South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT held a public hearing on May 28 to arrange the sixth national science and technology master plan for 2026 to 2030.
The master plan is the highest statutory plan within the science and technology subject, drawn up underneath the Framework Act on Science and Technology. It is applied collectively by central authorities businesses and native governments via annual implementation plans. A mid- to long-term funding technique for the national analysis and improvement finances and sectoral plans drawn up by a number of ministries are additionally formulated based mostly on the master plan.
Earlier, the ministry fashioned a drafting committee of about 90 specialists spanning science and technology in addition to social, humanities and financial fields. Starting with a kickoff assembly chaired by the deputy prime minister in January, it produced a draft master plan via a normal committee, eight subcommittee conferences and 4 relay on-site conferences.
On the day, the ministry’s Office of Science and Technology Innovation offered the master plan’s imaginative and prescient and proposed key duties underneath 4 main methods. It additionally held a free dialogue to listen to proposals on the present authorities’s science and technology coverage path after gathering associated opinions. The dialogue was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Science and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon (배경훈).
In the dialogue, subject specialists known as for balanced funding in fundamental and basic areas and strengthening an setting for immersion in analysis. They confused the urgency of technology improvement for a man-made intelligence transition and increasing energy and knowledge heart infrastructure. The authorities promised to intently hyperlink a technology administration system via pan-ministerial cooperation centered on a deputy-prime-minister system.
The ministry will compile opinions raised on the hearing and from associated ministries and finalize the master plan via deliberation and decision by the National Science and Technology Advisory Council on the finish of subsequent month.
Bae mentioned, “To complete research and development innovation and science and technology policies that the public can feel, we will continue to communicate with the field even after the hearing and will spare no full support.”