Strengthen Network to Implement MOU on Technology Prosperity between South Korea and the U.S
![Ryu Je-myung, the second vice minister of science and technology information and communication (right), and Michael Needham, the U.S. State Department advisor, are taking a commemorative photo after meeting at the conference room of the National Science and Technology Advisory Council at Kyobo Building in Gwanghwamun, Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the afternoon of the 23rd. [Photo = Ministry of Science and ICT]](https://wimg.mk.co.kr/news/cms/202602/23/news-p.v1.20260223.5a13e3c626af4a09a0d679a4de654770_P1.jpg)
The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 23rd that Ryu Je-myung, the second vice minister, met with Michael Needham, an adviser to the U.S. State Department, to debate methods to cooperate in science and expertise and digital between the two international locations.
The assembly was organized to debate follow-up measures to the settlement between the two governments on the twentieth to launch a working group referred to as the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Technology Prosperity between South Korea and the United States.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyounghun had a bilateral assembly with Michael Krazios, President Donald Trump’s science and expertise aide and White House Science and Technology Policy Director, at the India AI Impact Summit and agreed to launch a working group.
At the assembly, Vice Minister Ryu expressed his willingness to implement it as quickly as doable and requested for the assist of advisor Needham. In addition, the two international locations agreed to examine the present standing of cooperation in high-tech fields comparable to synthetic intelligence (AI) and hyperlink coverage will to sensible outcomes via newly launched working teams.
Based on the outcomes of the working group’s operation, Vice Minister Ryu referred to as for lively cooperation from Needham advisors to carry the “12th Korea-U.S. Joint Committee on Science and Technology” inside this 12 months, stressing that strategic science and expertise cooperation between the two international locations ought to play an lively function as a bridge.
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