{"id":173476,"date":"2025-12-31T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/south-korean-president-pledges-expanded-regional-ai-energy-projects-in-2026-mlex\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:55:09","slug":"south-korean-president-pledges-expanded-regional-ai-energy-projects-in-2026-mlex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/south-korean-president-pledges-expanded-regional-ai-energy-projects-in-2026-mlex\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean president pledges expanded regional AI, energy projects in 2026 | MLex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2425724\/south-korean-president-pledges-expanded-regional-ai-energy-projects-in-2026\">South Korean president pledges expanded regional AI, energy projects in 2026 | MLex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2425724\/south-korean-president-pledges-expanded-regional-ai-energy-projects-in-2026\">https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2425724\/south-korean-president-pledges-expanded-regional-ai-energy-projects-in-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2025-12-31 15:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mlex.com\">www.mlex.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Commitment to Fairness<\/strong>: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pledged to eliminate unfair competition and expedient practices in AI and energy projects, enforcing strict fair-competition regulations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Provincial Support Policies<\/strong>: The administration aims to provide substantial and bolder support, particularly for semiconductor, AI, and renewable energy projects in regions farther from the capital.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>2025 Foundations for Growth<\/strong>: Lee praised the groundwork laid in 2025, including securing large quantities of AI-powered GPU chips and adopting an AI-supporting government budget, acting as a foundation for new growth.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Government Initiatives<\/strong>: Emphasis on decisively addressing and eliminating lingering unfair practices that hinder fair competition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Support for Remote Areas<\/strong>: Assurance that non-capital regions will receive more significant governmental backing for AI and energy projects.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Announcements through New Year Address<\/strong>: The policy statements were delivered in his New Year address to the public, signaling transparency and a clear commitment to change.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president pledges expanded regional AI, energy projects in 2026 | MLex https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/mlex\/artificial-intelligence\/articles\/2425724\/south-korean-president-pledges-expanded-regional-ai-energy-projects-in-2026 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mlex.com\/images\/.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173478,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173476\/revisions\/173478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}