The current status of research and development in electrical engineering of Korea

Korean government has created the organizations for the private research development, has increased the support in taxes and funds, and has promoted the simplification of administrative structure and the removal of unnecessary restriction for the settlement of the private enterprise-centered technical reformation system. The investment of the research and development of Korea was 2.17% of GNP and the number of researchers was 89,000 in 1992. Korean government will expand the investment of research and development by 3-4% of GNP until 1998 and reinforce the number of researchers by 140,000. For the timely supply of the technical information, which is expected to be a major industry base in the year 2000, Korean government has already started to invest and continuously increased key projects which are focused on the database architectures, information distribution systems, and organizations for the information dissemination.