KT Reviews Disaster Communications Response After Building Sports Development Results
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KT said 18 athletes from kt sports competed as national team members at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
They won 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 2 bronze medals, and the women's hockey team advanced to the semifinals.
KT also took part in a pan-government drill assuming a major wildfire to review its communications network restoration response system in a disaster.
KT highlighted moves to strengthen athlete development and disaster communications response capabilities at the same time. The company secured Asian Games results in sports it has supported for years, while also participating in a pan-government drill assuming a major wildfire to review its network restoration system.
At the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, 18 athletes from kt sports competed as national team members. They took part in 5 events, with the 18 athletes made up of 3 from kt wiz, 1 from kt sonicboom, 1 from kt rolster, 3 from the KT shooting team, and 10 from the KT hockey team. That was 5 more than the 13 athletes who competed at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
The athletes won 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 2 bronze medals. In particular, 10 members of the KT hockey team competed as national team members in women's hockey, and KT hockey players accounted for half of the 20 athletes on the women's hockey national team. The women's hockey team advanced to the semifinals in this tournament.
Separately, KT took part in a pan-government drill assuming a major wildfire. Through this, it checked its response system for restoring communications networks in a disaster.
Athletes from teams operated by KT or affiliated with KT delivered medal results by event at this tournament. Park Ha-jun won a silver medal in the 10 m air rifle mixed team event in shooting and a bronze medal in the men's team event in shooting, while Jeong Seung-woo added a bronze medal in the men's 50 m rifle 3 positions team event. Jang Guk-hui took silver in the skeet mixed team event.
Results also continued in ball sports and e-sports. Baseball won the gold medal, with So Hyeong-joon, Eom Won-seok and Park Yeong-hyeon of kt wiz contributing to the baseball team's victory. Basketball also took gold, with Mun Jeong-hyeon of kt sonicboom winning gold in men's basketball. E-sports also won gold, and Yeon Je-gil of kt rolster took gold in the e-sports fighting game team event.
KT founded its women's hockey team in 1984 and its shooting team in 1985. It currently operates teams in 5 sports, including baseball, basketball and e-sports. Rather than focusing on short-term results, KT has continued to support long-term athlete development and training infrastructure, and linked that approach to this tournament's results.
Lee Seon-ju, CEO of kt sports, expressed pride in the Republic of Korea's national team athletes who demonstrated their skills on the international stage. She also voiced her commitment to promoting competitiveness across diverse sports and strengthening the foundation for athlete development.
KT said it participated on the 2nd in the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's '2026 READY Korea Integrated Wildfire Suppression Drill,' held in Chilgok County, Gyeongsangbuk-do, to inspect its disaster communications response system ahead of the fall wildfire season. READY Korea is a pan-government disaster preparedness drill in which central government ministries, local governments, firefighting authorities, forestry authorities and private companies participate together.
The drill was conducted on the assumption that a major wildfire had broken out. KT said it was the only telecommunications company to participate on site as the operator of the disaster safety communications network.
Assuming a situation in which wildfire damage had affected communications facilities, KT activated its emergency contact network and identified whether there were communication outages and the scope of the impact. It also shared the situation between headquarters and the field, and reviewed restoration procedures together with its group affiliates and partner companies.
On site, a vehicle carrying a mobile base station for the disaster safety communications network and a vehicle carrying a commercial network mobile base station were deployed at the same time. This allowed the company to maintain the disaster safety communications network for disaster response agencies, provide emergency communications to residents in affected areas, and verify the national disaster response communications system.
The drill served as an opportunity for KT to reexamine field restoration, emergency communications support and interagency collaboration procedures in a major disaster.
KT said it plans to continue strengthening its disaster response capabilities as a communications infrastructure provider while also supporting long-term athlete development in sports. Hwang Gyeong-hui, executive vice president and head of the Eastern NW Operations Division in KT's Network Division, said rapid on-site response and restoration capabilities are important to provide stable communications services in disaster situations, and said the company plans to continue strengthening its network response capabilities during disasters based on cooperation with relevant institutions.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407771
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