XpertINC

XpertINC is the Seoul hardware-and-software company behind the subtitle-glasses system now showing up inside Korea's live-performance economy. Its Owl product matters because it is not pitched as vague future tech. It is already being used inside the Smart Theater push to help non-Korean speakers and hearing-impaired audiences follow dialogue in real time.

The company's own site positions XpertINC around AI smart glasses, real-time subtitle products, and business communication tools, while recent reporting from The Korea Times places the brand directly inside commercial theater use. In that coverage, the glasses were operating at Charlotte Theater during Kinky Boots, with XpertINC claiming 98 percent speech-recognition accuracy and sub-0.3-second conversion speed.

That matters for more than accessibility optics. As companies like CJ ENM keep pushing Korean stage productions toward broader international audiences, XpertINC becomes part of the infrastructure layer that makes those exports easier to understand without pulling viewers out of the performance. It is one of the clearest cases of Korean tech being folded directly into the premium musical-theater experience.