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.

A joint public-private investigation team has spent the past 500 days probing cyber breaches that hit South Korea’s telecommunications and broadcasting industry. Its investigations covered SK Telecom’s USIM hacking incident, KT’s illegal femtocell-linked case and Tving’s account information leak, and it was also deployed to a Coupang breach. The team found repeated shortcomings in basic security practices such as account and authentication management, log retention and abnormal-sign detection, and identified cases of late or missing incident reporting.