South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT on Wednesday held the 82nd steering committee assembly of the National Science and Technology Advisory Council and reviewed and authorized the draft second basic plan and 2026 motion plan for R&D on national heritage preservation, management and use.
The National Heritage Administration has drawn up the second basic plan for R&D on national heritage preservation, management and use. It is a five-year complete plan to advance programs for preserving, managing and utilizing national heritage with superior science and expertise, and to cowl the creation of commercial worth.
The plan units out a imaginative and prescient of “new future value for national heritage created through science and technology” and pursues measures together with superior preservation and restoration primarily based on synthetic intelligence (AI) and digital expertise, fostering home and abroad industrial ecosystems and coaching specialists, and strengthening the R&D management system.
To this finish, it would pursue 4 key methods: development of core applied sciences for national heritage primarily based on next-generation digital foundations, creation of a sustainable national heritage industrial ecosystem, stronger strategic R&D targeted on utilizing outcomes, and superior applied sciences for national heritage along with the world.
Under the 2026 motion plan, a complete R&D funding of 14 billion received may also be carried out. The undertaking to develop national heritage preservation and management applied sciences to answer local weather change will obtain 9.6 billion received. Research on a complete of 21 duties is underneath approach, together with 12 new duties. A brand new undertaking to develop clever superior preservation applied sciences for national heritage will likely be allotted 4.4 billion received and is ready to hold out 8 duties.
Park In-kyu (박인규), head of the Science and Technology Innovation Office, mentioned it was a key roadmap to use superior science and expertise akin to AI to the national heritage sector and lead the creation of recent worth past preservation. He mentioned he hoped field-oriented R&D would assist construct an industrial ecosystem and revitalise worldwide expertise exchanges.