Song Jong-woon, CEO of Isol Tech, a leading energy-efficient mobile modular structure company, said on the 21st that he was honored with the Presidential Commendation Award for his contribution to the commercialization of patented knowledge-based products and the infrastructure capacity of the national disaster medical industry at the 59th Invention Day celebration.

The National Intellectual Property Committee is a presidential committee established under the Framework Act on Intellectual Property, and is a key committee in the invention of the Republic of Korea that establishes and implements basic plans and implementation plans for the overall intellectual property of Korea with the Prime Minister as the chairman.

Prime Minister Han Deok-soo personally participated in the Invention Day event held at the International Conference Hall of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry to encourage and celebrate those who were awarded the Invention Day prize.

CEO Song Jong-woon introduced more than 30 patents and procurement innovation products at home and abroad. In the event of the COVID-19 pandemic, he/she developed and commercialized the world's first automated screening clinic by quickly responding to the crisis by utilizing his/her own modular structure energy saving and self-reliance technology while struggling due to blocked domestic and export routes. It was distributed to national medical facilities and successfully conducted R&D centered on central government departments, which is a consumer, and received excellent judgment. It has global intellectual property (IP) competitiveness by registering a number of innovative products with the government procurement agency.

CEO Song Jong-woon said, "We hope that the company's technologies and products can be used for multiple purposes in normal times or in national disasters, so that they can be used in corporate environment (E), social (S), governance (G) management and state-related infrastructure industries, which will greatly contribute to the promotion of national health and welfare." "We will continue to work harder on R&D in the future to become a leader in the global market with related products.".

Gwangju = Reporter Kim Han-sik hskim@etnews.com