The government unveiled to take leadership position in 6G era.

In Aug. 2020, Ministry of Science and ICT announced 「6G R&D Strategy」 in a bid to capture future network initiative, respond to accelerating online, digitalization following COVID-19 and lay the foundation to drive growth in future new business in the face of intensifying global competition for technology.

Setting ‘Lead 6G Era where Imagination Turns into a Reality’ as the vision, MSIT will push forth next-generation technology leadership, standard/value added patents and foundation for research/industries as the three key strategies. In parallel with this, the government aims to commercialize 6G as it did for 5G for the first time in the world and take the leadership role in the global market by fully putting 6G R&D strategies into action.

Upon this foundation, the government set the goal to make Korea the world’s no. 1 country in terms of key standard 6G patents ownership and smart phone market share and no. 2 country in equipment market share, etc.