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Ministry of Science and ICT

South Korean government ministry that signed the MOU with AMD, recommends the CoE site, and aims to turn domestic test cases into a global reference architecture.

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  • Ministry of Science and ICT
  • Ministry of Science and ICT (Korea)
  • Ministry of Science and ICT (South Korea)
  • science ministry

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South Korea puts 512 GPUs behind unlimited free AI for every citizen

Three consortia will run a free tier with no usage caps on state-supplied hardware, under a rule that Korean models carry at least half the load. The ministry has published neither the cost nor a target for uptake.

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Evidence60
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Hype gap+40
Incentives65
Confidence58
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Seoul's 80 percent quota turns Korean model builders into each other's wholesale customers

Seoul is buying distribution rather than compute. The government is handing operators a donated chip grant, has set an 80 percent domestic serving floor, and hasn't published what the programme will cost - all in a country where roughly 1.8 million people pay for any AI at all.

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Operator 37%
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Investor 38%

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Evidence55
Adoption28
Hype gap+38
Incentives58
Confidence57