The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on Feb. 19 that it will newly designate the fields of bio, advanced robotics, and artificial intelligence as priority examination targets following the fields of semiconductors, displays, and secondary batteries, and will also redesignate the field of secondary batteries by expanding the scope of application. The prioritized examination of carbon-neutral green technologies will also be expanded to include national strategic technologies and renewable energy fields in addition to the existing carbon dioxide capture technology. The prioritized ex
Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, announced on March 27 that it has started a book-reading robot rental service utilizing AI (artificial intelligence) vision technology. The service is aimed at childcare institutions such as daycare centers, kindergartens, and community childcare centers in the district, and one robot and more than 50 exclusive books are rented for a month on a first-come, first-served basis. The reading robot (Luka) is equipped with a function that analyzes images and reads the story on the page while flipping through the book, and can also sing songs and play simple games. It is expected
Currently, Korea is ranked 6th in the world in the national AI rankings, but in detail, while it is highly evaluated in items such as 'development' (3rd) and 'infrastructure' (6th), it is low in 'talent' (13th), 'research' (13th), and 'venture investment' (12th), so strategic support is needed, such as organizing a catch-up group to develop open AI or deep-seek AI technology. (2024 Global AI Index (GAII)) : The GAII, published by Tortus Media in the UK, is the leading index cited when comparing national AI capabilities. In last year's report, which included 83 countries, Korea was ranked 6th i
On February 28, Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yeol appointed the members of the fourth Advisory Committee on Economic Security and Diplomacy, comprised of 16 industry, academia, and experts in various fields, including customs, semiconductors, energy, and key minerals, who will serve for the next two years. Minister Cho Tae-yeol emphasized the severe situation of increasing uncertainty in the economic, security, and diplomatic environment and asked the advisory board members to make generous policy recommendations. Following the appointment ceremony, the first meeting of the 2025 Advisor
Statistics Korea will launch the 'Economic Situation Board' and 'National Life Outlook', statistical visualization contents that allow anyone to experience statistics in an easy and fun way, on February 24 through KOSIS. Kobot 1.5, an advanced statistical chatbot, will also be piloted for public evaluators from February 28th. Statistics Korea provides statistical visualization contents on various topics every year to make statistics more accessible and useful to the public and expand the use of statistics. This year, we have developed useful and interesting contents under the themes of 'Econom
On the 28th, the Chungcheongbuk-do Office of Education announced that it will introduce and utilize AI digital textbooks (AIDT) in 245 elementary, middle, and high schools in the province from the new school year of 2025. The schools that will use AIDT are 245 out of 472 elementary, middle, and high schools in the province, or about 51.9 percent. The Chungbuk Provincial Office of Education will be introduced to math, English, and information courses in grades 3 and 4 of elementary schools, grades 1 and 2 of middle schools, and grades 1 and 2 of high schools from the 2025 school year, and schoo
Gyeonggi-do Governor Kim Dong-yeon said, “Let's make Gyeonggi-do a startup paradise,” pledging to create more than 20 unicorn companies in five years. On the 26th, Gyeonggi-do held the inauguration ceremony of the Gyeonggi-do Startup Council at the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center International Conference Hall in Pangyo. This is the first time a Gyeonggi-do-level startup council has been launched. More than 600 startup officials attended the event, where the council was declared inaugurated and 11 executives were presented with certificates of appointment. “When I met with unicorn c
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on the 26th that it held the 'AI Super Gap Challenge Kick-off Day' event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul to promote the commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) startups through demand-based collaboration between global giants such as LG Electronics and Qualcomm and promising AI startups in Korea. Recently, the emergence of China's Deepseek, which launched a low-cost and high-performance large-scale language model (LLM model) in the global market, has intensified the competition for hegemony in AI technology between the United States and
The visit was attended by Belmont Superintendent Jill Geiser, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers, and Principal Isaac Taylor. Lim toured the school with about 10 Korean students from Belmont High School and observed an anatomy class where students dissected a blue crab to learn about the structure of crustaceans, a math class where students used five dots to complete a graph, and an English class where students debated whether students should be allowed to do assignments via ChatGPT. The best feature of Belmont High School is that students can choose their own clas
Jeollanam-do signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Stanford Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Energy and Technology, and SFR-Stock Farm Road in San Francisco, USA, on the 26th (local time) to support the successful construction of the world's largest 15 trillion won ($15 billion) Solar City AI Supercluster Hub. The signing ceremony was attended by Kim Young-rok, Governor of South Jeolla Province; Amin Badr-El-Din, Co-Chair of Stock Farm Road; Michael Lepech, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Stanford University; and Park Jin-ho, Acting President of Korea Advanced Institute