{"id":33794,"date":"2025-08-31T00:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/33794\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:48:24","slug":"south-korea-triples-ai-budget-to-7bn-amid-intense-global-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/33794\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea triples AI budget to $7bn amid intense global competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20250829\u3000South Korea triples AI budget\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">South Korean President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s government has proposed a big jump in AI spending. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>KIM JAEWON<\/p>\n<p>August 29, 2025 18:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; South Korea has proposed tripling its artificial intelligence budget next year to more than 10 trillion won ($7.2 billion) as President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s government is keen for the country to adopt the new technology across sectors ranging from robotics and autos to health care and public services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s government has proposed a big jump in AI spending. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[26443,291,10471,79,428,179,18,13676,19,26444,17,6571,6570,26442],"class_list":{"0":"post-33794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-7bn","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-competition","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-global","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-intense","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-korea","20":"tag-south","21":"tag-triples"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}