Ha Jungwoo Returns to Lead National AX Implementation: "Toward an Irreplaceable AI Core Supply Chain Nation"

National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Committee Marks First Anniversary with Performance Report

"Advancing as a Global AI Core Supply Chain Nation... Realizing 'AI for Everyone'"

The National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Committee (AI Strategy Committee), marking its first anniversary, is entering the full-scale policy implementation phase to become one of the top three global AI powerhouses.

On September 8, the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Committee held its first anniversary performance report event at Seoul Square, releasing its major policy achievements and unveiling future activity plans.

Ha Jungwoo, Standing Vice Chairman of the National AI Strategy Committee, is delivering a presentation on the 2nd at the National Assembly Members' Office Building at the "Forum for the Leap of the Republic of Korea as a Global Robot Foundry and the Realization of a K-Physical AI Power," hosted by Kim Eui-gyeom of the Democratic Party of Korea. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

The event was attended by Ha Jungwoo, Standing Vice Chair; Lim Moonyoung, National Assembly member and former Vice Chair; Kim Woochang, Blue House National AI Policy Secretary; the heads of the ten subcommittees; the two special committee chairs; and task force leaders.

Ha stated, "If the past year was a time to lay the foundation for South Korea’s great AI transformation, now is the moment to achieve an even greater leap forward on that basis. The Committee will steadfastly support South Korea’s rise as an irreplaceable global AI core supply chain nation needed by the world, while also ensuring that all Korean citizens can share in the opportunities and benefits of AI through ‘AI for everyone.’"

Launched in September last year, the AI Strategy Committee has served as the top control tower for Korea's AI policy, acting as a bridge between the private sector and the government. It has also facilitated the establishment of a national AI strategy and coordinated major policies across ministries and sectors. In February, the committee finalized and announced the ‘Korea Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’.

On this day, Ha delivered a presentation entitled "Policy Proposals for Becoming a Top Three AI Power," analyzing the international AI supremacy competition, assessing the nation's AI competitiveness, and presenting the committee’s major achievements along with future policy directions.

He evaluated that, based on Korea’s strengths in AI technology, infrastructure, and manufacturing competitiveness, the nation has the potential to establish a full-stack AI ecosystem. Ha proposed further advancing the Korea Artificial Intelligence Action Plan to match the rapidly changing AI environment, expanding new growth opportunities through AI for regional areas and youth, and strengthening global cooperation.

The AI Strategy Committee plans to operate the committee with a focus on collaboration so that large-scale inter-ministerial AI projects, such as the three mega-projects and the seven SEED projects, can be carried out organically, with an emphasis on projects and performance.

The committee also disclosed future plans for each subcommittee. The Technology Innovation and Infrastructure Subcommittee aims to support the efficient use of the national AI infrastructure by establishing an AI data center review and decision-making system and upgrading the real-time management of computing resources such as GPUs. The Science Subcommittee will support follow-up measures for the K-Moonshot and the Research Data Act, while monitoring the development status of specialized AI foundation models in fields such as bio, materials, and healthcare.

The Industrial-AX and Ecosystem Subcommittee will monitor the implementation of key strategies like manufacturing AI, autonomous driving, and humanoids, and will support the plans for fostering global AI decacorn companies by 2030 and initiating an AI-driven transformation in the transportation and logistics sector centered on autonomous driving to boost the entire industrial ecosystem’s AX (AI transformation). The Public AX Subcommittee will establish a rapid development system and guidelines for public sector AI transformation (AX).

The Data Subcommittee will support the assetization of data by establishing a system for data value assessment and linking finance and accounting, while elaborating ways to integrate and cooperate across national AI, data, and technology policies. The Social Subcommittee will strengthen policies for inclusive AI, such as preparing plans for innovation in AI-driven welfare and care services and a comprehensive response plan to eradicate AI crime.

The Defense and Security Subcommittee will sequentially open five defense AX base centers starting this month to promote data sharing and AI transformation demonstrations, support the development of defense-specialized AI based on an indigenous AI foundation model, and build a dedicated AI data center for defense. The Global Cooperation Subcommittee will finalize the national AI standardization governance system and strengthen AI policy cooperation with major countries abroad.

The Education and Talent Subcommittee, in cooperation with the National Education Commission, will detail new education systems for the AI-native era and strategies for integrating AI across all disciplines of higher education, while the AI Democracy Subcommittee will support the global spread of a Korea-style AI democracy model.

The Special Committee on Security will focus on a full-scale AI security push, linking dispersed systems such as ISMS and N2SF, and prepare a K-AI cybersecurity framework. The Regional Special Committee will connect the three mega-projects and seven SEED projects to regional AX initiatives in order to narrow the AI gap between regions. The Legal Task Force will formalize a Korean AI legislative framework and support the enactment and revision of AI-related laws by sector based on this framework.

Ha emphasized, "Now, the most important thing is to translate the foundations prepared over the past year into tangible change felt by the public and businesses. The second-term committee will work even harder to connect the necessary capabilities across ministries and fields and resolve challenges on the ground."

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