Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea announced today that Korea won a place among the new Global Innovation Champions this year at the Consumer Electrics Show (CES) 2025 currently in full swing in Las Vegas, U.S.

As host of CES, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) grades each country’s technological innovation capacity by the association’s Global Innovation Scorecard and announces the results during each year’s CES event.

The CTA’s report evaluated 75 countries according to 15 criteria. Countries are classified into four groups by order of rank: Innovation Champions, Innovation Leaders, Innovation Adopters, and Modest Innovators.

This year, Korea jumped up to the Innovation Champions league from its previous position as Innovation Leader (2023), gaining high scores in areas such as encouragement of global tech trade, allowance of cross-border data flow, startup and small business friendliness, pro-innovation legal environment, and digital transparency.

Other countries in the Innovation Champion group include the U.S., the UK, Japan, France, and Germany.