SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will invest 31.5 billion won (US$24.06 million) this year in nurturing nearly 4,000 talents in the future car industry as part of efforts to secure advanced technologies in the field and find a new growth engine, the industry ministry said Tuesday. The government plans to secure 3,735 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest 54 billion won (US$40.8 million) over the next four years to help universities nurture about 400 semiconductor majors every year, officials said Tuesday. The plan by the Education Ministry comes as the country, home to such semiconductor giants as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government and the country’s major chipmakers agreed Thursday to jointly nurture more than 2,300 top-level talents in the semiconductor field over the next decade in an effort to maintain global technology prowess, the industry ministry said. The ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid intensified global competition to attract high-caliber talent in the science and research areas, South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) brain drain remains at a serious level, a state-backed science education institute said. Asia’s fourth-largest economy scored -35.04 in the index indicating the flow of AI talent (AI talent index) [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to nurture 100,000 talented individuals in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector by 2025 by supporting related graduate schools and colleges centering on software development, the finance minister said Thursday. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki also said the country plans to spend more than 23 billion won (US$21 [...]