“Data defines quality — and quality defines price.”

In October, Dubai hosted GITEX GLOBAL 2025, the world’s largest ICT exhibition, bringing together more than 3,500 global tech companies from over 180 countries.
And right in the spotlight stood a remarkable innovation from Korea — TmaxTibero’s AI-based Dried Seaweed Quality Grading Solution.

More than just a technology demo, it was a moment that proved the potential for AI to establish a new global standard in quality assessment.

When AI Meets Seaweed: Solving the “Intuition Problem”

Korean dried seaweed (“gim”) is a quiet export powerhouse — a ₩1 trillion market that holds 70% of the global share.
But despite its global reach, the industry has long relied on subjective, visual inspections by experts rather than scientific, data-backed standards.

This often meant that high-quality products failed to earn fair prices. Depending on personal experience and intuition, buyers and producers often ended up seeing quality differently — creating an inevitable gap in expectations.

To solve this, TmaxTibero partnered with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Mokpo Marine Food Industry Support Center to develop an AI-driven quality grading solution for dried seaweed.

Turning Intuition into Data: How the AI Quality Platform Works

TmaxTibero’s platform introduces a groundbreaking non-destructive AI inspection method — no cutting, no sampling, just data.

How it works:

1. Specialized optical sensors scan the surface of each seaweed sheet.
2. Seven key quality indicators — protein, moisture, color, impurities, holes, weight, and size — are quantified.
3. An AI model trained on over 50,000 data samples instantly classifies the sheet into one of seven quality grades.

Performance leap:

1. 15× faster than traditional manual evaluation — up to 100 sheets analyzed in under 2 minutes.
2. Accuracy already exceeds 90%, with a target of 95% by year-end.

The result? A data-driven, transparent, and fair grading system where data, not human perception, defines quality.

Korean dried seaweed already surpasses Japan in quality and China in hygiene standards. This AI solution is the scientific tool that finally proves it.”
— Young-Seung Yoon, Director, Mokpo Marine Food Industry Support Center

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Standardizing Food Quality Data Worldwide

At GITEX, visitors from across the globe — including corporations, research institutions, and government agencies — expressed strong interest in Tibero’s AI technology.

Building Trust Through AI, Powered by Tibero

GITEX GLOBAL 2025 proved that Korea’s AI-based quality standardization can become a trust framework for global trade.

From seaweed to seafood, agriculture, and even materials, Tibero’s AI quality solution is now recognized as a core enabler of data standardization across industries.

“AI isn’t just about evaluating quality — it’s about creating trust through data.
And Tibero is the language that underpins that trust.”
— Hyung-Gon Jung, Head of AI Center, TmaxTibero

 

 

What’s Next: The AI Seaweed Trading Platform

TmaxTibero is developing an integrated AI trading platform that combines quality assessment, traceability, and price lookup in one system.

This platform will soon power Korea’s International Dried Seaweed Exchange, connecting quality grades and trading records via blockchain — establishing a “trusted data model” for the global market.

In the age of AI, a database is no longer just a place to store data. It’s the foundation that allows AI to learn from trusted information and verify predictions in real time.

We’re entering an era where AI defines quality — and Tibero guarantees it.
And as Korea’s data standards evolve into global trust benchmarks, Tibero will be at the center of that journey.

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