A wave of amendments is poised to unlock opportunities for IT service firms in data integration, standardization, cloud infrastructure, data governance, and AI platform construction, broadening both public-sector and cross-sector projects.

South Korea has passed three AI and Data Innovation Acts—an AI Basic Act amendment, a Data Industry Act amendment, and a Special Act on Promotion of R&D Zones—to broaden reuse of government-funded AI training data and to connect public and private data platforms.

An integrated platform will standardize and connect data location information, enabling users to locate data across platforms and access it via the holding institution, while addressing data standardization, freshness, and interoperability.

Samsung SDS could benefit from its prior AI-driven data integration experience, including an AI-powered parliamentary support platform that integrates data from hundreds of institutions.

KT views data for AI as a core AX strategy and stands to gain from the integrated data platform through growing demand for data, cloud, and AI services in both public and private sectors.

The government will promote linkages between platforms and may require cooperation from public institutions and private entities, with MSIT providing technical and financial support where needed.

The AI training data linked to government funding will be funneled through an integrated training-data provision system, curbing data hoarding after projects and promoting reuse.

Amendments to the Special Act on Promotion of R&D Zones speed up regulatory sandbox approvals for AI, robotics, autonomous driving, and digital-health innovations, cutting testing times from roughly 90–150 days to about 30–60 days.

The Data Industry Act amendment introduces an integrated data platform concept to connect location and availability information across around 200 data platforms, enabling standardized data discovery without merging all data into a single repository.

LG CNS’s strong footprint in AI and cloud services, plus ongoing AX initiatives in the public sector, positions it well to win from broader public-data integration and AI platform opportunities.