Daedong Aegtech

About Daedong Aegtech

Daedong Aegtech is the future agriculture platform and solutions company of the Daedong Group, a South Korean agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1947. Established in February 2022, Daedong Aegtech was created as a joint venture with Hyundai AutoEver to spearhead the Daedong Group's strategic push into future agricultural technologies. The company is led by CEO Won Youhyun, who also serves as the CEO of Daedong and Daedong Mobility. His background includes a George Washington University MBA and strategic roles at Samsung C&T and KT Corporation before joining Daedong in 2019 to blueprint its future business divisions.

Daedong Aegtech focuses on transforming traditional agriculture through the integration of artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and big data platforms. The firm's business is structured around three main pillars: precision agriculture, smart farming, and Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO). It aims to provide comprehensive solutions that cover the entire agricultural cycle, from soil analysis and growth monitoring to harvesting. A key service includes a smart agriculture platform that utilizes ICT and AI to maximize crop productivity through precision farming solutions, agricultural work robots, and autonomous agricultural machinery.

The company's offerings include connected solutions for remote vehicle diagnostics, automatic farming log recording, and AI-based early disaster alerts. For its precision agriculture services, Daedong Aegtech has collected extensive data, including approximately 500,000 orchard and field images and about 3 million driving videos, to develop an AI tractor and build a machine learning operations (MLOps) automation system. The company also offers a service for analyzing harvest yields using smart combines and has introduced an agriculture chatbot called 'AI Daedongi' based on a large language model (LLM). Beyond open-field farming, Daedong Aegtech is expanding into the greenhouse smart farming business, providing integrated solutions for AI-based greenhouse construction, crop cultivation, and operations.

In October 2025, just three years after its founding, the startup secured approximately USD 11 million (KRW 15 billion) in funding from investors including the Korea Development Bank (KDB) and Smilegate Investment. This capital is intended to accelerate the development of AI agricultural technologies and support direct participation in smart farm operations to gather more management data and enhance field technology verification.