{"id":68877,"date":"2026-06-29T20:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/68877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:08:18","slug":"lee-vows-to-complete-korean-style-ai-industrial-revolution-led-by-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/68877\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Vows to Complete Korean-Style AI Industrial Revolution Led by Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"President Lee Jae-myung, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong (right) and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won (left) join hands at the &quot;National Briefing on the Three Mega-Projects for South Korea's Great Leap&quot; held at the Blue House on the 29th. Yonhap News - Seoul Economic Daily Politics News from South Korea\" title=\"Lee Vows to Complete Korean-Style AI Industrial Revolution Led by Regions\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/news-p.v1.20260629.3677d023bf954737aa33bd5919e2c4b3_P1.jpg\"\/>President Lee Jae-myung, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong (right) and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won (left) join hands at the &#8220;National Briefing on the Three Mega-Projects for South Korea&#8217;s Great Leap&#8221; held at the Blue House on the 29th. Yonhap News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">President Lee Jae-myung emphasized Saturday that &#8220;we will complete a Korean-style artificial intelligence (AI) industrial revolution led by regions and reaching out to the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Writing on Facebook, Lee said, &#8220;The government will spare no innovation or support so that the &#8216;three mega projects&#8217; we promised to the public today can become a springboard for a great leap that will secure the Republic of Korea&#8217;s future.&#8221; Of the &#8220;Republic of Korea Great Leap Three Mega Projects National Report&#8221; held the same day, Lee said, &#8220;My heart was full at the thought that, far in the future, today might be remembered as the day a new history of the Republic of Korea began.&#8221; He added, &#8220;It was a time when I felt the possibility and potential of the Republic of Korea as an industrial power with a super gap, and at the same time was overwhelmed by the earnest desire that we must succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">He continued, &#8220;Fierce debate and various concerns came together, but one thing was clear,&#8221; saying, &#8220;that in an all-out competition with the nation&#8217;s fate at stake, only a speed battle is the way to survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Lee stressed that &#8220;the government and the private sector must consolidate their capabilities to build a Korean-style artificial intelligence ecosystem with a sense of speed, binding together the three axes of semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Our companies have chosen the regions as Korea&#8217;s growth hubs in the AI era,&#8221; and said, &#8220;I believe this is the result of quickly reading the changes and opportunities of the times, including power, water, and abundant land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Lee said, &#8220;I will concentrate the government&#8217;s capabilities so that companies&#8217; bold investments can bear fruit in even greater growth,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Once again, on behalf of the people, I extend my deep gratitude to Chairman Jay Y. Lee and Chairman Tae-won Choi for making this historic decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Earlier, the president, the government, Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee, and SK Group Chairman Tae-won Choi announced a plan to undertake regional investments across the three axes of semiconductors, data centers, and physical AI, including the creation of a second semiconductor cluster in the Gwangju and South Jeolla region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae-myung, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong (right) and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won (left) join hands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[544,31,37946,146,1223,276,1136,240,33,37007],"class_list":["post-68877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-ai-data-center","tag-korea","tag-korean-style-ai","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-physical-ai","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-semiconductors","tag-sk-group","tag-south-korea","tag-three-mega-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}