Dongwon Kim Jae-cheol, Honorary Chairman of “Use for AI” donated 50 billion won to KAIST

Dongwon Group Honorary Chairman Kim Jae-cheol (right) is boarding an autonomous drone with KAIST Chairman Shin Sung-cheol after donating 50 billion won to KAIST in Daejeon on the 16th. Freelancer Kim Seong-tae

“As world history passed through the age of travel, the great trend of hegemony changed. In the era of the fourth industrial revolution in the 21st century, those who dominate artificial intelligence (AI) will dominate the world. “Kim Jae-cheol (84), honorary president of Dongwon Group. He donated 50 billion won to KAIST for talent development and AI research and development.

KAIST held the ‘Development Fund Grant Agreement Ceremony I’ at Daejeon headquarters on the 16th. KAIST faculty, including President Sung-cheol Shin, Honorary President Kim, and their two sons, Nam- Gu Kim, President of Korea Financial Group, and Vice President of Dongwon Group, Kim Nam-jeong, attended the ceremony.

Honorary President Kim said at the signing ceremony: “The wave of artificial intelligence will lead to a great change that will change our lives beyond the era of anti-navigation and the first, second and third industrial revolutions.” Said. He also said, “If the Korean people with great potential pool their national power and compete, we can become an advanced AI country. It will serve as a flagship) ”.

KAIST’s AI Graduate School was selected for the AI ​​Graduate School Support Project of the Ministry of Science, ICT and ICT for the first time among Korean universities in March last year. It opened in August of last year. 13 full-time professors and 8 adjunct professors from artificial intelligence research centers of global information technology (IT) companies such as Google, IBM Watson and Microsoft were combined to secure 21 faculty members. The IA graduate school campus is planned to gradually move from Daejeon KAIST headquarters to Hongneung, Seoul, starting in March next year. In 2023, the education and research facilities will be expanded in the ‘Yangjae Research and Development Innovation District’ in Seocho-gu, Seoul. It also plans to conduct joint research and cooperation projects between industry and academia related to AI with companies such as Hyundai Motor Company, Samsung and LG.

KAIST announced that it has decided to name it ‘Kim Jae-cheol AI Graduate School’ in honor of Kim’s will. It plans to increase the number of full-time faculty members to 40 by 2030 by gradually expanding the faculty with world-class research capabilities.

An official from the Dongwon Group said, “For Korea to take the lead in the field of AI and become an advanced country in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Honorary President Kim believes that the most important thing is to nurture the talent of the AI ​​”.

President Shin said, “I pay tribute to Honorary President Kim, who personally practiced the spirit of ‘Noblesse Oblige’ (a moral obligation corresponding to high social status) for the development of science and technology and an artificial intelligence powerhouse. “We will do our best to become a global center for AI talent research and training.”

This year, KAIST has raised the most donations since its opening in 1971. Former President of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Jang Byeong-gyu, donated 10 billion won, the highest amount among KAIST alumni in January. . In July, Lee Soo-young, president of the light source industry, contributed 66.7 billion won in real estate. According to KAIST, this year’s total donation amounted to 144.7 billion won, including the donation from Honorary President Kim.

Daejeon = Joonho Choi, a science reporter and future [email protected]