The Broadcast Media Telecommunications Commission is starting technology development to change production structures and service methods in the broadcast-media industry. It will invest 13.7 billion won in AI-centred R&D this year.

The commission said on Jan. 5 it has drawn up an implementation plan for a broadcast-media R&D programme that will invest a total of 13.8 billion won in 2026. It also said it will begin a public call, together with the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation, for new projects to receive support.

The move aims to support development of AI-based technologies to innovate broadcast-media production and services in response to the spread of global online video services, growth in personalised media use and a surge in production costs.

It will invest a total of 9.6 billion won this year in developing AI-based full-cycle media innovation technologies to cut costs and raise quality by applying AI across the entire broadcast-media content production process.

New projects will number 4 and total 3.7 billion won. The commission will support technology development that uses AI to plan, produce and edit broadcast content in an interactive way and to control the entire process in an integrated manner. It will also support technology development that enables multiple producers to jointly edit content in real time.

As continuing projects following last year, it will pursue development of AI-based special-effects generation technologies and technologies that convert people and objects in video into digital elements for diverse recomposition. It will provide 5.9 billion won.

It will invest a total of 4.2 billion won this year in developing personalised media platform technologies to provide user-specific media services by analysing viewing histories and content characteristics.

It will 추진 four new projects, including development of technologies that automatically generate and connect video reflecting individual preference types and the flow of videos being watched, and development of intelligent media viewing-assistance technologies that automatically adjust screen or sound and provide information tailored to the viewing environment.

To help technologies developed through these projects be used in the broadcast-media industry, it will strengthen links among projects and establish a commercialisation-centred technology development system.

To do so, it will expand integrated projects in which multiple projects are linked and supported, evaluated and managed as a single consortium. It will also operate a management system that checks and adjusts the appropriateness of research targets each year to reflect rapid technological change.

Kang Do-sung, director of the commission’s Broadcast Media Promotion Bureau, said he hopes the new technology development projects this year, reflecting industry demand such as improved efficiency in broadcast production using AI and wider adoption of personalised media services, will accelerate stronger competitiveness and production innovation in the broadcast-media industry.