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CES, the world's largest expo for consumer electronics and information and communications technology, runs from Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas. Shown is Home AI, the promotional booth of Samsung Electronics for artificial intelligence and user-customized housing solutions based on the company's SmartThings platform. (Samsung Electronics)

By Lee Dasom

The country has been named a Global Innovation Champion at this year's CES, the world's largest expo for consumer electronics and information and communications technology.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Jan. 8 said the U.S.-based Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which hosts CES, announced the evaluation rankings of the technological innovation capacities of 75 countries divided in four groups.

Korea was moved up to the Innovation Champions classification, the highest designation, from the Innovation Leader class last year.

The nation won high CTA recognition in 15 categories such as "encouragement of global tech trade, allowance of cross-border data flow, startup and small business friendliness, pro-innovation legal environment, and digital transparency," the ministry said in a news release.

Other Innovation Champions included the U.S, U.K. Japan, France and Germany.

Since 2018, the CTA has assessed the technical innovation capacity of each country and calculated its global innovation performance index for announcement during CES.

This year's CES from Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas has 4,300 companies from 160 countries participating.

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