- 24일부터 공고 시작, 공모설명회(4.2)도 개최… 사업당 최대 5억 실증사업비 지원 □Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport(장관 박상우)는 보다 다양한 스마트도시 기술·서비스의 규제완화 및 해소를 지원하기 위해 3월 24일부터 규제샌드박스 공모를 추진한다.   ㅇ 작년 ‘방범·방재분야’에 이어 올해는 스마트도시의 다양한 분야 중 ①주거·시설, ②에너지·환경, ③기타 분야의 혁신 기술·서비스를 대상으로 4월 17일부터 4월 24일까지 공모 접수를 진행한다.   □스마트도시 규제샌드박스는 ’20년 제도 [...]

- Starting on the 17th, open for public offering divided into 4 business types… Up to 10 locations to be selected - First public offering this year for the ‘Smart City Specialized Complex Development Project’ to foster new industries □ The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (Minister Park Sang-woo) will hold a public offering for the “2025 Smart City Development and Expansion Project,” which local governments and companies will work together to create by incorporating smart technologies such as artificial intelligence into cities to solve various urban problems and vitalize the smart city industry, starting on March 3. ㅇ This year, the ‘Base Smart City Development Project’, ‘Small and Medium-sized Smart City Development Project’, and ‘Smart City [...]

- 120GW AI training center and ESS complex to be built on 3 million pyeong site - - Governor Kim Young-rok meets with AI big tech CEOs, including Alphabet's chairman, and asks for investment - On the 26th (local time), Jeollanam-do signed a business agreement with FIR HILLS, Seonamhaean Enterprise City Development Co., Ltd., and Haenam-gun at the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco, USA, to build the 'Solar City AI Super Cluster Hub'. The signing ceremony was attended by Governor Kim Young-rok of Jeollanam-do, Myung Hyeon-gwan, Haenam-gun governor, and Amin Badr-El-Din of FIR HILLS [...]

- Team Korea dispatched to the Philippines for development cooperation in New Clark City - NAACC (Director Hyung-ryeol Kim) led the 'Philippine Team Korea (hereinafter referred to as Team Korea)' delegation to visit the Philippines from February 2 to 25 to help with urban development in the Philippines and support the market entry of our companies. NAACC established Team Korea in January to support collaboration between the Base Conversion and Development Authority (hereinafter referred to as BCDA), the main urban development agency in the Philippines, and Korean companies, and currently 26 organizations are participating and operating. [...]

- 25 (Tue), Global Infrastructure, Construction, Smart City (PIS) Phase 2 Fund Investment Agreement Signing Ceremony Held - Actively supporting 'Team Korea' overseas investment and development projects through joint investment by the government, public institutions, and the private sector □ The government and public institutions will create a 'Global Plant, Construction, Smart City (PIS*) Phase 1.1 Fund (hereinafter referred to as the "PIS Phase 2 Fund")' worth 2 trillion won in cooperation with the private sector. * Global Plant, Infrastructure, Smart city Fund ㅇ Through this, we will actively support our companies' overseas investment and development projects and promote overseas [...]

 Announcement of 8 metaverse convergence projects to support and foster metaverse industrial convergence in the province - Up to KRW 1 million per project (single-year project) per year, applications accepted until March 1 - Support for verification of advanced technology convergence such as digital twins, collaborative robots, and AI-based spatial computing Gyeonggi Province and the Economic and Science Promotion Agency (hereinafter referred to as the Agency) will participate in the '3 Metaverse Industrial Convergence Support and Verification' project with the goal of creating innovative results through convergence between metaverse (VR/AR) and existing industries. [...]

- Daejeon City-MOLIT-LH “Mobile Future City Support Center” held, collecting opinions from residents - - Establishing the city’s basic plan… Goal of designating a pilot district in the first half of 26 - On the 19th, Daejeon City, together with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport and Korea Land and Housing Corporation (hereinafter referred to as LH), held the “Mobile Future City Support Center” in the seminar room on the 3rd floor of the city hall to directly listen to residents’ opinions and provide customized consulting for the smooth promotion of the old planned city redevelopment project. This event was held in the special redevelopment zone area among the target areas of the Daejeon old planned city redevelopment basic plan establishment [...]

'AI Utilization and Expansion Plan through Fostering AI Startups' Announced... KRW 5 trillion in Support for AI, Semiconductors, etc. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups has decided to increase the AI ​​utilization rate of SMEs to 7000% by 2027 and foster five global AI unicorns. To this end, 50 specialized manufacturing AI companies will be designated and intensively supported with up to KRW 5 billion in funds, manpower, and sales channel expansion per company, and support for AI startups will be strengthened to focus KRW 100 trillion in innovative growth fields such as AI and semiconductors. [...]

The Office for Government Policy Coordination announced the first list of tasks for the government-led 'planned regulatory sandbox'. The government will select five planned regulatory sandbox tasks to promote new industry growth and vitality of the people's economy this year and implement them in earnest. The Office for Government Policy Coordination announced the first list of tasks for the planned regulatory sandbox discovered by the inter-ministerial team on the 1th. The existing regulatory sandbox is a method of granting special exceptions only to regulations requested by individual companies and improving the relevant system, but the planned regulatory sandbox is a method of comprehensively [...]

- Established the nation's first UN-SDGs-based 2040 basic strategy... Adopted as the highest policy direction - - Established 5 major strategies and 17 goals based on leading achievements; former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also supported -  Jeju Special Self-Governing Province has established a long-term development strategy based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) for the first time among local governments in Korea and adopted it as the highest policy direction of the provincial administration. ❍ Jeju Province is declaring carbon neutrality by 2035, expanding renewable energy, and popularizing electric vehicles in the field of sustainable development [...]

- Announcement of 2 key strategies for fostering the AI ​​industry at 'AI SEOUL 11' on Tuesday, February 2025 - (Talent / Infrastructure) Training 7 AI talents annually, creation of AI 'Seoul AI Tech City' 1 times the size of the AI ​​hub - (Investment) Creation of 'AI' field with investment for 10~25, creation of 26 billion won scale... expansion of GPU server support - (Industry convergence/globalization) Reorganization of future cutting-edge industries centered on AI, cooperation and attraction with global academia and industry ↑ [...]

The Ulsan City announced that it will hold the Information Committee at the International Conference Room at 2025 PM on February 2 to deliberate and finalize the '2 Information Implementation Plan' and the '10nd Big Data Utilization Basic Plan'. The meeting will be attended by about 3 people including the Ulsan City Planning and Coordination Director Kim No-kyung, who is the chairperson, and the Information Committee members. The meeting will proceed with explanations by Ulsan City officials on each agenda item followed by deliberation and discussion among the attending committee members. The '2025 Information Implementation Plan' to be deliberated and decided on this day is 'Intelligent [...]

Establishment of 6 Gyeonggi AI clusters - AI industry base, talent development, investment attraction in the tens of trillions Opening of Gyeonggi AI Data Center (second half of 25), priority promotion of public, medical, and welfare projects as AI citizen services Establishment of Gyeonggi-do creative AI platform - implementation of AI innovation administration, improvement of work efficiency with added value of KRW 60 billion per year Establishment of the first local government AI bureau in 2024 (July 24.7.18, 24.7.18), enactment of basic artificial intelligence ordinance (July 24.10.24, 24.10.25), declaration of AI humanomics vision at Gyeonggi Global Transformation Forum (October XNUMX, XNUMX), holding of Korea AI International Film Festival (KAIFF) (October XNUMX, XNUMX), etc. to promote AI development [...]

-NAACC, 22 organizations including public institutions and private companies participate in launching 'Philippine Team Korea' NAACC (Director Kim Hyung-ryeol) will utilize its know-how in building happy cities and its international network to support our companies in developing the Philippine urban development market. On the 23rd, NAACC announced that it has formed Team Korea for advancing into the Philippines and held a launching ceremony. NAACC signed an MOU with the Philippines Base Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) in September of last year and is promoting cooperation related to urban development. BCDA is promoting cooperation related to 'the second Manila', New Clark City, etc. [...]

- Installing 8 remote metering terminals with an investment of KRW 4 million this year… Building a smart water metering system in stages - Real-time water usage check with smart metering… Accurately and quickly managing water bill leakage - Mayor Lee Dong-hwan “Strengthening smart metering system monitoring to improve water supply management efficiency” Goyang Special City (Mayor Lee Dong-hwan) has installed remote metering terminals in water meters throughout the city to manage water bills and water leakage risks more accurately and quickly, and has also activated a winter water meter freezing prevention response system to provide citizens with stable water services. Goyang Mayor Lee Dong-hwan said, “Smart [...]

- Tongyeong City K-Drone Special Delivery Service to be implemented from Saturday, the 25th - Tongyeong City (Mayor Cheon Yeong-gi) announced that it will implement the "2025 Tongyeong City K-Drone Special Delivery Service" from Saturday, the 25th to increase the convenience of island residents during the Lunar New Year holiday period in island regions with weak logistics. Tongyeong City's K-Drone Delivery Service will begin with the "2024 Drone Demonstration City Construction Project" hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, and will provide drone delivery service to 3 affiliated island villages from three drone delivery centers in Sanyang, Yokji, and Hansan areas. In particular, the drone delivery service will be operated during this Lunar New Year holiday period as well to deliver ingredients for holiday food and delivery food that is difficult to find on the island, providing a special experience to families gathered for the holiday. • Special delivery schedule for the Lunar New Year holidays: Sanyang area (15th, 25th), Yokji area (28th), Hansan area (26th) • Delivery time: 27:10~00:17 • Delivery items: Post office No. 00 box size (under 4kg) • Delivery order: K-Drone Delivery app or 5-010-4953 Choi Deuk-yoon, head of the Information and Communications Division, said, “I am glad that this project can alleviate the inconvenience of islanders even a little, and we plan to expand the delivery area so that more islanders can benefit from MOLIT’s K-Drone Delivery commercialization support project.” Meanwhile, the delivery infrastructure will be utilized to create a safer and cleaner Tongyeong sea through environmental monitoring such as forest fire detection, crackdown on illegal incineration, and marine waste dumping, as well as patrol flights in preparation for maritime incidents and accidents. Source: Tongyeong City

◈ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport The 'Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Construction Project', a government-subsidized project (KRW 65 billion), has been completed, and the 'Smart Traffic Signal Operation System' will be fully implemented at major intersections starting in February ◈ ▲Real-time signal information disclosure ▲Expanded construction of smart intersections ▲Smart responsive signals ▲Real-time signal control ▲Emergency vehicle priority signal system, etc. are expected to provide traffic services that citizens can experience by utilizing traffic data ◈ In addition, the 'Sea Bridge Integrated Traffic Information Management System' has been established for the first time in the country, connecting the sea bridges between Gwangandaegyo Bridge and Geoga-daero and [...]

- Strengthening mutual cooperation for the completion of the administrative capital on the 22nd, etc. - Sejong Special Self-Governing City (Mayor Choi Min-ho) signed a 'Mutual Cooperation Business Agreement (MOU) for the Development of a Happy City' with Korea Land and Housing Corporation (President Lee Han-joon) at 22:9 am on the 50nd in the Sejong Room of the City Hall. This business agreement was prepared to smoothly resolve major pending issues that arose during the construction of Sejong City and to strengthen the organic cooperation system for sustainable urban development. According to this agreement, the two organizations will ▲ revitalize commercial districts ▲ smart city [...]

- Start of call for proposals for overseas smart city planning and solution overseas demonstration projects □ The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (Minister Park Sang-woo) will start accepting applications for the 2025 “K-City Network Global Cooperation Program” project, which supports the global advancement of Korean smart cities, on January 1. ㅇ The call for proposals is for smart city planning projects targeting overseas cities and overseas demonstration projects of smart technologies owned by domestic companies. This year, a total of approximately 21 overseas cities are planned to be selected. [...]

- Expanding hydrogen vehicle supply for '2050 carbon neutrality'... Apply for passenger vehicle subsidy from Monday, January 1.20 - 160 hydrogen passenger vehicles supplied... 7,000 million won in subsidies out of approximately 2,950 million won in purchase price - Generous additional benefits such as tax reduction (660 million won) and toll exemption when purchasing hydrogen vehicles - City, "We will be reborn as a 'leading city in hydrogen mobility' by expanding eco-friendly vehicles and expanding infrastructure" □ Seoul City is implementing a hydrogen [...]