The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) held the launch ceremony of the "Agentic AI Alliance," a public-private consultative body, on Wednesday. As AI evolves beyond a simple tool into "agentic AI" that judges and acts autonomously, the initiative aims to rapidly strengthen Korea's agentic AI competitiveness to maintain leadership across global industries.
MSIT held the ceremony at L Tower in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, explaining the alliance's purpose and operational structure. Around 250 member companies and organizations attended, along with heads of the Industry AX and Ecosystem divisions of the AI Strategy Committee.
The alliance is organized around key agentic AI issues: △Industry △Technology △Ecosystem △Safety and Trust.
The Industry Division is headed by Shin Dong-hun, head of NC AI AX Tech Center, with operational support from the National IT Industry Promotion Agency. The division will facilitate matching between demand-side and supply-side companies to build agentic AI demonstration and deployment systems tailored to industry characteristics, and identify regulatory and institutional reform tasks for each industry.
The Technology Division is headed by Jeon Gi-jeong, head of service development at LG AI Research, with operational support from the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation. As technical standards and protocols for interoperability among agentic AI systems — such as MCP and A2A — are evolving rapidly, the division will analyze domestic and international technology trends. Based on this analysis, it will discuss optimization strategies for agentic AI execution structures and architectures.
The Ecosystem Division is headed by Kim Se-woong, vice president of AI Communication and AI Synergy at Kakao, with operational support from the National Information Society Agency. The division will secure and connect various AI agents and tools in high demand, and establish responsibility structures by service type.
The Safety and Trust Division is headed by Choi Dae-sun, director of the AI Safety Research Center at Soongsil University. It plans to develop safety evaluation and reliability verification systems for agentic AI. The Telecommunications Technology Association and the AI Safety Institute will provide operational support.
The alliance holds significance as a national-level strategic cooperation platform with participation from industry, academia, research institutions, and government. Starting with the approximately 250 companies and organizations that attended the event, MSIT plans to expand the alliance to include additional agentic AI-related companies and organizations that wish to participate.
"The AI competition now goes beyond technological rivalry — it is a competition for ecosystem leadership," said Ryu Je-myeong, second vice minister of MSIT. "MSIT will strengthen industry-academia-research-government cooperation centered on the alliance to enhance our companies' global competitiveness and ensure that agentic AI leads to changes that citizens can feel in their daily lives."