The Korean Broadcasters Association, Blocko, and AERGO signs MOU to build the first of it’s kind blockchain based audience participation application

On 23 April the Korean Broadcasters Association, Blocko and AERGO foundation signed an MOU to build a blockchain-based global viewer participation service application on the AERGO platform.

The Korean Broadcasters Association plans to create a variety of viewer-participation services, in the media content area, using blockchain-based app development. The association especially focuses on introducing a voting system to select the winners for Korea Broadcasting Prizes and the Seoul International Drama Awards based on the AERGO platform.

Kyeong-Tae Kim, the secretary general of the Korean Broadcasters Association, stated that, “Reliability is key in the industry and expects to create a new, trustworthy voting system where viewers can directly participate by incorporating blockchain technology.”

The app service plans to support English, Chinese, Japanese and other languages for overseas viewers so that overseas fans can participate and communicate directly online.

About Korean Broadcasters Association

The Korean Broadcasters Association founded in 1974 by domestic terrestrial broadcasters has grown with the Korean broadcasting industry and culture. Through offering various cooperation to provide the 40 members with high quality and diverse broadcasting services, the KBA is continuously trying its best. The KBA will continue to support for the better environment of the viewers as the solid backbone of the broadcasting industry

About Blocko

Blocko is a blockchain technology company established in 2014 and a key partner of AERGO. To expand the blockchain ecosystem, Blocko has worked with various national institutions and customers such as the Bank of Korea, Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Financial Security Agency, and Financial Clearinghouse, and large domestic and foreign companies including Korea Exchange, Shinhan Financial Group, Hyundai Motor Group, Lotte Card, and Gyeonggi Province. Blocko is the nation’s largest blockchain infrastructure provider that has built blockchain-based services to financial and public institutions.

About AERGO

AERGO is a hybrid enterprise blockchain platform that encompasses public and private blockchains, based on the core technology, verified through numerous deployment cases. AERGO provides a foundation for companies of various sizes to develop innovative applications based on a distributed trustless and serverless ecosystem.