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KANAK, launch of new biometric authentication and payment solution Handit service

(From left) Fujitsu CEO Park Kyung-joo, Seoul Special City Dental Hospital for the Disabled Director Kim Seong-gyun, and Connect Co., Ltd. CEO Lee Won-il


Biofintech leader Connex Inc. (CEO Won-il Lee) announced on the 27th that it has newly launched a biometric authentication and payment solution, Handit (hereinafter referred to as Handit). The first affiliate of the Handit service is Seoul Metropolitan City Dental Hospital for the Disabled (Director Sung-kyun Kim), which was introduced with the aim of improving the payment environment and increasing convenience for disabled patients. After completing the pre-registration process through the Handit app, customers can register their palm vein biometric information at the front desk located on the first floor of the hospital and then use the medical fee payment service through palm payment. After completing the initial registration process once, they can freely use it without any additional procedures when visiting again, which is expected to further increase payment convenience for patients who need to visit multiple times until treatment is completed.



Seoul Metropolitan City Dental Hospital for the Disabled was established in 2005 as the first dental hospital specializing in the disabled in Korea, and is a model hospital with the best facilities and cutting-edge medical equipment in the country. It strives to promote oral health by providing advanced medical technology and quality medical services to disabled patients who have limited access to dental treatment.



KANAK Co., Ltd. is a leading biofintech company. After becoming the first PG (electronic payment agency) company to pass the Financial Supervisory Service’s biometric authentication service terms and conditions review in May of last year, it has been focusing all its efforts on the development of Handit. It won the R&D Innovation Award at the Korea Leading Companies Awards for two consecutive years and is strengthening security based on distributed storage of biometric information and quantum-resistant encryption algorithms.



In October of last year, the two companies signed an MOU to improve payment convenience and accessibility for disabled patients at the Seoul Special City Dental Hospital for the Disabled. Director Kim Seong-gyun of the Dental Hospital for the Disabled said, “I am glad that the agreement between the two companies last year has come to fruition,” and added, “By utilizing Handit palm payment, we will be able to resolve the inconveniences in disabled patients’ daily lives and use hospital treatment more conveniently.”



CEO Lee Won-il of KANAK said, “By first introducing the Handit service to a dental hospital for the disabled, we have achieved the ultimate goal of the service, which is ‘a convenient payment life for everyone,’” and expressed his aspirations and expectations, saying, “Starting with this opportunity, we will continue to expand our services, including the hospital market, by providing a more satisfactory payment environment.”



Handit is a biometric authentication and payment solution that uses the vein information in the palm for authentication and payment. In the future, we plan to maximize the accessibility and convenience of treatment for disabled patients by linking the Handit service so that everything from treatment reception to payment can be done with a single palm scan.



Meanwhile, palm vein is a biometric authentication method that has the advantage of being able to be used ‘for life’ by anyone over the age of 14, unlike other biometric methods that are becoming increasingly difficult to use due to external factors such as the environment/growth, and is highly secure. Since identity verification and payment services can be used with just the palm, it is expected to be helpful in practicing ESG management as it can be used without issuing a physical card. Global conglomerates such as Amazon Go (Amazon Group), WeChat Pay (Tencent Group), and Alipay (Alibaba Group) are also actively promoting commercialization.

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