The science ministry plans to turn its ABLE blockchain forum into a platform connecting companies with demand, investment and overseas opportunities as AI and digital assets reshape the sector.
South Korea's science ministry has granted innovation-product designations to 13 offerings, including locally developed artificial-intelligence semiconductors.
South Korea's science ministry announced Daegu's first AI-bio hub for synthetic drug discovery, which will pair AI models with automated laboratory testing.
South Korea's science ministry chose 14 public-research-based ventures, with seven startup-track winners advancing to a cross-ministerial startup competition.
The science ministry said Bae Kyung-hoon and Sayasat Nurbek explored AI and science and technology cooperation, including a Kazakhstan institute project modeled on KAIST.
The science ministry has opened applications for a director to lead the K-Moonshot project's AI scientist mission, which aims to develop AI able to conduct the full research cycle autonomously by 2035.
All models developed by the project's four teams in the first half joined Epoch AI's Notable Model list, with South Korea among just three countries represented.
South Korea's science ministry will convene more than 80 institutions to build a self-driving laboratory ecosystem supporting AI-based scientific research.
The National Children's Science Museum will host a three-day event featuring hands-on artificial intelligence and robotics activities for children and families.
The Personal Information Protection Commission is broadening a pilot to move data-scraping services toward safer transfers before new rules take effect Aug. 20.
The Korea Intellectual Property Office is overhauling patent examinations and adding support for young companies to make reviews more responsive to applicants.
First-half tests covering consumer products, smart bus shelters and 4,780 living-environment sites found all readings within domestic human-protection standards.
The National Gwacheon Science Museum will offer free evening exhibition access and a program of astronomy, performances and paid activities for adults on Aug. 14.
The ministry is seeking proposals to convert about three high schools in seven regions without science-gifted schools into science-gifted schools tied to science and technology institutes.
The Ministry of Science and ICT will invest more than 60 billion won in 22 projects to develop and test products and services based on Korean AI semiconductors.