The South Korean government would begin to work, in consultation with the academics, on crafting the implementation strategy to realise the country’s goal of technological advancement.
The country’s top policy makers had earlier decided that development of certain technologies is critical to South Korea’s future competitiveness.
Following this, an intensive study was commissioned, mainly to understand how specific technology could strengthen the country’s supply chain resiliency, national security and create new industries to capture future markets.
The study concluded that the following technologies would play an increasingly important role in the country’s development:
- Cybersecurity;
- Aerospace;
- Quantum technology;
- Manufacturing;
- Advanced robotics;
- Hydrogen;
- Secondary battery technology;
- Display and semi-conductor;
- Advanced biotechnology;
- 5G and 6G; and
- Artificial intelligence.
Of the identified technologies, a taskforce would further identify additional sub-technologies in each field and develop a roadmap to foster its growth.
On top of this, some universities would be selected to be part of the roadmap, mainly to nurture the necessary manpower and conduct research and development (R&D).
Beyond this, the South Korean government would also, through one of the universities, to extend industrial cooperation with foreign companies like Google, Apple, etc and other overseas research institutions.
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