Cho Pung Youn (CEO of METABUILD) was selected as the Meritor of Medal for Korea Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Innovation Awards this year. The ceremony for the 2016 Korea ICT Innovation Awards hosted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning will be held at the aT center in Seoul on the 29th.

The purpose of this Award is to reward the companies and organizations that have contributed to the realization of the creative economy through the fusion between ICT / Software and to disseminate the best innovation cases and promote ICT / SW convergence and public awareness.

The recipient Cho Pung Youn has worked in the ICT field for 30 years. He is the head of Korea Commercial SW Association. METABUILD where he belongs as a CEO developed a radar detection technology for road surveillance, developed commercial technology for integrated middleware products, contributed to industrial development by securing various original technologies..

Jang Seok-young, the Internet policy director of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, said,  "ICT Innovation Awards winners are the leading actors who broke the inter-industrial barriers into convergence and made the leap ahead of the economy" and "ICT's integration emerged as a key factor of the fourth industrial revolution so the meaning of the award is great. "​ ​