{"id":1266,"date":"2020-06-23T15:35:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2024-06-21T15:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T06:38:33","slug":"digital-drivers-license-service-now-available-in-korea-through-identity-authentication-app-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/1266","title":{"rendered":"Digital Driver\u2019s License Service Now Available in Korea through Identity Authentication App PASS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM), together with KT and LG Uplus, today launched a digital driver\u2019s license service on PASSLaunched in July 2018, PASS currently has 30 million subscribers and is mainly used for authentication in mobile financial transactions.<\/small><\/span>, an identity authentication app provided by the three mobile carriers.<\/p>\n

Developed jointly by the three mobile carriers, the Korean National Police Agency and the Road Traffic Authority (KoRoad), the digital driver\u2019s license marks the first case where a digital version of an official identification is used as a legally acceptable form of identity verification.<\/p>\n

Subscribers of PASS can register their driver\u2019s license on the app through a verification and encryption process. Users can only use one smartphone registered under their own names.<\/p>\n

To confirm the authenticity of the information on the driver\u2019s license and block attempts to register counterfeit driver\u2019s license, the three mobile carriers connected their identity authentication servers to the Korean National Police Agency\u2019s driver\u2019s license system and applied blockchain technology.<\/p>\n

For identity verification, the app will show the user\u2019s photo on his\/her driver\u2019s license along with a QR code and barcode. To prevent theft or illegal use of identity information, the codes are automatically refreshed and come with a floating animation layer.<\/p>\n

The new digital driver\u2019s license service is applied to all stores of convenient store chains CU and GS25. For instance, the digital driver\u2019s license can be used to verify age at convenient stores for the purchase of age-limited goods such as alcohol and cigarettes.<\/p>\n

In addition, from July 2020, the digital driver\u2019s license will be used for reissuance and renewal of a driver\u2019s license, as well as issuance of a driver\u2019s license in English at 27 Driver\u2019s License Examination Offices located throughout Korea.<\/p>\n

The Korean National Police Agency is reviewing plans to apply the digital driver\u2019s license service to police work that involves identity verification such as a check by traffic police. Moreover, the three mobile carriers are in talks with companies in the car rental and shared mobility industries to adopt the digital driver\u2019s license to facilitate non-face-to-face services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to launch the digital driver\u2019s license service, which will provide users with greater security and convenience,\u201d said Oh Se-hyeon, Vice President and Head of Blockchain\/Authentication Office at SK Telecom. \u201cGoing forward, we will work closely with diverse institutions and enterprises to promote its use in non-face-to-face services, which have surged since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Korean National Police Agency will make concerted efforts with the three Korean mobile carriers to boost the usage of the digital driver\u2019s license service, which can help address social problems caused by theft or illegal use of driver\u2019s license,\u201d said Min Gap-ryong, commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM), together with KT and LG Uplus, today launched a digital driver\u2019s license service on PASSLaunched in July 2018, PASS currently has 30 million subscribers and is mainly used for authentication in mobile financial transactions., an identity authentication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-pass"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}