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Science & Technology
Govt-funded research institutes to reorganise around core missions after PBS abolition
South Korea\'s government-funded science and technology research institutes will overhaul their R&D business structures around institution-specific core missions after the abolition of the project-based system (PBS). Incentives such as research allowances will shift from contract scale to differentiated rewards based on performance. The Ministry of Science and ICT said NST approved detailed post-PBS implementation measures, including stronger inter-institute cooperation, evaluation links to budgets and incentives, improved research administration support, and a formal umbrella TLO to back large technology transfers and deep-tech startups.
AI & Enterprise
ETRI aims to develop \'director-level AI scientist\' by 2035, unveils 50th anniversary vision
South Korea\'s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said it would challenge itself to develop a \"director-level AI scientist\" by 2035 that can autonomously carry out the full research cycle, from hypothesis setting to experiments, analysis and verification. It also unveiled an AI innovation strategy and plans to focus R&D capabilities on five areas including AI-native 6G and satellite communications, safe artificial general intelligence, immersive space media, physical AI, and public and industrial AI and digital transformation.
AI & Enterprise
K-Moonshot project stumbles at start as AI scientist program director offers to resign
South Korea\'s K-Moonshot project, aimed at applying AI to science and technology to solve national challenges, faces an early setback after a mission program director offered to resign. The science ministry said the resignation came for personal reasons and is expected to be accepted after the deputy prime minister returns from an overseas trip. The ministry plans to proceed without recruiting a successor and has outlined governance and conflict-of-interest controls for program directors.