{
  "id": 9086190,
  "title": "LG Uplus, Sodomall team up to develop AI solutions for small businesses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/lg-uplus-sodomall-team-up-to-develop-ai-solutions-for-small-businesses-9086190",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-22T05:17:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260922/lg-uplus-sodomall-team-up-to-develop-ai-solutions-for-small-businesses"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Korean telecommunications and technology provider LG Uplus has entered into a memorandum of understanding with wholesale and retail distribution platform Sodomall. The collaboration aims to create customized artificial intelligence (AI) transformation (AX) solutions specifically designed for small business owners. Sodomall operates a nationwide network of online and offline stores that sell groceries and daily necessities at wholesale prices. The partnership will focus on developing AI and telecom solutions for in-store use, enabling small merchants to expand their sales channels and identify new business opportunities to revitalize local commercial areas. LG Uplus intends to merge its telecom and AI infrastructure with Sodomall's extensive online and offline distribution data to assist individual merchants in predicting product demand. As part of the initiative, the companies plan to launch a pilot program that combines LG Uplus' Uri Gage Package, an AI communications and AI solution tailored for small businesses, with Sodomall's regional sales analysis feature.",
  "summary": "Korean telecommunications and technology services provider LG Uplus said Tuesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sodomall, a wholesale and retail distribution platform, to jointly develop artificial intelligence (AI) transformation (AX) solutions tailored to small business owners. Sodomall operates an online-and-offline distribution network that supplies groceries and daily…",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "LG Uplus, Sodomall team up to develop AI solutions for small businesses",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/lg-uplus-sodomall-team-up-to-develop-ai-solutions-for-small-businesses",
        "published": "2026-09-22T05:02:03.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}