a professor in the university's Department of Information Security, Cryptology and Mathematics and also directs its Global ICT Convergence Security Innovation Research Center. At the opening ceremony, President Jeong Seung-ryul told attendees that international joint research and closer industry-academia ties would be needed to keep up with AI-driven digital transformation and advances in quantum technology. Son Jin-sik, the university's vice president for planning, also attended.
Six of the 10 agreements were memorandums of understanding, a firmer commitment to work together, and four were letters of intent, an earlier-stage signal that two sides plan to collaborate. Kookmin signed memorandums with National Taiwan University, Asia University, Tunghai University and National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, plus King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok in Thailand and the electronics maker Delta Electronics. The letters of intent went to the Technical University of Denmark, the National Technical University of Athens, the University of Murcia in Spain and Sweden's Luleå University of Technology.
The university also used the symposium to talk with Yokohama National University about launching a dual-degree program. Yokohama's vice president, Junji Shikata, was in Seoul to receive the IFIP WG 8.4 Distinguished Lecturer Award, and officials from both schools discussed student exchanges and joint teaching and research while he was there.
Keynote and invited sessions featured researchers tied to several of the partner institutions. Delta Electronics chief technology officer Tei-Wei Kuo spoke on AI-driven digital transformation, and Nicola Dragoni of the Technical University of Denmark and Antonio F. Skarmeta of the University of Murcia covered cyber threat intelligence. Manos Varvarigos, a vice president at the National Technical University of Athens, presented on next-generation network architecture and security for high-performance computing.
Eight companies took part in an industry session, including KT, Japan's ZenmuTech, China's Sangfor and Taiwan's AI DataBrushing, each giving technical presentations and live demonstrations. KT laid out what it calls a four-layer network security framework built for the AI and quantum era.
"Researchers and industry figures in e-business information systems and ICT convergence security shared their main findings and technology trends at this symposium," Yoo said. "We will build on the memorandums and letters of intent signed during the event to develop concrete international joint research and industry-academia projects."
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