※This is a machine-translated text of the original article.

LINE Corporation and Diverse Inc of IBJ Group, announced that they would jointly establish HOP Corporation and enter the matching services business.

Diverse supports new forms of encounters with modern societies, such as “youbride” wedding services.

The newly established HOP Corporation names the “distance” between people as “HOP” and provides a new matching service to meet partners using the connection.

The company plans to use LINE security standards and AI-related technologies, such as image-certification and personalization, to ensure reliability and security, and to protect privacy.

The ratio of investments in new companies is 60% for LINE and 40% for Diverse.

The two companies will provide new opportunities for encounters that adapt to changes in values and styles, aiming for services that users can use with peace of mind from a variety of perspectives, such as strengthening personal identification to prevent spoofing and thorough patrols and monitoring, based on LINE’s high-security technologies, the user base of 83 million domestic users, and the know-how that Diverse has cultivated.

Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/03/05/line-47/