Nationwide AI System Launches to Revolutionize Public Services and Governance

August 25, 2026
Nationwide AI System Launches to Revolutionize Public Services and Governance
  • A nationwide, 24-hour AI counseling and public service system will be rolled out across welfare, safety, taxes, agriculture, and food, with an AI National Secretary coordinating major services and enabling access via private platforms like Kakao and Naver.

  • Public AI services will be unified under the AI National Secretary, expanding platforms and partnerships to broaden reach, including enhanced Government24 and Benefit Informer and collaborations with Kakao and Naver.

  • The plan includes mandatory AI training for civil servants, aiming to train about 20,000 public officials as advanced AI specialists by 2030, roughly 2 percent of government staff.

  • A pan-government data pipeline will connect institutional data, alongside opening the Public Data Top 100 and instituting a public AI impact assessment and ethics standards to address privacy and accountability.

  • An intelligent public office system called OnAI will be deployed to all 47 central ministries by December to assist legal review, drafting, and other workflows, complemented by an AI Government Laboratory and a Public Repository for sharing AI outputs.

  • The public service culture will shift toward AI-driven operations through OnAI, with an AI Government Laboratory and a GitLab-style Public Repository to disseminate AI outputs.

  • The strategy, announced at a Cabinet meeting, centers on using AI to reflect public opinion and guide public services in a citizen-centered framework.

  • An annual competition will showcase civil servants’ use of AI, with AI-enabled services including senior healthcare support and personalized job-seeking and startup information.

  • New AI platforms, Square for All and Everyone’s Square, will enable citizen proposals, policy discussions, and AI-assisted policy analysis with data preprocessing for retrieval-augmented generation.

  • AI-powered counseling and information services will be available to the public, with AI integrated into civil servants’ daily workflows to boost efficiency.

  • AI tools will support law reviews, report drafting, building permits, police field work, weather forecasting, and procurement documents, as part of the broad rollout of OnAI to central agencies by year-end.

  • The government unveiled an AI-driven democratic government strategy to embed AI across national administration, aiming to improve daily citizen services and policy development.

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