Future Display

Dear members of the Korean Information Display Society. I hope this year will be filled with greater hope and joy for everyone.

Founded in 1999, the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS) has evolved into an academic organization with over 4,000 members through continuous activities over the past 24 years. Since then, we have been providing opportunities to strengthen our members' capabilities and present a venue for sharing information by implementing various programs and projects. This year, we aim to achieve higher growth and development by continuously overcoming challenges and being relentless in our efforts to introduce innovation.

For the past 20 years, Korea's display industry has been leading the market and the technology industry as it is ranked first in global market share. With the emergence of new technologies, such as AR/VR/MR, autonomous vehicles, AI, etc., the demand for new concept displays increased significantly. Thus, if Korea preemptively secures the display technology that can meet the demands of these new technologies, our display industry can leap forward internationally.

Thus, KIDS must play a key role in maintaining its reputation as a leader in the development of global display technology. To achieve this goal, representatives from the industry, academia, and research institutes must work together to integrate their knowledge and expertise, and solidify Korea's leadership through innovative solutions. Thus, we will focus on pursuing the following operating policies.

First, we will help our society into becoming a venue for an academic exchange that is member-oriented. We will strengthen such exchange by creating a space for communication and empathy centered on members, and continue to support various programs that promote exchange among senior and new members so that the society's objectives can be actively carried out.

Second, we will strive to establish a new forum to implement unprecedented industry-academia-research exchange. Moreover, we will help form networks with large companies as well as SMEs, and enhance the capabilities of domestic companies by providing academic and technical advice with the cooperation of academia and research institutes to address technical difficulties in the industry.

Third, we will actively utilize the various programs of KIDS in fostering excellent talent in the display field. We will further harness the ability of KDS (KIDS Display School), which has been in operation in the past 15 years, to assist in the employment of science and engineering majors and in the re-education of display-related workers. Moreover, we will expand the base of the talent pool for the Korean display industry, and sow the seeds for fostering next-generation talents by running display camps for elementary and middle school students, which have recently become a hot topic. We will also continue hosting PR activities so that students as well as the public can become aware of our society, and participate in our programs to acquire basic knowledge on displays.

Lastly, as our society hosts the International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) conference and publishes the Journal of Information Display (JID), nurturing them into reputable instruments would be the most effective way of elevating our authority as a society. Together with the Society of Information Display (SID), IMID has become the world's largest academic and exhibition event on displays. We will promote and strengthen relationships by operating in close cooperation with international display societies, including SID, International Conference on Display Technology (ICDT), and International Display Workshop (IDW). Moreover, we will seek to internationalize the IMID society by preparing measures that can further increase foreign participation. We will solidify this relationship by holding a joint forum with JID and relevant international journals to ensure that high-quality papers are submitted, thereby improving our Impact Factor (IF) and Journal Citation Report (JCR) rankings.

Thus, we are asking for your continued support to ensure the success of our key initiatives. We left our base at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Center near Gangnam Station, where the society was founded, and embarked on a new beginning in our society's new home at the Hanshin Intervalley near Seolleung Station. With an enterprising mindset, I will do my best to contribute to our display industry and the technology industry to maintain our country's top ranking.

I wish our members and KIDS as an institution unprecedented success in 2024, the year of the dragon.

President Kim Hyunjae
The Korean Information Display Society