{"id":70784,"date":"2025-08-15T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70784\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:50:09","slug":"south-koreas-lee-touts-ai-to-fix-manufacturing-slide-but-skeptics-sound-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70784\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Lee touts AI to fix manufacturing slide but skeptics sound alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20250815 PA South Korea manufacturing jobs img\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">Used machinery, right,\u00a0from manufacturers who went bust shows the challenge President\u00a0Lee Jae Myung faces in trying to use AI to revive a sector that was once\u00a0the backbone of South Korea&#8217;s\u00a0economy. A 15% tariff on exports to the U.S. adds to the headache. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Steven Borowiec and\u00a0Reuters)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/policy-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">$73bn AI push a priority for president; labor leaders urge better factory wages, conditions<\/p>\n<p>STEVEN BOROWIEC<\/p>\n<p>August 15, 2025 06:22 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Used machinery, right,\u00a0from manufacturers who went bust shows the challenge President\u00a0Lee Jae Myung faces in trying to use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[62,44266,45,49,48,46,11322,44262,3039,1688,44265,44264,42738,5593,44263],"class_list":["post-70784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-alarm","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-fix","tag-koreas","tag-lee","tag-manufacturing","tag-skeptics","tag-slide","tag-sound","tag-south","tag-touts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}