KOSA Launches Search for Agentic AI Services That Deliver Everyday Impact
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KOSA said on the 21st that it has launched a study, supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and NIA, on "research to foster the agentic AI ecosystem and identify policy support tasks."
The study focuses on identifying agentic AI services that people can directly experience, centered on areas closely tied to daily life such as payments, shopping, and transportation, as well as commercially viable models and policy support tasks.
The results are expected to be used in next year's government projects and policy formulation, as well as in planning new projects such as public-facing agent development programs.
The Korea Software and AI Industry Association (KOSA) said on the 21st that it has launched a study, supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency (NIA), on "research to foster the agentic AI ecosystem and identify policy support tasks."
The study focuses on identifying agentic AI services that people can directly experience, centered on areas closely tied to daily life such as payments, shopping, and transportation. The services targeted for identification are agentic AI services that the public can directly feel and use.
Through the study, KOSA plans to identify service models that can actually be commercialized, along with policy support tasks. It also aims to refine policy tasks for expanding the private-sector ecosystem.
The findings will be used as basic material for next year's government projects and policy formulation. The study results are also expected to be used in planning new projects, including next year's public-facing agent development program, and in shaping related policies.
Agentic AI refers to AI that autonomously plans and reasons based on user requests and carries out the necessary tasks. Its use cases are expanding into transportation, shopping, healthcare, education, and other fields.
The government launched the "Agentic AI Alliance" in April. The alliance is discussing technology development, industrial applications, and ecosystem expansion.
KOSA judged that, in Korea, there has been insufficient review of commercially viable service models compared with technology development, and also insufficient review of areas for actual commercialization. Accordingly, it plans to reflect industry views on procurement methods, data utilization, and operating systems related to the introduction of AI agents.
KOSA will form a research group of industry and public-sector experts and will move ahead with service identification and policy support task development in parallel. As priority tasks, it will pursue research into overseas cases of agentic AI service development and use, as well as analysis of domestic applicability. It also plans to identify candidate services with high public demand, centered on areas such as payments, shopping, and transportation, and to identify around five target companies for each domain.
It will review related structures so that AI agents and MCP developed with government support do not remain at the development stage but instead lead to transfer to and operation by actual service companies. After the technology development phase, the goal is to establish business models linked to private-sector services. It will also move ahead with identifying policy support tasks to activate the agentic AI ecosystem.
In addition, it plans to analyze ecosystem components and domestic and overseas industry trends, focusing on key private-sector areas. It also plans to gather industry views. Based on this, it aims to identify institutional improvements and priority tasks to push ahead with.
Kim Hyun-joo, head of KOSA's AI and AX business division, said the value of agentic AI is realized in the process of an agent handling tasks comprehensively without users having to move between multiple apps. She added that KOSA plans to first create successful cases in the payments, shopping, and transportation sectors and to select services that can actually be applied. It also plans to flesh out support measures needed by companies.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
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