{"id":121149,"date":"2025-08-30T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121149\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:41:28","slug":"south-korea-triples-ai-budget-to-7bn-amid-intense-global-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121149\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea triples AI budget to $7bn amid intense global competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20250829\u3000South Korea triples AI budget\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">South Korean President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s government has proposed a big jump in AI spending. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>KIM JAEWON<\/p>\n<p>August 29, 2025 18:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; South Korea has proposed tripling its artificial intelligence budget next year to more than 10 trillion won ($7.2 billion) as President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s government is keen for the country to adopt the new technology across sectors ranging from robotics and autos to health care and public services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s government has proposed a big jump in AI spending. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[77712,182,150,28,10105,101,10254,77713,25954,23767,77711],"class_list":["post-121149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-7bn","tag-ai","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-competition","tag-economy","tag-global","tag-intense","tag-korea","tag-south","tag-triples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}