The government will provide a package of computing resources, data, and experts tailored to ministry needs to accelerate artificial intelligence transition (AX) in the public sector. It plans to expand AI use across all industries, including manufacturing, defense, health care, agriculture, fisheries, and maritime, beyond the public sector.
On the 28th at Government Complex Seoul, the government, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Bae Kyung-hoon of the Ministry of Science and ICT, held the 4th Meeting of Ministers Related to Science and Technology and finalized a pan-government strategy to promote AI transition. This year's AI transition budget to be injected into 33 ministries, agencies, and commissions amounts to 2.4 trillion won, five times last year's.
Centering on the Meeting of Ministers Related to Science and Technology, the government will establish a pan-government AX collaboration system to organically link inter-ministerial AI transition projects with government-held resources, policy capabilities, and private-sector expertise. To that end, it will prepare a "one-stop support plan for the full cycle of government AX projects" and provide customized resources needed by each ministry, such as graphics processing units (GPUs), AI models, datasets, evaluation and verification, and advisory panels.
In particular, it will select core AX projects with high impact at the planning stage and concentrate available resources such as GPUs, and provide technical consulting so that the independent AI foundation model project under development as a national project can be used in public projects. It will also prepare an "AX guidelines" document containing AX success cases by sector, key considerations, and information on major domestic corporations and products by technology area to support ministries' project execution.
A plan was also presented to use regions as test beds for advanced AI technologies. The government will create a tentative "AI specialized zone" that aggregates and provides outcomes generated through individual projects to drive region-based AI innovation and industrial diffusion.
The meeting also reported a "plan to expand the use of public works for AI training" to allow freer use of public works for AI learning. It will revise the Public Domain Open License standard (Korea Open Government License) to resolve legal uncertainty and newly establish "Type 0," which allows free use without conditions, and "AI Type," which allows free use solely for AI training purposes. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Science and ICT will consider incentives by reflecting efforts to open public works in public institution evaluations and will also push to mandate Korea Open Government License labeling through amendments to the Copyright Act.
In addition, starting with this meeting, the government introduced a focused discussion format to strengthen in-depth deliberations on major issues in science, technology, and AI and matters requiring cross-ministerial cooperation. On this day, discussions were held on the "direction for establishing the 2nd mid- to long-term national R&D investment strategy," which is scheduled to be established in the first half. The strategy is built on three pillars—technology-led growth, growth for all, and a society with strong fundamentals—with mission-oriented R&D and full-cycle investment and the pooling of government and private-sector capabilities at its core.
Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said, "Centering on the Meeting of Ministers Related to Science and Technology, we will bring together Korea's AI, semiconductor, and manufacturing competitiveness as one to accelerate the creation of AI-based strategic R&D outcomes."