포스트 코로나, '비접촉' 생체인식 산업 뜬다<br /><br />People are finding ways to get things done while minimizing unnecessary physical contact.<br />One main area that's been affected is shopping.<br />Biometric identification makes it so you can buy things just by showing your face.<br />Kim Sungmin reports.<br />To register, just go to your local bank and find the facial recognition kiosk.<br />You stand in front of a huge screen and enter your credit card information.<br />Then, the system maps your facial landmarks and stores them as data.<br />Once registered, you can pay for things at affiliated stores just by showing your face to a screen like this one.<br />As the payment service uses a non-contact biometric identification system... it will allow people to do their basic shopping while avoiding direct contact with other people.<br />"Normally, you have to exchange a physical card to pay, but I believe that the growth of non-contact culture because of COVID-19 will accelerate the development of biometric identification in our society."<br />It's not only the financial sector that's adopting the technology.<br />For building security systems, one major company has gone completely non-contact with some of their products, using facial recognition to replace fingerprints.<br />"Identification is key to non-contact services like online classes and online healthcare services. With Korea moving to get rid of the old system of 'public certificates' for those kinds of services, non-contact biometric identification, which is safer and more convenient, is expected to keep growing amid COVID-19."<br />The Korea Information Security Industry Association forecasts the domestic market for facial recognition systems to grow to around 1-hundred-21-million dollars this year.<br />And because mask-wearing has become the new norm since the virus outbreak, the industry is adapting to that too.<br />Some of the newer biometric systems can identify a person even with their mask on, and some are designed to verify only people wearing masks.<br />Kim Sung-min, Arirang News.<br />
