Generative AI startup 42Maru (CEO Dong-Hwan Kim) announced that it won the Minister of Science and ICT Award at the '2nd AI·SW Company ESG Management Awards' at the '2025 KOSA Member Year-End Party' held at Plenty Convention in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the 17th.
The "AI·SW Company ESG Management Awards" were established to assess the ESG management status of domestic software companies, identify companies with outstanding ESG practices, and promote a culture of sustainable management across the industry. This evaluation was based on the results of the "AI·SW Company Specialized ESG Management Diagnosis," which addressed global supply chain issues.
Forty2Maru received evaluations exceeding industry standards across all areas: Environment (E), Society (S), and Governance (G), achieving particularly high scores in the governance category. To ensure AI ethics and reliability, the company established and operates an official AI Ethics Committee and has established a data security and privacy protection system throughout the entire process, from AI model training to operation. Furthermore, it introduced explainable AI (XAI) standards to ensure transparency in AI judgment results.
In the social sector, we provide stable employment by hiring all employees as full-time employees and operate a free Q&A chatbot service for public purposes, including COVID-19 response, year-end tax settlement, and comprehensive income tax. In the environmental sector, we contribute to reducing carbon emissions by implementing a paperless office through our own developed solutions and providing lightweight CPU-based models of our GPU-based AI solutions.
With this award, FortiTumaru has been recognized as an exemplary ESG management practice, demonstrating sustainable business operations and a transparent decision-making structure as an AI technology company.
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