Korea puts KRW250 billion behind free national AI service as frontier-model fund takes shape

DIGITIMESSeptember 10, 2026en

South Korea's science ministry has budgeted KRW250 billion (US$184.6 million) for 2027 to run "AI for all," a state-funded program that aims to give every citizen free access to chatbots and AI agents built at least 50% on domestic AI models—a spending commitment that turns Seoul's sovereign-AI ambitions into a dedicated budget commitment and arrives alongside a far larger KRW4.7 trillion initiative to build a homegrown frontier model.

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