AI TRENDS | South Korea’s FSC Plans to Expand Public Growth Fund to 200 Trillion Won

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) plans to expand the operating size of its Public Growth Fund from 150 trillion won to 200 trillion won and broaden its investment scope to include sectors such as aerospace. According to Odaily, a policy briefing said the FSC will raise the fund’s annual operating scale to 40 trillion won from 30 trillion won. The briefing said the fund’s total operating scale over the next five years is expected to reach 200 trillion won. Support targets will be expanded beyond 12 major high-tech industries currently covered: semiconductors, displays, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, vaccines, robotics, future mobility, defense, secondary batteries, hydrogen, critical minerals, and content industries. The FSC plans to extend support to emerging strategic industries including aerospace. The briefing added that long-term growth funding will focus on three priority projects: semiconductors, artificial intelligence data centers, and physical AI.