KERC Newsletter / 2023.12.20.
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R&I News
International Cooperation
MSIT hosted the "Korea-OECD Science and Technology Innovation Forum" on 13 Dec. Discusses future tasks for fostering innovative and challenging R&D, and taking a leap into global R&D hub
As part of the follow-up measures to the AI Safety Summit held last November, AI experts from both countries gathered to explore technological exchanges and cooperation opportunities for securing AI safety.
Policy & Stats
South Korea aims to build 10,000 smart buildings with easy access to robots, autonomous vehicles, and urban air mobility by 2035.
The Ministry of Science and ICT has been pushing to launch the new space agency, tentatively named the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA), which will function as the Korean version of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As the government hinted at introducing the Platform Competition Law to break up the monopoly of major digital platforms, the minister of science and ICT said on Monday that there is a need for regulation if there is harm caused by monopoly.
Research Trends
A KAIST research team demonstrates the transfer printing of a large number of micro-sized inorganic semiconductor chips via the selective modulation of micro-vacuum force.
Technology
Industry R&D
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"The two countries' companies will establish an R&D center in South Korea, and graduate school students will learn cutting-edge technologies together, while the governments agreed to establish chip dialogue channels,"
