- Presidential Decree on the Establishment and Operation of the National AI Strategy Committee approved at Cabinet meeting

The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT, Minister Bae Kyunghoon) announced that the Presidential Decree on the Establishment and Operation of the National AI Strategy Committee was approved at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, September 2, paving the way for the formal establishment of the National AI Strategy Committee (hereinafter, the Committee).

The global contest for leadership in artificial intelligence has escalated from competition among individual corporations to an all-out rivalry among nations. Major countries have unveiled multi-trillion-won investment packages in AI* and are actively fostering it as a strategic national asset. In this environment, marshalling Korea’s full national capabilities is more urgent than ever to achieve the administration’s core policy goal of positioning Korea among the world’s top three AI powers.
*Examples: U.S. “Stargate Project” (approximately KRW 700 trillion); European Union (approximately KRW 300 trillion).

During his presidential campaign, President Lee Jae Myung pledged to strengthen Korea’s AI governance by directly chairing the national AI committee and leading a public–private governance framework. The newly adopted decree puts this promise into action, transforming the body into a substantive national AI strategy organ rather than a mere advisory group. As a result, upon the inauguration of the new administration, the Committee will be relaunched as the nation’s AI command center (“control tower”) for coordinating and implementing AI policy, with its name formally changed to the National AI Strategy Committee.


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