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CFS Summer Championship 2024 Winner Announcement

The last day of the 2023 CFS Summer Championship also ended successfully at Hanoi with cheers and shouts for joy.<br>Congratulations to team WOLF EMPIRE for their brilliant victory in the CFS Summer Championship 2024! Team WOLF EMPIRE triumphed over top teams from around the world with exceptional performance and teamwork, earning their region another slot in the CFS 2024 Grand Finals!

The Vietnamese IT Market from the Perspective of a Korean IT Expert: Rise as an IT Outsourcing Hub(1)

Living in Vietnam after experiences with Samsung SDS, Microsoft, AWS, and Head of SK C&C Cloud in Korea, particularly as the Country Manager for Smilegate Vietnam, has been a stroke of luck for me. The unknown friendliness and comfort I felt during my first visit to Ho Chi Minh City in 2010, coupled with the rapid changes, increased my interest in the country. Korea and Vietnam share commonalities in their historical struggles, overcoming challenges such as the survival struggle against the Chinese unification dynasty, Buddhist and Confucian cultures, colonial periods, and the North-South division.

Smilegate's Global No. 1 FPS CROSSFIRE to be Adapted into New Animation Series by Prime Video & Blur Studio

The animation is a 15-minute TV episode based on the CROSSFIRE universe. It will be featured in the new adult-animated anthology series Secret Level, which comprises 15 episodes produced by Blur Studio, renowned for Netflix's hit series Love, Death & Robots. Tim Miller, director of Deadpool (2016) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), is the executive producer and introduced the project at Gamescom 2024 himself. Secret Level will be available on Prime Video on December 10th.

Part 2: Can AI replace the technical skills of developers leading the digital world?

Living in Vietnam after experiences with Samsung SDS, Microsoft, AWS, and Head of SK C&C Cloud in Korea, particularly as the Country Manager for Smilegate Vietnam, has been a stroke of luck for me. The unknown friendliness and comfort I felt during my first visit to Ho Chi Minh City in 2010, coupled with the rapid changes, increased my interest in the country. Korea and Vietnam share commonalities in their historical struggles, overcoming challenges such as the survival struggle against the Chinese unification dynasty, Buddhist and Confucian cultures, colonial periods, and the North-South division.

AI-driven replacement of software development, present and future

Software development is relatively slow compared to hardware development. The hardware field has developed rapidly in line with Moore's Law (the phenomenon in which the performance of semiconductor chips doubles every 18 to 24 months). Since hardware such as processors and memory mainly aims to improve physical performance, immediate performance improvements can be expected through new manufacturing processes and design techniques as technology advances. On the other hand, unlike hardware, software development must be designed and developed to meet the diverse needs of users, and in this process, the complexity increases greatly depending on the customer's business domain (finance, games, distribution, manufacturing, etc.). Even if new programming languages, development methodologies, and frameworks are introduced, developers spend a lot of time learning actually to apply and use them, and technical debt causes risks and change management costs associated with the introduction of new technologies.

Smilegate's Lost Ark becomes second most played game on Steam

It's the first time a Korean game has passed the 1 million mark since Krafton’s PUBG four years ago.