Issue Industry-specific data and trust frameworks for vertical AI in Korea

Summary

The report points out that as firms focus on raising the productivity of specific tasks, demand for industry-tailored AI solutions is surging. Access to specialised data is listed as a social issue for this trend, since vertical AI depends on domain data that is often scarce or sensitive. Korea's policy direction is to set an industry-specialised global AI leadership strategy and build a vertical AI framework that reflects distinctive industrial and regional characteristics. It also plans data value assessment and quality certification models for each industry domain to promote safe data use. Because AI is spreading into sensitive fields such as medicine and finance, the plan calls for AI ethics research guidelines to secure accountability, ethics and transparency.