The Ministry of Planning and Budget will introduce artificial intelligence across budget work, including budget formulation and spending restructuring.
The ministry said it held an “AI Budget Assistant introduction review meeting” chaired by Park Chang-hwan, director general for budget review and coordination, on April 29 to discuss progress and next steps.
The AI Budget Assistant is designed to provide tailored information based on extensive fiscal and program data when budget staff enter questions. The ministry plans to begin procurement in early May and start using the system in day-to-day budget work from May next year.
To support the rollout, the ministry will adopt a large language model dedicated to budget operations and train it on accumulated materials, including past budget requests, fiscal statistics, program briefing documents and internal review files. Officials expect it to reduce repetitive work such as searching and compiling past records, allowing staff to focus on policy judgments.
To secure higher-quality data, the ministry will build an integrated data platform and move to collect documents scattered across personal computers and messaging services. It also plans to convert existing Hangul Word Processor (HWP) files into an AI-trainable format (HWPX) to improve data usability.
The government, aiming to become one of the world’s top three AI powers, tripled this year’s AI budget from 3.3 trillion won to 9.9 trillion won. It plans to use the new system to improve both the accuracy of fiscal management and work efficiency.
The ministry said it will start procurement in early May and try to move up the introduction schedule as much as possible.
“By introducing the AI Budget Assistant as early as possible compared with the original plan, we will maximize both the accuracy of national fiscal management and work efficiency,” Park said.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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