Helping Advance Industry Collaboration, Innovation and the Future of Global Supply Chains
SEOUL, South Korea and TEANECK, N.J., Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LX Pantos Americas is proud to announce its Regional Sponsorship and participation in the VMA26 International Trade Symposium, a premier industry event that brings together business leaders, innovators and supply chain professionals to explore the trends, challenges and opportunities shaping the future of global trade and maritime commerce. The event will take place October 13-15 at the Hilton Norfolk The Main in Norfolk, Virginia.
LX Pantos Americas' participation in VMA26 reflects the company's deep commitment to maritime transportation and growing investment in Virginia as a strategic gateway for global trade. The company has strengthened its presence in the Commonwealth through recent Memorandums of Understanding with The Port of Virginia and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP), reinforcing a shared focus on trade growth, supply chain innovation and economic development. These relationships position LX Pantos Americas to support customers with enhanced connectivity and logistics solutions while contributing to Virginia's role as a leading hub for international commerce.
As economic ties between the United States and Korea continue to expand, LX Pantos Americas is closely aligned with the opportunities emerging from increased Korean investment across North American manufacturing, infrastructure and transportation networks. The company is actively evaluating opportunities related to the anticipated $150 billion shipbuilding collaboration initiative between the U.S. and Korea and the broader supply chain ecosystem it is expected to support. LX Pantos Americas will host a private executive roundtable during VMA26, bringing together business and supply chain leaders to explore how strategic investment, collaboration and resilient infrastructure can be leveraged to create long-term competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.
LX Pantos Americas CEO David Bang will participate in Late Night Freight on Thursday, October 15, at 11:15 a.m. with host Eric Jehu, VP, Logistics for the VEDP, where he provides primary staff leadership for developing and implementing strategies to promote employment growth within Virginia's logistics industry. The session will bring together leaders from the legal, pharmaceutical and logistics sectors to discuss the policy, infrastructure and investment priorities shaping the future of supply chains. Bang will share LX Pantos Americas' "supply chain forward" perspective, emphasizing the importance of collaboration, strategic investment and policy alignment in building resilient supply chains and supporting sustainable industry growth.
Reflecting its commitment to fostering future industry talent, LX Pantos Americas will sponsor a student's participation in VMA26 and welcome a student guest to its sponsored table at the Maritime Banquet, helping connect emerging professionals with industry leaders while supporting the next generation of maritime, logistics and international trade talent.
"Virginia continues to play an increasingly important role in global trade, making VMA26 an ideal forum to discuss the opportunities created by growing investment and collaboration across the supply chain ecosystem," said David Bang, CEO of LX Pantos Americas. "As economic ties between the United States and Korea deepen, we see significant potential to strengthen maritime transportation, infrastructure and logistics networks. Through our partnerships in Virginia and engagement with industry leaders at VMA26, we look forward to contributing to conversations that help transform investment into long-term economic growth and supply chain resilience."
LX Pantos Americas is the Americas regional organization of LX Pantos, a leadingglobal logistics company. With operations spanning across North and South America, LX Pantos Americas combines global scale and standards with deep regional expertise and local execution excellence. The company delivers optimized, end-to-end logistics solutions tailored to support business growth across a wide range of industries, while actively contributing to the communities it serves. LX Pantos Americas brings customers closer to their end markets faster, through all modes of transportation and contract logistics capabilities, including last mile delivery and installation services offered through InstallX, leveraging deep expertise and advanced technical knowledge. The company's StarLinks service provides reliable and competitive ground transportation solutions across North America powered by its partners and BoxLinks – an innovative joint venture with a major ocean shipping line – enhancing intermodal transport solutions. Driven by a strong dedication to service excellence and client success, LX Pantos Americas helps customers move forward with confidence. Learn more about LX Pantos Americas online and follow it on LinkedIn.
Established in 1977, LX Pantos is a leading global logistics provider headquartered in Korea. It delivers comprehensive logistics solutions across sea, air, rail, and contract logistics through a worldwide network spanning more than 40 countries.
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LX Pantos Americas Strengthens Commitment to Virginia's Growing Role in Global Trade Through VMA26 Sponsorship
- AiR NOVA answers K-12 students' science questions using more than 100,000 articles written by DongA Science's own journalists, showing the source article behind each answer.
- Launching in January 2027 on web, iOS and Android in Korean, English, Vietnamese and Spanish.
AiR NOVA's Tutor answers a question about a newly named Korean dinosaur and shows the source article behind the answer. Background imagery is AI-generated.
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DongA Science, a South Korean science media company that has published science magazines since 1986, has built an AI tutor on its own journalism. AiR NOVA, which answers students' science questions from the company's archive and shows the source article behind each answer, has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in the EdTech category, the company announced today.
Brand video introducing AiR NOVA’s three AI functions for science inquiry: Tutor, Socrates and Coach. (Visuals and music are AI-generated.)
As news publishers around the world weigh how their reporting should be used by AI, DongA Science took a different route by turning its archive into an exclusive learning product. Rather than drawing on the open web, AiR NOVA sources its answers from more than 100,000 articles reported and verified by the company's science journalists over the past 40 years. This archive spans its magazine archive and daily science news, allowing students to verify where each answer originated. Furthermore, students using AiR NOVA in English, Vietnamese or Spanish receive answers in their selected language, alongside the translated source article from the Korean original.
To learn more about AiR NOVA's CES 2027 recognition and explore its AI-driven educational features, visit nova.dongascience.com/intro or watch the introductory video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EsRqmuASQ.
Three Ways to Keep Students Asking
AiR NOVA is designed for K-12 students and integrates three core AI functions into a single app:
- Tutor answers questions with verified sources. For instance, if a student asks, "Are new dinosaurs still being discovered?" Tutor explains at their grade level how the Doolysaurus was named in 2026 as Korea's third new dinosaur species, and then displays the reference article.
- Socrates is a patent-pending Socratic-dialogue mode that replies with guiding questions instead of direct answers, encouraging students to reason their way to an explanation in their own words. Students can also upload their inquiry reports, prompting Socrates to ask questions that walk them back through their conclusion process.
- Coach sustains the inquiry process beyond the initial answer. Students work through missions tied to specific articles, which involve predicting, asking questions, checking sources, explaining and reflecting.
In the Classroom
Teachers can utilize Coach to structure lessons around articles that match their curriculum, build worksheets and missions, and track each student's participation and results via comprehensive reports. This significantly reduces the time required to prepare inquiry-based lessons.
At launch, AiR NOVA's science and math content will align with South Korea's national curriculum, the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), Cambridge International and the International Baccalaureate (IB). AiR NOVA will be available in January 2027 on web, iOS and Android platforms, requiring no dedicated device. Pricing details will be announced at a later date.
Built on a Proven Service in South Korean Schools
AiR NOVA is the global edition of DongA Science AiR, the company's established AI science inquiry service in South Korea. The school edition, DongA Science AiR edu, is currently utilized by more than 20,000 students across 170 schools, who collectively complete an average of 5,000 inquiry activities per month. DongA Science developed AiR NOVA based on this extensive operational experience and direct feedback from educators, including practicing teachers collaborating through a classroom problem-solving project run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a South Korean public agency.
The Korean service was honored with the Minister of Science and ICT Award at the 2024 Digital Service Frontier Awards, while its school edition received the Minister of Education Award at the 2026 K-EduTech Contest.
Showcasing at CES 2027
AiR NOVA will be featured in the Korea Pavilion at CES 2027, taking place Jan. 6-9, 2027, in Las Vegas. During the event, DongA Science plans to connect with global education institutions and edtech companies.
"This CES Innovation Awards honor reflects our long-standing effort to combine the science content we have built up over many years with AI technology to solve real problems in education," said Kyung-ae Jang, CEO of DongA Science. "We want students around the world to start from a small spark of curiosity and discover the joy of inquiry with AiR NOVA, and we want teachers to be able to design inquiry lessons without the extra burden."
The CES Innovation Awards program, produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), honors outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.
About DongA Science
DongA Science is a leading South Korean science media company that connects science journalism with AI technology to broaden how people learn. Starting with its flagship magazine, Science DongA, launched in 1986, it publishes science and math magazines for children and teens and, together with its daily science news, has built an archive of more than 100,000 science articles over 40 years. Content reported and verified by its science journalists is the foundation for building trustworthy AI education products. On that foundation, the company operates the AI science inquiry service DongA Science AiR in South Korea and will launch its global edition, AiR NOVA, in January 2027.
Website: www.dongascience.com/en
About AiR NOVA: nova.dongascience.com/intro
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EsRqmuASQ
CES® is a registered trademark of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®.
AiR NOVA's Tutor answers a question about a newly named Korean dinosaur and shows the source article behind the answer. Background imagery is AI-generated.
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DongA Science, a South Korean science media company that has published science magazines since 1986, has built an AI tutor on its own journalism. AiR NOVA, which answers students' science questions from the company's archive and shows the source article behind each answer, has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in the EdTech category, the company announced today.
Brand video introducing AiR NOVA’s three AI functions for science inquiry: Tutor, Socrates and Coach. (Visuals and music are AI-generated.)
As news publishers around the world weigh how their reporting should be used by AI, DongA Science took a different route by turning its archive into an exclusive learning product. Rather than drawing on the open web, AiR NOVA sources its answers from more than 100,000 articles reported and verified by the company's science journalists over the past 40 years. This archive spans its magazine archive and daily science news, allowing students to verify where each answer originated. Furthermore, students using AiR NOVA in English, Vietnamese or Spanish receive answers in their selected language, alongside the translated source article from the Korean original.
To learn more about AiR NOVA's CES 2027 recognition and explore its AI-driven educational features, visit nova.dongascience.com/intro or watch the introductory video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EsRqmuASQ.
Three Ways to Keep Students Asking
AiR NOVA is designed for K-12 students and integrates three core AI functions into a single app:
- Tutor answers questions with verified sources. For instance, if a student asks, "Are new dinosaurs still being discovered?" Tutor explains at their grade level how the Doolysaurus was named in 2026 as Korea's third new dinosaur species, and then displays the reference article.
- Socrates is a patent-pending Socratic-dialogue mode that replies with guiding questions instead of direct answers, encouraging students to reason their way to an explanation in their own words. Students can also upload their inquiry reports, prompting Socrates to ask questions that walk them back through their conclusion process.
- Coach sustains the inquiry process beyond the initial answer. Students work through missions tied to specific articles, which involve predicting, asking questions, checking sources, explaining and reflecting.
In the Classroom
Teachers can utilize Coach to structure lessons around articles that match their curriculum, build worksheets and missions, and track each student's participation and results via comprehensive reports. This significantly reduces the time required to prepare inquiry-based lessons.
At launch, AiR NOVA's science and math content will align with South Korea's national curriculum, the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), Cambridge International and the International Baccalaureate (IB). AiR NOVA will be available in January 2027 on web, iOS and Android platforms, requiring no dedicated device. Pricing details will be announced at a later date.
Built on a Proven Service in South Korean Schools
AiR NOVA is the global edition of DongA Science AiR, the company's established AI science inquiry service in South Korea. The school edition, DongA Science AiR edu, is currently utilized by more than 20,000 students across 170 schools, who collectively complete an average of 5,000 inquiry activities per month. DongA Science developed AiR NOVA based on this extensive operational experience and direct feedback from educators, including practicing teachers collaborating through a classroom problem-solving project run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a South Korean public agency.
The Korean service was honored with the Minister of Science and ICT Award at the 2024 Digital Service Frontier Awards, while its school edition received the Minister of Education Award at the 2026 K-EduTech Contest.
Showcasing at CES 2027
AiR NOVA will be featured in the Korea Pavilion at CES 2027, taking place Jan. 6-9, 2027, in Las Vegas. During the event, DongA Science plans to connect with global education institutions and edtech companies.
"This CES Innovation Awards honor reflects our long-standing effort to combine the science content we have built up over many years with AI technology to solve real problems in education," said Kyung-ae Jang, CEO of DongA Science. "We want students around the world to start from a small spark of curiosity and discover the joy of inquiry with AiR NOVA, and we want teachers to be able to design inquiry lessons without the extra burden."
The CES Innovation Awards program, produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), honors outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.
About DongA Science
DongA Science is a leading South Korean science media company that connects science journalism with AI technology to broaden how people learn. Starting with its flagship magazine, Science DongA, launched in 1986, it publishes science and math magazines for children and teens and, together with its daily science news, has built an archive of more than 100,000 science articles over 40 years. Content reported and verified by its science journalists is the foundation for building trustworthy AI education products. On that foundation, the company operates the AI science inquiry service DongA Science AiR in South Korea and will launch its global edition, AiR NOVA, in January 2027.
Website: www.dongascience.com/en
About AiR NOVA: nova.dongascience.com/intro
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EsRqmuASQ
CES® is a registered trademark of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®.
** This press release is distributed by PR Newswire through automated distribution system, for which the client assumes full responsibility. **
DongA Science turns 40 years of science journalism into AI tutor AiR NOVA, a CES 2027 honoree
