The South Korea Ministry of Economy & Finance has launched an AI-based work innovation initiative built around a new internal learning group, a six-member private-sector advisory panel and regular demonstrations of AI use cases to senior officials. The measures are intended to build AI capability across the ministry and apply it directly to fiscal and economic policymaking and administrative work. The internal group, AX Jiphyeonjeon 2.0, is designed to move beyond theory by identifying automation tasks, developing tools, studying how ministry data can be used, visiting leading AI companies and supporting entries for the government innovation competition, with ministry funding and recognition for strong cases. The advisory panel will operate for one year, providing AI training and supporting ministry activities including mentoring and judging a hackathon from June 10 to 12. The ministry is also making presentations of internal AI training results a recurring item at expanded senior staff meetings, with recent examples including automatic Korean and English card-news generation from press releases, automated drafting and comparison tools for tax law amendments in HWPX, and a tool that classifies press releases against government performance evaluation criteria.
Ministry of Economy & Finance (South Korea)2026-06-01
South Korea Ministry of Economy & Finance launches internal AI learning group and six-member advisory panel for workflow innovation
South Korea’s Ministry of Economy & Finance has launched an artificial intelligence-based work innovation initiative to build internal AI capability and apply it to fiscal and economic policymaking and administrative work. The programme combines an internal learning group, a one-year private-sector advisory panel and recurring demonstrations of AI use cases to senior officials, including tools for automated content generation, tax law drafting support and classification of press releases.