On November 14, 2026, gluee was selected for the Excellence Award at Art Korea Lab’s AI × Technology Convergence Open Innovation program for ‘THE BOARD : Excavation Squad’, its Open Innovation project.

gluee is one of the companies selected for Art Korea Lab’s 2026 AI × Technology Convergence Open Innovation program, and ran a ‘THE BOARD : Excavation Squad’ experience booth at the 2026 Art Korea Lab AI Convergence Festival, held November 4–8.

At the booth, generative AI created a character from each visitor’s face, and the character was printed on an NFC squad card handed to the visitor. Visitors tagged their cards to play seven Excavation Squad mini-games alongside their own characters.

Excavation Squad ran for 12 days at Hyundai Department Store Mia in August 2026, welcoming about 1,800 visitors, and its nine mini-games won the Gold Prize at the 7th Public Works Use Case Contest.

gluee creates THE BOARD, a series of experiential exhibitions that add immersive technology to the play structure of board games.