South Korea\'s National AI Strategy Committee set a goal for its second year of positioning the country as an irreplaceable core player in the global AI supply chain and a trusted partner. It plans to pursue tasks including national strategic industrialisation of AI data centres, industry and defence AX, and AI security and standardisation, while shifting its operations from subcommittee-led work to project-based execution. It also aims to focus on implementation and performance management as the cross-government AI budget rises.

Ha Jung-woo (하정우), vice chairman of the National AI Strategy Committee, said South Korea must build the capability to develop and operate frontier AI on its own, beyond creating a standalone foundation model. He said the country should unite top domestic capabilities rather than rely on firm-by-firm competition to narrow gaps with the United States and China. He also urged steps to reduce dependence on U.S. and Chinese technology and highlighted data use, data centre permits and supply chain stability as urgent issues. He largely avoided questions about his political future.