The South Korean telecom big SK Telecom has introduced it should concern its first digital pockets for blockchain-powered digital certificates storage and administration with the approval of the Ministry of Public Administration and Safety.

According to NewsTomato, SK’s Pockets is appropriate with the ministry’s personal Government24 digital certificates initiative, which promotes the usage of digital certificates issuance and distribution methods in South Korea within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SK Telecom’s digitalized public certificates embrace copies of resident registration playing cards, medical insurance qualification certificates, immigration certificates, amongst different paperwork beforehand issued on paper and signed by hand. They are going to be now issued via a cell app backed by blockchain know-how.

Certificates issued via the Government24 app will be acquired within the SK’s pockets and later submitted to public entities, monetary establishments, and personal corporations as digital paperwork.

Within the preliminary stage, 13 kinds of certificates shall be appropriate with the pockets, however on the finish of the 12 months, SK Telecom plans to make it appropriate with “a complete of 100 sorts” of certificates, together with tax-related paperwork.

Oh Se-hyun, head of SK Telecom’s Blockchain & Certification Enterprise Division, argued that blockchain is an important know-how in a society that’s “quickly altering as a result of want for non-face-to-face options the place we’d like innovation within the means of submitting and processing certificates centered on paper paperwork and handbook work.”

He additionally highlighted the safety benefits that the know-how may convey to such processes.

Lately, it was revealed that a million South Koreans have foregone their bodily drivers licenses in favor of a blockchain-powered digital different used together with the PASS smartphone app.

This represents greater than 3% of the complete driving inhabitants in South Korea, which sat at 32.6 million licensed drivers in 2019 in keeping with Statista.