Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) said on the 4th that on the morning of the 2nd it held a New Year kickoff ceremony at its headquarters in Bundang, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, with executives and employees attending, and officially began its New Year's work to lead the global digital order in step with the AI-native era.
Through this kickoff ceremony, TTA shared its achievements from last year, including receiving an excellent grade in the national R&D evaluation of the ICT standardization project, supporting regulation of digital medical products for the Ministery of Food and Drug Safety, and verifying commercial drones for the Ministry of National Defense, successfully expanding its business into various new industries. Based on this, it declared 2026 a year of innovative growth to take a further leap as a specialized institution leading the securing of AI reliability, a key driver of the three leading AI nations, and to establish global standards for digital trust.
Throughout 2025, TTA carried out multifaceted activities to improve customer convenience and reflect on-the-ground feedback. By opening a dedicated customer communication main number, integrating the previously seven separate intake windows for verification of R&D results, and overhauling its website, it substantially strengthened customer access.
To further increase customer satisfaction, TTA plans to continue efforts such as streamlining test application documents, enhancing real-time updates on test and certification progress, and expanding customer satisfaction training and test certification quality training for employees.
At the ceremony, the association also offered encouragement and held an awards presentation for employees who improved work efficiency through creative challenges over the past year and elevated the association's external standing. In the "AI-ON Project" contest to introduce AI technology into work, Senior Principal Moon Eun-ju, Senior Principal Cho Jin-woo, and Senior Researcher Kim Min-jun, who jointly proposed the "conversational LLM orchestration work automation platform," received the grand prize.
The association's highest honor, "TTA person of the year (best employee award)," went to Vice Minister Lee Kyung-jae for contributing to the operation of the AI-ON Project and the activation of AI education. In addition, Director General Cha Soon-il and Senior Principal Choi Jae-hyeok received presidential commendations for contributions to national industrial development, while awards from many national and related agencies were also presented, including the Minister of Science and ICT award (Director General Kang Bu-mi and nine others) and the National Intelligence Service Head of Team award (Head of Team Kim Jae-beom), for a total of 46 honorees.
TTA President Son Seung-hyeon said, "In 2026, under the goal of being 'the core institution responsible for the reliability of the three leading AI nations,' we will devote all our efforts to responding to the future technology hegemony race in areas such as 6G and quantum, and to advancing standardization and the AI reliability testing and certification system as a 'global rule-setter' in the AX (AI transformation) era."