Sunguk Hong
CEO & President · Co-founder
Business management across IT and manufacturing, with a research background in mechanical engineering, design and manufacturing. Former CEO of BLHAT Inc. and JaooNet Co., Ltd.
About DeepVelo
Advancing humanity means coexisting with nature — not choosing.
DeepVelo Inc. is a South Korean research and product development company working across agriculture, desalination, cosmetics and eco-friendly energy — now building its presence in the United States.
Our story
A company built around one stubborn idea.
DeepVelo was founded on the conviction that the hard problems — food security, water scarcity, clean energy — already have working solutions in the natural world. The engineering task is not to invent past nature. It is to understand the mechanism well enough to build with it.
That conviction shapes what we refuse as much as what we pursue. We rule out GMOs and chemical fertilizers not as marketing positioning, but because a solution that creates a new environmental cost has not actually solved anything.
Today that work spans four research fields, one commercialized product line operating on farms in four countries, and a team drawn from mechanical engineering, plant science, medicine, finance and global marketing.
100+
farms operating with our agriculture systems
4
countries: United States, Korea, Taiwan, Türkiye
4
active research fields under one method
+30%
average yield increase in accredited testing*
*Based on controlled tests with certification from accredited testing agencies. Results may vary by farm conditions, climate and implementation. Replace any figure you cannot document — US buyers will ask for the certificate.
Leadership
The bench behind the research.
Six leaders across engineering, plant science, medicine, finance and global marketing.
Sukhwan An
Vice President
Over 30 years in management, finance, sales and marketing, in senior roles at publicly listed Korean companies. Former VP at Genians and CFO at Oullim.
Hyunil Lee
CTO · Co-founder
25+ years in product R&D, now responsible for development across the full DeepVelo product line. Former senior researcher at Bellwave and Nokia; adjunct professor at Inha University.
Samuel Byeongjun Park
R&D Director
Ph.D. in electronics, telecommunications and radio engineering. Expert in mechanical, electrical and electronic product design, with extensive experience in medical and surgical robotics.
Thomas Goodwin
Marketing Manager · Co-founder
Leads the US market effort. Experience at Qualtrics working with US government agencies, universities and Canadian enterprises; co-founder and CMO of Alaska Current Seafoods.
Soocheul Yoo
Advisor · Co-founder
Professor of plant science at Hankyong National University; leads agricultural research and product development at DeepVelo.
Our brands
zoecore.com →
ZOECORE is a DeepVelo brand.
Our agriculture research line, commercialized as an irrigation treatment system for working farms.