{"id":100820,"date":"2025-11-04T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/south-korean-president-calls-for-aggressive-ai-spending-in-budget-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:08:13","slug":"south-korean-president-calls-for-aggressive-ai-spending-in-budget-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/south-korean-president-calls-for-aggressive-ai-spending-in-budget-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean president calls for aggressive AI spending in budget speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SEOUL, South Korea — <\/span>South Korean President Lee Jae Myung<\/a> on Tuesday known as for tripling the federal government spending on initiatives for increasing synthetic intelligence infrastructure and know-how in a finances speech.<\/p>\n

Lee additionally known as for lawmakers to approve a deliberate 8.2% enhance in protection spending subsequent 12 months, which he mentioned would assist modernize the navy\u2019s weapons programs and cut back its reliance on the USA, because the allies\u2019 navy chiefs met in Seoul for annual security talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most conservative opposition lawmakers boycotted Lee\u2019s speech amid an ongoing rift over a legal investigation into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s speech got here after South Korea final week hosted the leaders of main Pacific Rim nations for this 12 months\u2019s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings<\/a>, which his authorities used to showcase its ambitions for AI<\/a> and advance an effort at a commerce take care of the U.S.<\/p>\n

In his speech on the Nationwide Meeting, Lee highlighted his APEC diplomacy and a bilateral assembly with U.S. President Donald Trump, which he mentioned eased uncertainties going through South Korea\u2019s trade-dependent economic system by securing decrease tariffs on cars and pc chips, two of the nation\u2019s key exports.<\/p>\n

He mentioned the nation was nonetheless going through a crucial second for \u201cnationwide survival\u201d amid fast adjustments within the international commerce order and a \u201clarge, transformative wave of AI.\u201d <\/p>\n

Lee mentioned the proposed finances of 728 trillion received ($506 billion), which might symbolize an all-time excessive for presidency spending, could be the nation\u2019s \u201cfirst finances to open the AI period.\u201d <\/p>\n

He known as on the liberal-led legislature to approve 10.1 trillion received ($6.9 billion) in AI-related spending \u2014 greater than triple this 12 months\u2019s stage \u2014 to advance the nation\u2019s AI computing and manufacturing capabilities, with a selected deal with industries comparable to semiconductors, cars, shipbuilding and robotics.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimply as President Park Chung-hee paved the freeway for industrialization and President Kim Dae-jung constructed the freeway for the knowledge age, we should now assemble the freeway for the AI period to open a way forward for progress and progress,\u201d Lee mentioned, referring to main growth drives underneath Park\u2019s dictatorship within the Nineteen Sixties and \u201970s and Kim\u2019s presidency from 1998 to 2003, which centered on increasing South Korea\u2019s web infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Lee mentioned South Korean corporations would have little problem securing the chips for his or her AI initiatives, citing a deal for Nvidia<\/a>, whose GPUs energy a lot of the global AI industry<\/a>, to provide 260,000 graphics processing items for AI infrastructure initiatives with main South Korean companies and the federal government. The deal was introduced following a gathering throughout APEC between Lee and Jensen Huang, the Silicon Valley firm\u2019s chief government.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t instantly clear when Nvidia \u2014 which agreed to ship 50,000 GPUs every to the federal government, chipmakers Samsung and SK, and automaker Hyundai, and one other 60,000 to web firm Naver \u2014 will ship these chips. Huang informed reporters in South Korea that AI knowledge facilities and energy networks should first be established earlier than the corporate can start delivery the GPUs. <\/p>\n

Considerations have grown over the initiatives’ future after Trump mentioned aboard Air Drive One on Monday that solely U.S. clients ought to have entry to Nvidia\u2019s newest Blackwell AI chips, declaring, \u201cWe don\u2019t give that chip to different folks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee proposed a protection finances of 66.3 trillion received ($46 billion) subsequent 12 months, which he mentioned can be centered on modernizing the navy\u2019s weapons programs, together with by the adoption of AI applied sciences, to make the armed forces extra self-reliant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of nationwide pleasure that South Korea, which spends 1.4 occasions North Korea\u2019s annual GDP on protection and is perceived because the world\u2019s fifth strongest navy, continues to rely on others for its safety,\u201d Lee mentioned.<\/p>\n

Throughout his assembly with Trump, Lee reaffirmed South Korea\u2019s dedication to extend protection spending and known as for U.S. help for South Korean efforts to amass nuclear-powered submarines. <\/p>\n

Trump later mentioned on social media that the USA will share closely-held know-how to permit South Korea to construct a nuclear-powered submarine, and that the vessel can be constructed within the Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia, which was purchased final 12 months by South Korea\u2019s Hanwha Group.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s speech got here as U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth and South Korean Protection Minister Ahn Gyu-back had been assembly in Seoul for the allies\u2019 annual safety talks. The assembly is predicted to deal with key alliance points, together with South Korea\u2019s protection spending commitments and the implementation of a plan to switch wartime operational management to a joint command led by a South Korean common with a U.S. deputy. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n