Borabite Operator Banko Joins Consortium for Bio Health Platform 'HealthBus'

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Jae-hee] Kang Dae-gu, CEO of Banko, which operates the virtual asset exchange Borabit, announced on the 9th at President Yoon Seok-yeol's inauguration banquet that he will participate in the 'Health-verse' project, a bio-health platform combining the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Health-verse is a coined term created by Softech Corporation by combining Health and Metaverse. Beyond the metaverse's meaning as a "virtual space pursuing play and fun," it is a new blockchain platform business project with the ambition to create a healthcare virtual space that protects and enhances actual human health.

Softech Corporation formed the 'Health-verse' consortium and established a collaborative system with Medic Bio NK, a company specializing in immune oncology drug research and development, Careplus, and Banko, a metaverse and NFT development company.

Kang Dae-gu, CEO of Banko, stated, "'Health-verse' project is rapidly building a healthcare ecosystem by integrating the metaverse and NFT technologies that Banko has developed so far, and plans to provide various services through collaboration with the main organizer Softech Korea and promising companies."

Softech Corporation also said, "The need for the introduction of virtual reality in the healthcare field is increasing," adding, "We will actively promote the metaverse-bio linkage business and create a new concept virtual medical space responsible for people's health in the future."