Search results for Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
AI & Enterprise
MSIT launches K-Moonshot rare earth industry-academia-research council
South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT launched a K-Moonshot rare earth industry-academia-research council in Seoul on Wednesday to strengthen supply-chain capabilities for materials heavily dependent on China. The ministry is pursuing a K-Moonshot programme that combines AI and science and technology. It plans work from 2027 led by three state research institutes to develop permanent magnet processes that avoid heavy rare earths, sharply cut light rare earth use and recover rare earths from waste magnets.
People & Appointments
Vice Minister Gu Hyeok-chae attends ceremony marking completion of national geological map project
Gu Hyeok-chae (구혁채), first vice minister of science and ICT, attended a ceremony on Sept. 10 at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources marking the completion of the national basic geological map and encouraged geological survey researchers. The map divides areas south of the Korean peninsula\'s armistice line into 359 zones at a 1:50,000 scale and is used as basic data for resource exploration, land use and disaster and safety responses. The project began in 1924 and concluded this year with completion of a map covering parts of Jodo Archipelago in Jindo County, South Jeolla province.
AI & Enterprise
South Korea, Mongolia resume science and technology cooperation after 14 years, expand AI cooperation
South Korea and Mongolia have resumed official cooperation in science and technology for the first time in 14 years, holding a joint committee meeting and a science and technology forum. South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT said it held the third South Korea-Mongolia Joint Committee on Science and Technology in Ulaanbaatar on July 8 with Mongolia\'s Ministry of Economy and Development. The sides discussed exchanges and joint research and signed multiple cooperation memorandums.
