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South Korea will hold a public hearing in Sejong on Oct. 14 to explain how it will choose the home for a global AI hub that 14 international organizations and development banks have backed.
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South Korea's science ministry honored 32 teams from a field of 497 in its sixth annual AI and extended-reality developer competition, offering internships and startup support to the winners.
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The Personal Information Protection Commission handed out 24.5 million won in prizes at its largest-ever pseudonymized data competition, with a highway toll study and a caregiving-bankruptcy warning service among the top winners.
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The National Science Museum will run a traveling, audience-driven science show every Friday and Sunday from October.
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The science ministry shared follow-up plans with budget mobile carriers, including eased entry rules for operators with their own network equipment and wider radio spectrum fee cuts.
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South Korea convened senior government delegations from nine countries in Seoul to build practical partnerships on artificial intelligence and digital cooperation.
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The Korea Intellectual Property Office and the science ministry won cabinet-level approval for a strategy to embed patent planning in state research and commercialize public technology abroad.
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Park In-kyu, head of the science ministry's science and technology innovation office, met regional university researchers to explain next year's government R&D budget and hear their views.
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South Korea ranked fourth among 139 countries in the 2026 Global Innovation Index, remaining Asia's top performer while slipping in several market and institutional categories.
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The Korea Intellectual Property Office released three new datasets of patent, chemistry and trademark records free of charge.
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South Korea's science ministry named 18 universities and 15 graduate schools for its new AI education programs, with an annual 3 billion won in support per school.
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The National Gwacheon Science Museum will run a free climate-change program for elementary students on Oct. 3, with researchers from seven national institutes covering culture, plants, animals and safety.
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The government-backed AI Semiconductor Innovation Research Institute will train more than 110 master's and doctoral students over six years and link university research with corporate partners.
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Reeturnol won the top prize at the 2026 intellectual property startup contest for an AI system that inspects returned online purchases.
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A Naver Cloud consortium will develop a cybersecurity-specific AI model for national infrastructure, the science ministry said, as the government pushes for AI security sovereignty.
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The science ministry gathered academics, lawyers and industry officials in Seoul to debate how platform regulation should adapt as artificial intelligence reshapes the market.
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Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon told a forum in Seoul that Korea's physical AI push must run from technology development through field testing, commercialization and investment.
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The science ministry briefed university, corporate and institute researchers on a package of administrative reforms that includes a cap on per-person research allowances and a new "moving target" mechanism for changing project goals.
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The Personal Information Protection Commission will bring together data regulators, international organizations and technology companies on Sept. 29 to discuss how privacy protection and AI innovation can advance together.
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South Korea accounted for 6,030 of 14,605 grid energy-storage patent applications filed with the world's five largest intellectual property offices from 2004 to 2023, with LG Energy Solution the top applicant.
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The National Gwacheon Science Museum will run two months of exhibitions, festivals, performances and programs under the theme "Retro & Future," from early October through late November.
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The Korea Intellectual Property Office and Singapore's IP office will gather companies and experts from both countries for a Sept. 29 webinar on dispute resolution, IP infrastructure and startup growth.
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South Korea will run pilot safety inspections at three institutions this year and expand to 22 universities and state research institutes next year, as campus semiconductor lab accidents rose from 18 in 2023 to 32 in 2025.
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Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon emphasized that securing frontier AI capabilities is essential for national security despite global calls to slow development.
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The regulator will release videos and infographics created by young interns to mark Personal Information Protection Week.
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The Ministry of Science and ICT will award up to 31 million won in prizes to ideas that connect community problems with research and development solutions.
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Officials and industry leaders gathered in Seoul to discuss ownership and compensation issues arising from the use of industrial data in artificial intelligence models.
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The Ministry of Science and ICT designated nine regulatory sandbox cases, including a pilot program enabling civil servants to pay work-related costs via digital tokens.
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The Ministry of Science and ICT held a briefing to explain plans for overhauling national research assessments and improving administrative rules for 2026.
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The agency held a talk concert to gather youth feedback on integrating artificial intelligence into its public patent search platform.
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