South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity on Monday held the finals of the inaugural \'My Research Challenge Story\' contest in Seoul. They selected Lee Jong-won of Keimyung University as the top prize winner. The contest highlights researchers\' trial-and-error and challenges on the way to new achievements. The event also named two excellence prize winners and three encouragement prize winners, with cash awards.

South Korea is expanding its AI talent policy to reshape entire university education systems around AI. Under the AI-centric university programme, AI training extends beyond related departments and includes mandatory basic AI education for all students, plus new interdisciplinary courses linking AI to each major. The AX graduate school programme aims to train advanced, industry-ready talent combining AI with domain expertise, with 15 universities supported and 26 companies participating in joint research and education.