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e-Smart Technologies delivers its new smart card on second contract in South Korea

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

e-Smart Technologies Inc. has delivered the company’s Super Smart Card, the “I AM” to Hansun Information System Co. Ltd., in South Korea. Hansun Information System Co., focuses on Value Added Network sales and management, specializing in credit card monitoring and EFT-POS terminals.

e-Smart Technologies Inc. is the exclusive supplier of the Biometric Verification Security System, the “I AM” card and the Super Smart Card system and related system technologies for Asia, Africa and the U.S., which e-Smart believes to be the world’s first smart card of its kind with an on-card sensor and a full match on-card system and other unique technologies for secure biometric ID verification. [end] 

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