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Policy & Stats

MSIT Announces 2022 Survey Result on Digital Divide

The digitalization level of vulnerable groups compared to general population increases, with the percentage of smartphone overdependence risk groups decreasing

MSIT Launches the K-Network 2030 Strategy

The MSIT, recognizing the need for making a proactive investment in next-generation network and creating a foundation for the industry through public and private cooperation, will actively carry out policy tasks to achieve three goals

South Korea to accelerate development of new materials in bid to reduce dependency on foreign products

The government has designated 100 prioritized future materials that should be focused on.

Republic of Korea Hosts 36 Countries to Address Climate Crisis

Advisory Board meeting of UNFCCC Technology Mechanism held for the first time in Korea - 8 areas of cooperation (digitalization, energy system, building &infrastructure, etc.) to become top agenda

Top U.S. trade official to visit S. Korea next week for talks on IRA, Chips Act

United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai will visit South Korea next week for talks on U.S. acts on semiconductors and electric vehicles (EVs), as well as other pending bilateral issues

Research Trends

e-Um 5G Leading Digital Innovation

It is necessary to focus policy capability on creating a 5G convergence ecosystem by actively discovering and spreading 5G convergence services through the activation of e-Um 5G

Using light to throw and catch atoms to open up a new chapter for quantum computing

KAIST researchers devises a technology to utilize ultrahigh-resolution micro-LED with 40% reduced self-generated heat

KAIST research team develops clathrin assembly for targeted protein delivery to cancer cells

Technology

Transfer centers with urban air mobility infrastructure to be established in S. Korea

Industry R&D

LG Innotek develops upgraded vehicle communication module

LG Innotek said Wednesday it has successfully developed an upgraded vehicle-to-everything communication module that drastically improves data transmission speed.

LX Hausys inks strategic partnership with Belgium’s Reynaers Aluminium

Korean building materials company LX Hausys said Wednesday it will cooperate with Reynaers Aluminium, a Belgian manufacturer of aluminium products, in a bid to accelerate its entry into the domestic aluminum window market.