The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Yoo In-chon) announced on the fifteenth that it could sign a business agreement with the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST, President Lim Ki-cheol) to ‘construct a man-made intelligence (AI)-based foreign news big data evaluation platform’.
GIST is an establishment equipped with researchers and capabilities, in addition to a high-performance AI computing environment (HPC-AI, 6PF) and national data center (AICA) infrastructure. In accordance with the agreement with the Ministry of Culture, an ‘AI-based foreign media big data evaluation platform’ might be established by 2026.
This project might be promoted in three stages: ▲Establishment of a knowledge collection system in 2024, ▲Establishment of a knowledge evaluation system using AI in 2025, and ▲Establishment of an evaluation and knowledge sharing service system in 2026, and the entire budget has been set at 4.046 billion won.
Evaluation of overseas news over the past 10 years shows that as the recognition of Korean culture has increased, the quantity of foreign media coverage has also increased significantly. The quantity of foreign media coverage in 2023 in comparison with 2012 also increased by greater than 4 times, and while up to now foreign news was focused on North Korea and its nuclear weapons, it has now expanded to all points of Korean society, including cultural content.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Culture has established a foreign news big data evaluation platform using AI to offer multi-faceted evaluation tools reminiscent of ▲content classification, ▲subject extraction, keyword relationship evaluation, and emotional comparison evaluation.
The Ministry of Culture plans to make use of this platform as a core decision-making system for the International Cultural Promotion Policy Office and as a government-wide support system to support the decision-making of key policy makers across the federal government.
Yong Ho-seong, Director of the International Culture Promotion Policy Office, said, “Use the factitious intelligence evaluation platform to create a positive image of the Republic of Korea and establish the factitious intelligence evaluation platform as a core system crucial for Korea to play its role as a central country within the international community. “I’ll try my best,” he said.
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