Ministry of Culture Unveils Winners of 'AI Utilization Contest for Cultural Administration Innovation'

Grand Prize: "Multi-Persona Work Assistant GPTs"

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has selected 13 cases of administrative work innovation and ideas that utilize artificial intelligence (AI).

The ministry announced on the 3rd that it had conducted the "AI Utilization Contest for Cultural Administration Innovation" from May 18 to July 12, targeting all employees of its headquarters and affiliated institutions. After an internal review, the ministry finalized its selections, awarding one grand prize, two excellence awards, and ten encouragement awards.

This contest was conducted in two categories: cases of work process improvement using AI and innovative ideas for cultural administration utilizing AI. A total of 65 cases and ideas were submitted.

The grand prize went to the "Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Multi-Persona Work Assistant GPTs." This case involved training customized GPTs with major administrative regulations, such as the "Improper Solicitation and Graft Act," government subsidies, personnel issues, budgets, and travel expenses, and assigning them roles such as "Integrity Assistant" and "Subsidy Assistant" to answer relevant questions. The evaluation highlighted the system’s ability to reduce the time required for employees to search for and interpret these regulations from several minutes to just a few seconds.

The excellence awards were given to the "Automated Registration Statement Generator for Museum and Art Gallery Collections" and "Big Data Analysis of Foreign Press Reports."

The "Automated Registration Statement Generator" is a system that allows users to upload files from the Cultural Heritage Standard Management System to an AI tool, which then automatically generates registration statements tailored to the required items for each institution. Previously, these statements were output with fixed items, but the new system improves efficiency by creating them according to each institution's work requirements.

The "Big Data Analysis of Foreign Press Reports" is a case where AI analyzed foreign news articles that previously had to be read and analyzed individually by people. Over two weeks, about 65,000 articles related to Korea, reported by 67 major foreign news outlets across 19 countries, were analyzed, grouping similar articles, and comprehensively identifying key coverage content and changes in editorial tone by country and period. The system received positive feedback for dramatically increasing both the scale and speed of foreign press big data analysis.

Additionally, ten proposals closely aligned with workplace needs received encouragement awards, including the automatic monitoring of copyright-related bills at the National Assembly, efficiency improvements in media report analysis, exhibition space planning at overseas Korean cultural centers using AI-generated images, automatic preparation of budget and settlement documents, a "Large Language Model (LLM) Wiki" for tracking regulation changes, press releases rewritten in simpler language, and an automated evidence collection system for illegal copyright sites.

The ministry stated that it would hold an awards ceremony for the contest during the "Conversation Between the Minister and Employees" event on the 3rd, providing an opportunity for winners to directly present and demonstrate their outstanding proposals. It added that outstanding proposals will be registered on the "AI Utilization Case Sharing" bulletin board on the ministry’s internal communication network, shared with all staff, and actively supported for practical application in daily work.

Minister Choi Hui-young said, "I hope that through this contest, our staff will have developed their abilities to directly apply AI in their work," adding, "In order to advance as a leading cultural nation in AI, it is vital to build an organizational culture where staff are highly skilled and comfortable utilizing AI on the frontline of cultural administration."

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