The government plans to announce the "2045 national strategy" within this year. Priority tasks in the strategy include strengthening stability in power supply and demand, securing competitiveness in artificial intelligence (AI), and establishing security sovereignty in strategic technologies.
The government said that on the 12th, it held the second meeting of the Korea 2045 Strategy Establishment Committee at Government Complex Seoul in Jongno-gu, Seoul, chaired by Prime Minister Han Seong-sook, and discussed public outreach progress and the 2045 future vision.
That day, the public communication group reported the results of a Delphi survey of 39 experts. A total of 17 tasks were judged to be both highly important in the mid-to-long term and urgent.
Specifically: ▲ securing AI competitiveness and supporting its diffusion ▲ strengthening stability in power supply and demand ▲ establishing security sovereignty in strategic technologies ▲ discovering and fostering future new growth engines ▲ reforming pensions, welfare, and care tailored to an aging society ▲ overhauling the industrial workforce development system ▲ strategic fiscal investment ▲ innovation in regulation and administration friendly to new technologies ▲ eliminating inefficiencies in the fiscal structure ▲ strengthening utilization of human resources among women, middle-aged, and older adults ▲ overhauling education, defense, and industrial systems to respond to population decline ▲ laying the foundation for creating quality jobs ▲ strengthening the export base and supply chains ▲ strengthening the revenue base ▲ supporting capacity-building for jobs in preparation for the AI transformation (AX) ▲ building a response system to new security threats ▲ expanding entry opportunities for youth employment.
The National Future Strategy Research Committee of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences proposed "an innovative leading nation" as the 2045 future vision. The committee diagnosed that Korea is in a "dual bottleneck" state, combining "high input, low conversion," in which the country fails to turn world-class technological capabilities into outcomes, and "high capability, low legitimacy," in which the foundation for social consensus is weak. It then presented two pillars: an innovation transition that combines the three mega-projects—semiconductors, AI data centers, and physical AI—with balanced national development under a five hubs, three special zones model, and a social transition to build a new social operating system beyond the welfare state.
Prime Minister Han said, "The 2045 national development strategy must be a strategy pursued by all people together, not only by the government." The government plans to continue formulating the strategy with the goal of announcing it within the year.