The minister spoke on Monday in Sejong. The planning was finished. Now they would build.
“We secured the money,” Bae Kyung-hoon said. “We laid the foundations. Now we execute.”
Korea needs chips. Good chips. They will get 52,000 GPUs by 2028. Then 260,000 by 2030. The companies agreed to help. Even this might not be enough.
The demand grows. Other countries want to work with Korea on AI. The minister knows this.
AI will do more than compute. It will make discoveries in biology. In quantum physics. In communications. They call the new system “co-scientist.” The AI will not assist. It will discover.
Some say it is too much investment. Too fast. A bubble.
“AI is not a bubble,” Bae said.
The private companies stayed away before. The costs were too high. Infrastructure. Data. All of it expensive. Now the government buys the GPUs. The companies will follow.
They will make their own chips. Build their own servers. The state helps them start. Then they go overseas.
The 5G network is not enough. Not for what comes next. They need 6G. The investment starts in 2026. Government and industry together.
“Next year,” the minister said, “we move from vision to reality.”
The committee met that afternoon. They proposed 9.9 trillion won for 2026. Nearly half goes to new projects. Infrastructure. Capability.
They finished the National AI Action Plan. One hundred days of work. Ninety-eight initiatives. Security. Talent. Reform. Hackers in white hats will inspect systems in real time. AI will predict who needs help before they ask. Public systems will move to private clouds.
The public has until January 4 to respond. Then the committee meets again. Then the plan is final.
The work begins in 2026. The planning is over.
Source: https://modernaitoday.com/korea-builds-ai-infrastructure/
