LG Uplus CTO Bae Ju-hyeok to Lead the Cloud National Team
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LG Uplus CTO Bae Ju-hyeok will serve as head coach and an international expert for Korea's national team in the cloud computing category at the 48th International Skills Olympiad (WorldSkills Shanghai 2026).
The competition will be held in Shanghai, China, from the 22nd to the 27th, with more than 70 countries and regions and about 1,400 participants.
Bae has served as head coach three times since 2022 and helped Korea win its first-ever silver medal in the cloud computing category at the 2024 competition in Lyon, France.
LG Uplus said on the 17th that Bae Ju-hyeok, its chief technology officer, will serve as head coach of the Korean national team in the cloud computing category at the 48th International Skills Olympiad (WorldSkills Shanghai 2026) and will also serve concurrently as an international expert. Bae is a member of the LG Uplus UCube DAX team.
This marks a case in which an LG Uplus cloud specialist working in the field is taking part in coaching the Korean national team for the International Skills Olympiad. It is drawing attention as an example of connecting industrial know-how with the cultivation of national technical talent, with a corporate cloud systems practitioner directly involved in athlete training and competition operations.
The competition will be held in Shanghai, China, from the 22nd to the 27th. The International Skills Olympiad is the world’s largest skills competition, held every two years.
More than 70 countries and regions will take part this year, with about 1,400 athletes, international experts and others participating. Events will be held across fields including information and communications technology (ICT), machinery and construction, and there are 64 competition categories.
The cloud computing category evaluates the ability to design, build and operate IT infrastructure in a cloud environment within a limited time. This category is not centered on checking cloud knowledge. It is conducted as a competition to test practical skills in implementing infrastructure and solving problems under conditions similar to a real service environment.
The spread of cloud adoption across industries and the growing demand for specialized talent led to this category being officially adopted at the International Skills Olympiad in 2019. The competition is run in a format in which each country's representative athlete completes different tasks each day over four days. Final rankings are determined by combining the results of each task's evaluation. This year, 17 countries are participating, including Korea, China, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Switzerland and South Africa.
The cloud computing category is characterized by rapid technological change. As a result, linking industry with education and training is regarded as an important factor. A model in which a specialist who works with real cloud systems at a company coaches the national team is also presented as one example.
Such coordination is expected to help reflect training in technical concepts. It is also expected to help reflect training in infrastructure configuration experience. Reflecting training in incident response experience and in problem-solving methods within a limited time are also cited as expected benefits.
Bae has served as head coach of Korea's national cloud computing team for the International Skills Olympiad three times, from the 2022 competition through this year. In the process, he contributed to Korea winning its first-ever silver medal in the cloud computing category at the International Skills Olympiad in Lyon, France, in 2024.
In addition, at the 2025 WorldSkills Asia, Bae will become the first Korean to serve as chief expert in the cloud computing category. The chief expert is the top official for the category, overseeing the competition format, task design and overall operation of the event.
Along with coaching national team athletes, Bae is also involved in the evaluation and operations systems of international competitions. These activities are presented as meaning that the expertise of domestic cloud practitioners has been recognized on the global stage.
Since first taking part in the International Skills Olympiad in 1967, Korea has recorded 19 overall victories. At the 2024 Lyon competition, it finished second overall behind China, and it will aim for its 20th overall victory at this year's Shanghai competition.
Bae explained that the International Skills Olympiad is a stage where young technical talent from around the world competes in skill, and said he would support Korean athletes so they can deliver their best performance based on that spirit. He also said he would support efforts to promote Korea's cloud technology competitiveness globally.
Source: IT DAILY · Lee Jae-young
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