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Most practices in: South Korea (77)
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT granted ICONLOOP regulatory-sandbox approval in December 2020 to pilot a blockchain-based mobile driver's license, building …
South Korea's Clova CareCall places AI-driven phone check-ins with ~50,000 isolated elderly across 150+ institutions. Peer-reviewed studies show depression improvements and a …
Seoul removed an elevated expressway and daylighted a buried stream (2003–05). Reported results: 3.3–5.9°C cooler than a parallel road, PM10 down 35%, …
Since 2014 South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups has subsidised smart-factory conversions for SMEs. Government survey data and an independent matched-sample …
Korea's founding Special R&D Zone (est. 1973): 29 government institutes and 5 universities generate over 7,000 patents a year and account for …
South Korea's original Special R&D Zone, formally designated in 2005 around KAIST, ETRI and other public institutes in Daejeon. Its 2022 survey …
Pangyo Techno Valley (est. 2005), 20 km from Seoul, hosts 1,700+ companies including Naver, Kakao, Samsung and LG, employs 79,000 workers, and …
South Korea criminalized possession of illegal sexual footage and deepfake sex content after the 2020 "Nth Room" scandal, and expanded a victim-support …
Ahead of its April 2024 general election, South Korea's NEC ran a task force under a new deepfake ban and detected 129 …
Since 2017, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has funded small-scale neighbourhood renewal at hundreds of sites as an alternative …
Seoul's 2012 ordinance created city-certified 'sharing organisations', growing from 37 in 2013 to 92 by 2015. Car-sharing membership rose over 10-fold in …
In 2019 KAIST's tech-transfer office earned KRW 10.18 billion (about $8.6m) in royalties from 56 licensing contracts — the highest of any …
Korea Land & Housing Corporation's AI-and-IoT monitoring system flags missing hard hats, falls and danger-zone breaches on 311 construction sites; LH reports …
South Korea's MFDS built SAFE-i24, an automated electronic document-screening system for imports of low-risk, repeat food shipments. Piloted in 2022–2023, a 2024 …
Before agencies publish a dataset on Korea's Open Data Portal, a diagnostic service scores it on five criteria — understandability, processing ease, …
Seoul's Data Hub uses a retrieval-augmented generative-AI chatbot to let residents search 8,100+ open datasets in plain Korean; in its first ~2 …
Seoul-based Dot Incorporation built the first commercialised electromagnetic tactile display, letting blind and low-vision users feel braille text and graphics refreshed in …
Selected in April 2025 as one of 14 regions in Korea's Local Government Visa pilot, Busan relaxed visa rules for international students …
Seoul deployed S-DoT, a network of 1,100 IoT sensors measuring 17 variables every 2 minutes since 2019; a 2020-21 analysis found downtown …
A state-planned tech district outside Seoul grew from 88 firms in 2011 to 1,803 companies and KRW 202.4 trillion in combined revenue …
Since 2011, this Gyeonggi Province-developed tech cluster near Seoul has grown from 88 to over 1,600 resident companies and KRW 120+ trillion …
KAIST became the first Korean university to earn over 10 billion KRW in a single year of technology-licensing royalties (10.18bn KRW, 56 …
Korea's labour ministry and KEIS built AI into Work-Net: 'The Work' (2018) matched ~7,600 people to jobs in a year, cutting search …
In May 2024, South Korea's National Tax Service became the first agency to run an AI voice consultant on its 126 tax …
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