AI Talent Demonstration Startup Package
Funds Korean startups hiring trained AI talent to solve a defined product, service, or operating problem.
Korean startups can receive up to KRW 200 million after hiring trained AI talent to solve a specific business or technology problem. This pilot phase of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ Startup Package links graduates of government AI training with startups that need skills they cannot recruit easily. Each applicant defines the problem it wants the new team member to address, such as improving a…
Covers AI talent matching, hiring, product and service improvement, and commercialization work against a startup-defined operational problem.
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