The National Agency for Technology and Standards of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on the twenty third that it had held a gathering with the ‘National Standards Coordinator’, a personal standards expert, at Lotte Hotel Seoul, presided over by Director Jin Jong-wook, to debate strategies for developing high-tech industrial standards.
The National Standards Institute has been operating the National Standards Coordinator system since 2011 to advertise standards development led by the private sector.
The National Standards Coordinator is a personal expert with high industrial field experience and standardization capability. It supports the establishment of standardization plans by the federal government, and carries out standard development project task planning and standards forum activities. Currently, it’s lively in six fields that require securing super-gap competitiveness: artificial intelligence (AI), energy, autonomous vehicles, low-carbon technology, electrical and electronic systems, and repair industries.
This meeting was prepared to envision the national standardization strategy in an environment where competition for global technological supremacy is spreading into standards.
Recently, countries around the globe are announcing industrial policies linked to standards to reinforce the competitiveness of high-tech industries. In Korea, the ‘Industrial Transformation Super Gap Project’ was established with the goal of super-gap growth through technological innovation and standardization.
Accordingly, the participants checked the standards plan established by the National Standards Coordinator together with the usual trends in each field at home and abroad, and discussed future plans to reinforce the competitiveness of high-tech industries using international standards.
Jin Jong-wook, Director of the National Institute of Technology and Standards, said, “Using standards as a method to secure the initiative in high-tech hegemony competition signifies that the importance of standards has increased that much.” We’ll proceed to support the acquisition,” he said.
Reporter Lim Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com