“Just as ‘chimpanzee research’ immediately brings Jane Goodall to mind, we will discover scholars who have dedicated their lives to research based on our own content,” a authorities official mentioned.
The Korean authorities is launching a brand new R&D initiative primarily based on the nation’s distinctive tradition, historical past, and setting. The Ministry of Science and ICT introduced on the twelfth that it’s going to pursue the Ok-Science coverage after deliberating and approving the “2027 National R&D Investment Direction and Standards (draft)” on the eightieth steering committee assembly of the National Science and Technology Advisory Council.
Ok-Science is a science and expertise paradigm that mixes Korea’s distinctive historical past, tradition, and setting to contribute to social and cultural improvement. While most R&D insurance policies have been decided inside a aggressive framework towards different nations in areas equivalent to semiconductors, Ok-Science goals to develop science tradition primarily based on storytelling that resonates with the general public.
Park In-kyu, head of the Innovation Division main the coverage, defined: “K-Science focuses on fields pioneered and led by Korean scientists, and areas that would be difficult for foreign scientists to pursue without Korean researchers. K-Science refers to research that can only be conducted with data unique to Korea.”
The authorities plans to compile and evaluate all tasks proposed by numerous ministries in March earlier than finalizing particular measures for Ok-Science. The initiative goals to uncover objects that mix storytelling and tradition, not simply analysis and expertise.