**Kakao Mobility and Toss CX Announcements**
– **Kakao Mobility Junior Lab Camp Recruitment**: Kakao Mobility is recruiting participants for the 5th Junior Lab camp, aimed at providing coding education and mentoring for the teenage children and grandchildren of taxi drivers. The camp will be held from January 28 to 31 at the Kakao AI Campus in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. It will feature coding lessons, team creative activities, and mentoring by current developers, all centered around future smart mobility. Any middle school-aged children or grandchildren of taxi drivers nationwide can apply, regardless of their association with Kakao T Taxi. Applications are open until December 4, and 30 participants will be selected.
– **Toss CX’s New Consultation Center in Busan**: Viva Republica’s subsidiary, Toss CX, has opened a new, big data-driven consultation center in Haeundae Centum City, Busan. This is the first consultation center established by Toss CX outside Seoul. The center aims to create a sustainable job ecosystem and expand local talent hiring, with plans to recruit a three-digit number of local talents by the end of the year. Additionally, the company plans to enhance consultation quality and develop AI learning materials.
– **Kakao’s Impact Commerce Kakao Makers Event**: Kakao announced the hosting of an awards ceremony for the “Revived Paper Pack: Newlogy” competition. This event is part of a project exploring the new uses of waste materials, aimed at raising public awareness about resource circulation. In the design category, office partition furniture made from waste paper packs received the top prize, while an educational cartoon on improving awareness of sterilized pack recycling won in the content category.