Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), on April 16, jointly convened the first meeting of the AI semiconductor Working Group under the AI Strategy High-Level Committee, launched April 4, to gather opinions of top experts in the field of AI and semiconductors regarding the AI Semiconductor Initiative, which was first introduced during the President-chaired discussions on pending chip issues held April 9.

 

The AI Strategy High-Level Committee was created under the ministries’ shared understanding that a whole-of-the-government governance is needed to lead Korea’s AI innovation from an interconnected and integrative perspective. Co-chaired by the MSIT minister and a private-sector expert (Taejae University President Yeom Jae-ho), the Committee is composed of 23 top AI private sector experts and seven deputy ministerial-level officials from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF), Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), Ministry of Education (MOE), Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), Korea Communications Commission (KCC), and MOTIE. The Committee will be running six working groups.

 

Attending the meeting were Professor Yoo Hoi-jun at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Head of the AI Semiconductor Working Group, along with experts from related companies like Samsung, SK Hynix, KT, NHN Cloud, LG AI Lab, Sapeon, FuriosaAI, as well as academia and R&D experts in AI and AI chips.