{"id":1139271,"date":"2026-01-01T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/national\/s-korea-to-spend-8-12-tln-won-on-science-ict-rd-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:51:50","slug":"s-korea-to-spend-8-12-tln-won-on-science-ict-rd-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/s-korea-to-spend-8-12-tln-won-on-science-ict-rd-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea to spend 8.12 tln won on science, ICT R&#038;D this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEOUL,Jan 1 (Yonhap\/APP): South Korea&#8217;s science ministry said Thursday it will invest 8.12 trillion won (US$5.6 billion) this year on research and development in science and information and communications technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The budget, up 25.4 percent from a year earlier, consists of 6.44 trillion won for science and technology and 1.68 trillion won for ICT, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry said the expanded spending is intended to promote innovation-led growth amid global economic uncertainty and prolonged low growth, while advancing South Korea&#8217;s push to become one of the world&#8217;s top three artificial intelligence powers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the science and technology sector, the government will increase spending in future technologies such as biotechnology and quantum science, while strengthening core technologies to secure a competitive edge in key industries, including semiconductors and secondary batteries, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the ICT sector, the ministry said it will expand investment in AI-driven transformation, including the development of AI transformation engines and efforts to train highly skilled AI professionals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. Korea to spend 8.12 tln won on science, ICT R&#038;D this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[66,67],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1139271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","tag-ict","tag-ministry-of-science","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139271"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1139271"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1139271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}