Law firm Jipyeong said it held a seminar on April 21 in Seoul on strategies for the public sector’s AI transition, focusing on legal frameworks and practical cases.
The event, held at the Grand Central complex in Jung-gu, was designed to broadly review policy direction, legal issues, data governance and responses to infringement incidents tied to public-sector AI transition, also referred to as AX.
Moderated by Heo Jong, a Jipyeong partner attorney and head of the firm’s IP and IT group, the seminar opened with remarks by Jipyeong Managing Partner Kim Ji-hong and featured four presentations followed by a Q&A session.
Gong Jin-ho, director of the AI Policy Planning Division at the Ministry of Science and ICT, presented first on the government’s AX policy direction. “The government is building a pan-government AX common foundation based on core infrastructure such as AI training data and GPUs, and is pushing a wide-ranging AI transition linked to ministry-specific projects,” Gong said.
Song Do-young, a Jipyeong partner attorney, spoke on how to achieve a successful public-sector AI transition from a legal and institutional perspective. “To succeed, it is important to secure legal grounds and a liability structure proactively from the pre-adoption stage,” Song said. He added that beyond the Framework Act on Artificial Intelligence and guidelines, organizations should analyze the many laws being revised or enacted and the national basic cybersecurity guidelines, and manage legal risks systematically across AI development, procurement, contracting and operations.
Shin Yong-woo, also a Jipyeong partner attorney, addressed the issue from a data-governance perspective. “Public-sector AI transition is not just about adopting technology; establishing a data-governance system that covers personal information, copyright and standards for data use is essential,” Shin said. He said proactive legal-risk management must accompany governance to produce sustainable AX results.
Park Yu-hyeon, a partner at PwC Consulting, presented on practical cases and challenges. Park said AI adoption must move beyond a technology-centered approach and be backed by clear business goals and redesigned work processes that can collaborate with AI, as part of an organization-wide AX strategy.
In the Q&A session, moderated by Choi Jeong-gyu, a Jipyeong partner attorney and head of the firm’s IP and IT group, participants including Jeon Su-nam, a team leader at the National IT Industry Promotion Agency, discussed the status of policy efforts, legal issues and practical ways to apply AI in the public sector.
Choi said the seminar provided an opportunity to comprehensively review the policy and legal environment and data-governance issues surrounding public-sector AI transition, and to discuss practical challenges facing public institutions and companies. “As the adoption of AI technology accelerates, proactive review of legal and institutional risks is becoming more important,” he said, adding that Jipyeong will offer practical solutions across the full AX process in both the public and private sectors.
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