President Yoon Seok-yeol presented a world order initiative through digital at the “Digital Vision Forum”

On the afternoon of September 21st, President Yoon attended the “Digital Vision Forum” hosted by New York University and attended by key officials from New York City and New York University, as well as major Korean and American businesspeople in the digital field. 

President Yoon, who attended this forum at the invitation of New York University, delivered a keynote speech titled “Solidarity for Digitally Free Citizens” and presented an idea for a digital order. 

Yoon explained that digital technology should contribute to expanding freedom and that it is important to create economic and social values with digital data. He emphasized that the digital ecosystem that supports this should be created in an open form where anyone can participate and work.

In order for the Republic of Korea to fulfill its role as a model country in the digital era and to share its achievements with global citizens, he expressed his will to establish a national digital strategy and to strongly promote it.

He said that it is time to start a full-fledged discussion to establish and maintain a new digital order, and he expects that the Digital Vision Forum hosted by New York University will play a key role as a public forum for digital free citizens.

He congratulated the KAIST-New York City and KAIST-New York University cooperation events held in conjunction with the Digital Vision Forum for establishing a foothold for joint scientific and technological research and talent exchange between the two countries, and urged them to make efforts to lead to concrete results in the future. 

The cooperation agreement between KAIST and New York City was signed to create synergy effects by combining KAIST’s superior technology with New York’s active start-up and investment environment. The two organizations will cooperate in various fields such as education, economy, society, and culture, and work closely to create world-class high-tech and innovative companies.

At this event, KAIST-New York University joint campus signboard delivery ceremony was held. The joint campus located on New York University’s Brooklyn campus is used as a collaborative space for research between KAIST and New York University faculty and researchers. KAIST and New York University are strengthening cooperation with the goal of conducting joint research in major technological fields such as bio, artificial intelligence, and brain science in the future, and establishing joint degrees in the mid- to long-term.

President Yoon visits Ainuri Children’s Daycare Center in Sejong

On September 27, President Yoon Seok-yeol visited Ainuri Children’s Daycare Center in Sejong City. He observed child care programs and held meetings with parents, child care staff, and related experts. 

Prior to the visit, Yoon discussed ‘demographic change and response direction’ at a cabinet meeting in Sejong City, and this visit was prepared to listen to the voices of children, parents and childcare staff, and also encourage their hard work. 

The Ainuri Daycare Center is a national and public daycare center established by Sejong City and operated by Daedeok University (located in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon).

He said that in this time of low birth, the government will do its best for healthy growth of children and alleviating the burden of childcare by selecting the introduction of parental benefits, improvement of the treatment of childcare staff and improvement of the environment at daycare centers as national tasks.

He also ordered that the elderly get a rewarding opportunity to participate in society with their children, and that children continue to discover and improve advanced job business models in which they learn the age and wisdom of the elderly. The Grandma Story Project is a project in which the state subsidizes expenses and an elderly woman who has completed a certain curriculum visits daycare centers and kindergartens to tell children old stories.