{"id":1032849,"date":"2026-09-03T07:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032849"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:57:40","slug":"south-korean-finance-minister-nominee-vows-to-advance-ai-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/south-korean-finance-minister-nominee-vows-to-advance-ai-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean finance minister nominee vows to advance AI projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s finance minister nominee vowed on Wednesday to quickly proceed with &#8220;mega projects&#8221; for AI investments and actively utilise policy capacity from a global chip boom. <\/p>\n<p>The pledge \u200cfollows \u2060the government&#8217;s \u2060unveiling on Tuesday of its most aggressive fiscal spending plan on record for next year, which includes creating a fund for long-term investments, to strengthen the country&#8217;s technological edge amid the global \u2060AI race. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The \u200cgovernment) will swiftly advance three \u200bmega \u200bprojects to generate large-scale investments \u2060and growth power,&#8221; Lee Hyoung-il said \u200bin a meeting with reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s finance minister nominee vowed on Wednesday to quickly proceed with &#8220;mega projects&#8221; for AI investments and actively utilise policy capacity from a global chip boom. The pledge \u200cfollows \u2060the government&#8217;s \u2060unveiling on Tuesday of its most aggressive fiscal spending plan on record for next year, which includes creating a fund for long-term investments, to strengthen the country&#8217;s technological edge amid the global \u2060AI race. &#8220;(The \u200cgovernment) will swiftly advance three \u200bmega \u200bprojects to generate large-scale investments \u2060and growth power,&#8221; Lee Hyoung-il said \u200bin a meeting with reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032873,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032849\/revisions\/1032873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}