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Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation [Abstract]  
NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

NOTE 1 — NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Business

 

Global Interactive Technologies, Inc. (“GITS”) is a corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, and in 2024, we acquired 100% ownership of our subsidiary, Faning Korea, LLC. We aim to become a leading company in the global Korean entertainment market, also known as “Hanryu” or “K-Culture,” through our fan-participation-based social media platform, FANING. The FANING platform is an all-in-one global playground where fans around the world can consume, create, and get rewarded for content related to their interests, and connect with other like-minded fans. 

 

Corporate History

 

Since the inception of Global Interactive Technologies, Inc in 2018, we have accomplished a number of key objectives, as follows:

 

Date   Event/Milestone
October 18, 2018   HBC is incorporated under the laws of the ROK with the idea of creating an all-in-one product to capture the growing global momentum and popularity of K-Culture.
     
October 29, 2020   HBC establishes FNS,and begins the initial stages of designing and implementing a platform that can create a fandom networking system.
     
March 11, 2021   HBC establishes Hanryu Times. Hanryu Times begins operations as HBC’s media outlet, reporting on and providing up-to-date K-Culture news within the FANTOO platform, across a number of languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese (simplified/traditional), Indonesian, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese.
     
March 31, 2021  

HBC consummates an agreement and plan of merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with RnDeep, Co. Ltd, a Korean corporation (“RnDeep”), pursuant to which RnDeep merged with and into HBC, with HBC continuing as the surviving corporation (the “RnDeep Acquisition”). As consideration for the RnDeep Acquisition, HBC ratably issued a total 4,150,000 HBC common shares, par value $0.45 per share (“Common Shares”), to the former shareholders of RnDeep.

 

As a result of the RnDeep Acquisition, HBC acquired the underlying technologies that the Company plans on utilizing in the future development of new functions and integrations within the FANTOO platform. Once the FANTOO platform is ready to integrate the technology acquired, this technology will support new functions and integrations including, without limitation, the Company’s enterprise resource planning solution, and its artificial intelligence (“AI”), which the Company plans on using to power many of FANTOO’s upcoming features such as speech synthesis, curated content delivery, deepfake detection and blocking, and nudity detection and blocking.

     
May 17, 2021   The FANTOO platform is launched and made available to the public.
     
June 30, 2021   HBC enters into an agreement to acquire all the issued and outstanding common shares of Marine Island (the “Marine Island Acquisition”), which owns the right to use and occupy 19,200 square-feet of office space within the iconic Seoul Marina, located at 160 Yeouiseo-ro, Yeungdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea (the “Seoul Marina”) from Sewang Co., Ltd. (“Sewang”), for the purchase price of 3,500,000,000 Korean Won (“KRW”), along with the assumption of all Marine Island’s liabilities.  
Date   Event/Milestone
August 30, 2021   HBC establishes FANTOO Entertainment. FANTOO Entertainment provides a variety of content to the Company’s FANTOO platform, which contributes to the spread of the Korean Wave by promoting new entertainers and artists.
     
October 3, 2021   HBC consummates the Marine Island Acquisition, making it the owner of 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Marine Island.
     
October 3, 2021  

HBC consummates a strategic acquisition of 50.8% of the outstanding common shares of K-Commerce. In consideration for the shares of K-Commerce, HBC forgave a short-term loan of $270,530 (KRW 309,600,000) owed to HBC by K-Commerce.

 

HBC’s investment into K-Commerce was a strategic acquisition in order to integrate K-Commerce’s retail platform, “SelloveLive” into the FANTOO ecosystem as the FANTOO Fanshop. When launched as the FANTOO Fanshop, K-Commerce’s platform will offer combined services of shopping and live broadcasting, allowing users to easily live-stream travel and share local attractions, local festivals, cultures, and news from around the world.

 

Prior to HBC’s acquisition of its shares in K-Commerce, K-Commerce was 100% owned by Changhyuk Kang, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Donghoon Park, the Company’s Chief Marketing Officer.

     
October 20, 2021   Hanryu Holdings is incorporated in the State of Delaware.
     
February 25, 2022 through May 10, 2022  

Hanryu Holdings, HBC, and the shareholders of HBC (the “HBC Shareholders”) enter into a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”), pursuant to which the HBC Shareholders agreed to assign, transfer, and deliver, free and clear of all liens, 100% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares, representing 100% of the voting securities in HBC, to the Company in exchange for the Company issuing 42,565,786 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) to the HBC Shareholders (the “Share Exchange”).

 

Concurrently with entering into the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company, HBC, and the holders (the “HBC Warrantholders”) of all outstanding warrants to purchase Common Shares (“HBC Warrants”) enter into a warrant exchange agreement, pursuant to which the HBC Warrantholders agreed to assign, transfer, and delivery, free and clear of any liens, 100% of the outstanding HBC Warrants to the Company in exchange for the Company issuing to the HBC Warrantholders 10,046,666 warrants to purchase restricted shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant Exchange”).

 

The Warrants and Common Shares of HBC transferred to the Company in the Share Exchange and the Warrant Exchange constituted 100% of the outstanding equity securities of HBC.

     
June 16, 2022


                                     
  Hanryu Holdings, HBC, the HBC Shareholders, and the HBC Warrantholders consummate the Share Exchange and Warrant Exchange concurrently, pursuant to which HBC became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and the HBC Stockholders and HBC Warrantholders, collectively, acquired a controlling interest in the Company.              
June 22, 2022   The Company divests itself of all Kingdom Coin (“KDC”) holdings and terminates all crypto-currency-related activity, including, without limitation, the operation of the MainNet (FandomChain) and the Kingdom Wallet, pursuant to a Business Transfer Agreement (the “Divestiture Agreement”) between HBC and an unaffiliated and unrelated third party, Kingdom Coin Holdings, a Cayman Islands Foundation Company (the “KDC Foundation”) (the “KDC Divestiture”), to substantially reduce its involvement with blockchain technologies. Pursuant to the Divestiture Agreement, as of June 22, 2022, the Company no longer owns any KDC, and no longer conducts or controls the operations, issuances, or sales of KDC. In connection with the KDC Divestiture, the Company revised its procedures regarding FP and no longer allows, nor has the technology to allow, for the transfer of FP outside of the FANTOO platform or the exchange of FP and KDC
     
August 1, 2023   The shares of the Company are listed at NASDAQ exchange market.
     
December 28, 2023   HBC sold owned whole shares of Hanryu Times, Fantoo Entertainment, and K-Commerce, so the business from the three companies became the discontinued operations.
     
November 5, 2024   HBC sold its 100% ownership interests in its subsidiaries, FNS Co., Ltd. and Marine Island Co., Ltd., in order to improve its financial structure.
     
December 4, 2024   We acquired 100% ownership of Faning Korea, LLC to pursue a new business aimed at improving profitability.
     
December 28, 2024   We sold 100% of our ownership interest in Hanryu Bank Co., Ltd. (“HBC”), our wholly owned subsidiary, to improve our financial structure.

Risks and Uncertainties

 

The Company is subject to a number of risks similar to other companies in its industries, including rapid technological change and transitions in Hanryu trends. The extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business continues to be highly uncertain and difficult to predict, as the responses that the Company, other businesses and governments are taking continue to evolve. Furthermore, capital markets and economies worldwide have also been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is possible that it could cause a lasting national and/or global economic recession. Policymakers around the globe have responded with fiscal policy actions to support the entertainment industry and economy as a whole.

 

To date, the Company has experienced significant changes in the business as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact has delayed the Company’s ability to generate revenue as result of the diversification of potential customer budgets towards the COVID-19 pandemic. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may in the future materially impact the Company’s financial condition, liquidity or results of operations is uncertain.

 

Going Concern

 

The Company had an accumulated deficit of $37,901,301 and working capital of $(665,352) as of December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2023, the accumulated deficit was $38,893,762 and working capital was $(2,927,886). Also, the Company has operating losses of $888,363 and $2,005,925 for the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. These uncertainties raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for after the issuance date of these financial statements. The accompanying financial statements have been prepared under the assumption that we will continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result from the possible inability of us to continue as a going concern.

 

The Company is soon to launch the upgraded FANING2 version. The upgraded FANING2 version has been restructured with a user-centric approach and is designed to create a platform focused on ensuring profitability. Additionally, through its subsidiary, Faning Korea, LLC, the Company plans to pursue K-Food products and entertainment business ventures. Furthermore, to secure additional operating capital, the Company intends to proceed with a capital increase and borrowings. However, there can be no assurance as to the outcome of these factors or that future funding efforts will generate sufficient capital to maintain our operations.