Gyeonggi-do Governor Kim Dong-yeon said, “Let's make Gyeonggi-do a startup paradise,” pledging to create more than 20 unicorn companies in five years. On the 26th, Gyeonggi-do held the inauguration ceremony of the Gyeonggi-do Startup Council at the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center International Conference Hall in Pangyo. This is the first time a Gyeonggi-do-level startup council has been launched. More than 600 startup officials attended the event, where the council was declared inaugurated and 11 executives were presented with certificates of appointment. “When I met with unicorn c
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on the 26th that it held the 'AI Super Gap Challenge Kick-off Day' event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul to promote the commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) startups through demand-based collaboration between global giants such as LG Electronics and Qualcomm and promising AI startups in Korea. Recently, the emergence of China's Deepseek, which launched a low-cost and high-performance large-scale language model (LLM model) in the global market, has intensified the competition for hegemony in AI technology between the United States and
The visit was attended by Belmont Superintendent Jill Geiser, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers, and Principal Isaac Taylor. Lim toured the school with about 10 Korean students from Belmont High School and observed an anatomy class where students dissected a blue crab to learn about the structure of crustaceans, a math class where students used five dots to complete a graph, and an English class where students debated whether students should be allowed to do assignments via ChatGPT. The best feature of Belmont High School is that students can choose their own clas
Jeollanam-do signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Stanford Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Energy and Technology, and SFR-Stock Farm Road in San Francisco, USA, on the 26th (local time) to support the successful construction of the world's largest 15 trillion won ($15 billion) Solar City AI Supercluster Hub. The signing ceremony was attended by Kim Young-rok, Governor of South Jeolla Province; Amin Badr-El-Din, Co-Chair of Stock Farm Road; Michael Lepech, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Stanford University; and Park Jin-ho, Acting President of Korea Advanced Institute