The government will reopen applications to fill the project director post for the AI scientist mission under the K-Moonshot project, which had become vacant. The National Research Council of Science and Technology is reported to have tabled a recruitment plan at a recent written meeting. It plans to run an open hiring process for about two weeks and expects the selected director to start around September. The role became vacant after a resignation citing conflicts of interest.

Koo Hyeok-chae, first vice minister at South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT, met in Seoul on Monday with former Korea Academy of Engineering president Kim Ki-nam and K-Moonshot semiconductor project managers to discuss how to 추진 the K-Moonshot projects in semiconductors and quantum. Participants shared directions for ultra-fine and stacked semiconductor development, strengthening quantum competitiveness using manufacturing capabilities, and industry-academia-research cooperation to commercialise research results.