“I believe that blockchain will be the second Internet that will change the planet in the next 10 years, just like the Internet has changed the world over the past 20 years, and that Metaverse will change the daily life of mankind like new services, businesses, and apps created on the Internet. I think it will be a technology and a service.”
On the 16th, Su-gil Seo, CEO of Afreeca TV, announced that Afreeca TV and blockchain technology would be combined to become a ‘metaverse platform’ company.
On this day, Afreeca TV switched from the representative system of Su-gil Seo and Chan-yong Jeong to the system of sole representative of Chan-yong Jeong. CEO Su-gil Seo resigned from the position he had held for the past 10 years and moved to the position of Chief BJ Officer (CBO). This is to focus on new businesses such as ΔBlockchain ΔNFT ΔMetaverse, which are attracting attention as future food businesses.
In a letter to shareholders, former CEO Seo said, “Afreeca TV has achieved annual sales and operating profit growth of more than 30% on average for 10 years. I will post the words of ”he said.
He continued, “Since I made Afreeca TV as a platform 10 years ago, my vision has been to connect 7 billion people live. and are beginning to be applied to other industries.”
He continued, “However, the changes in the next 10 years are expected to be more numerous and faster than the changes in the technological and cultural industries of the past decade. It has to be something that creates an economic ecosystem for the platform,” he said.
Former CEO Seo emphasized that new technologies such as blockchain and metaverse will become the ‘second Internet’ that will change the world over the next 10 years.
He said, “I think that blockchain will become the second Internet that will change the planet in the next 10 years, just like the Internet has changed the world over the past 20 years.” It will become a technology and service that will change our daily life.”
“Afreeca TV should also become a platform that grows quantitatively and qualitatively by using blockchain technology to expand its platform and create new businesses,” he said.
On the 3rd of last month, Afreeca TV launched ‘Africa Token Market’ (AFT Market), an NFT (non-fungible token) content trading platform that applied blockchain technology. AFT Market is a platform where you can trade highlights of popular BJs and 3D avatars with NFT.
At the same time, on the 24th of next month, Afreeca TV is preparing to release the metaverse platform ‘Freeblocks’. Freeblocks is a metaverse platform where participants can freely communicate in real time through ‘avatar’ and engage in various economic activities such as games, shopping, live streaming, and real estate transactions.
CEO Seo said, “Freeblocks will become a world where individuals and users live as subjects of the economic ecosystem, and it will become an ecosystem where users make money, not just BJs and influencers.” We will continue to apply our technology and business.”
In addition, “For the next 10 years, I am resigning as Chief BJ officer (CBO) from today and today, 10 years after,” he said. “R&D, new business development, direct communication with users. You will be working in these three areas,” he said.
