Korea issues phishing warning after financial-sector data leaks
The Personal Information Protection Commission and financial authorities urged consumers to guard against loan scams and identity theft built on leaked customer data.
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South Korean team takes five golds at astronomy olympiad
All five members of South Korea's delegation won gold at the 19th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a first for the country.
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Korea Intellectual Property Office adds 72 product names tied to mega projects
The 72 new product terms will be published on the office's website and take effect in the trademark register on Jan. 1, 2027.
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Science ministry tightens cyber response after bank hacks
The science ministry activated a 24-hour emergency response system with KISA and shared threat intelligence with thousands of companies after a series of intrusions at financial firms.
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Korea puts AI policy into phones, hospitals and patent files
Ministries spent the first two days of October turning an AI-transition slogan into concrete regulation, funding and open data — and pitching the model abroad.
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Science ministry forms public-private panel for national AI safety plan
South Korea's science ministry will operate a 25-member public-private working group from October to draft a national AI safety master plan by December.
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Korea privacy watchdog awards three firms for data protection technology
The Personal Information Protection Commission gave its first-ever technology awards to Onae People, NHN Dooray and L7 Security at the sixth Personal Information Protection Day ceremony.
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Science ministry picks 12 teams to build AI services at Seoul launch event
The science ministry selected 12 finalist teams from 390 nationwide AI service ideas and will pair them with mentors from Kakao, Naver Cloud, NHN Cloud, LG Uplus and SK Telecom for about two months of development support.
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Korea opens review of UK data protection as adequate
The Personal Information Protection Commission has begun a formal assessment of whether Britain's privacy regime is equivalent to Korea's, which would let companies move personal data there without extra safeguards.
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Korea, Vietnam discuss follow-up on science cooperation framework
Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon met Vietnam's science minister in Seoul to work out implementation of an April master-plan framework centered on the VKIST institute.
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Korea privacy chief visits Busan to shape AI-era data rules
The Personal Information Protection Commission toured port, smart city and pseudonymised-data sites in Busan, the third regional stop in a push to align privacy rules with AI-driven data use.
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Korea forms public-private SMR council to speed commercialization
The science ministry convened SMR suppliers and buyers on Oct. 1 and agreed to launch a reactor-type working group within the month.
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Korea tightens cyber discipline rules as agency heads escape penalties
The Personal Information Protection Commission and three other government bodies will hold agency chiefs accountable for serious data leaks and expand security evaluations to 2,160 institutions by 2028.
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Science ministry opens wireless power testbed in Daegu
The science ministry opened a testbed at Kyungpook National University's Daegu campus to let companies verify wireless power transfer technology for electric vehicles and robots in real-world conditions.
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Korea's AI chip benchmark K-Perf heads to the grid in first field test
KEPCO will use the government-backed K-Perf metric to vet domestically designed AI chips in an AI video-analysis pilot at its substations, the science ministry said.
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Science museum in Gwacheon to mark Hangul Day with braille and starlight
The National Gwacheon Science Museum will hold a special Hangul Day program on Oct. 9, marking the centennial of the holiday's creation and of the braille script's proclamation with hands-on exhibits, a planetarium writing contest and events for multicultural families.
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Science ministry youth panel urges research culture that tolerates failure
First Vice Minister Koo Hyuk-chae met the ministry's third 2030 youth advisory group in Seoul to hear proposals on research culture and graduate student support.
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Korea expands AI council to 42 agencies, reviews AI legislation framework
The Personal Information Protection Commission joined the fifth meeting of the national AI officer council, where officials reviewed a legislative framework and called for stronger public-sector data protection.
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Korea data watchdog sets fast-track rules as breach reports near 2025 total
The Personal Information Protection Commission will route major breach cases to dedicated teams and close minor ones within three months, as reports reached 432 in the first half of 2026.
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Science ministry awards 32 teams in AI, XR developer contest
The Ministry of Science and ICT honored 32 teams out of 497 that competed in the sixth annual AI and XR service developer contest, with follow-up internships and startup consulting for winners.
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Science museum takes live science shows into the crowd from October
The National Science Museum will run interactive science busking performances every Friday and Sunday starting in October, using a custom-built mobile experiment cart.
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Science ministry hosts forum on AI cooperation with nine countries
South Korea's science ministry and the national IT agency brought senior officials from nine governments to Seoul to discuss practical AI and digital cooperation.
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Science ministry briefs regional universities on 2027 basic research budget
Park In-kyu, head of the science ministry's science and technology innovation office, met regional university researchers to explain the 2027 government R&D budget and hear their views.
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Korea Intellectual Property Office forum to trace roots of IP administration
The Korea Intellectual Property Office and the Korea Institute of Intellectual Property will mark the office's first anniversary with a policy forum on the history of the country's intellectual property administration.
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Korean researchers find atomic stacking order can add new functions to materials
A POSTECH-led team has shown that arranging atoms in a gradient rather than evenly can give metals and ultrathin insulators properties they did not have before, in work published in Science.
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Korea privacy watchdog seeks public views on AI data rules
The Personal Information Protection Commission will gather 200 citizens at Yonsei University on Nov. 1 to debate how AI should use personal data, as it prepares a policy package for release this year.
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Gwacheon science museum to host night sky festival on Oct. 10
The National Gwacheon Science Museum will combine stargazing, reading and music at a special observation event marking Hangul Day.
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Science ministry pledges quantum support at Seoul National University lab visit
First Vice Minister Koo Hyuk-chae toured a domestic ion-trap quantum computer and discussed turning research into startups and commercial products under the government's seven SEED projects.
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Science ministry launches rare-earth research body
South Korea formed a 40-member industry-academia council to cut rare-earth use and build domestic recycling capacity for permanent magnets.
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Korea Intellectual Property Office marks first year with 2035 time capsule
The Korea Intellectual Property Office marked its first anniversary and 80 years of Korean intellectual property administration, sealing a time capsule to be opened in 2035.
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