South Korea should consider institutional ways to redistribute potential excess tax revenue generated by the AI infrastructure boom to help ease inequalities that could deepen in an AI-driven era, a top presidential policy aide said.
Presidential chief of staff for policy Kim Yong-beom underscored the need for such a framework as South Korea could be entering a structurally different economic era driven by AI infrastructure supply chains, including memory chips and high-bandwidth memory.
Kim proposed the principle, tentatively named a “national dividend,” underlining that gains from AI infrastructure should be understood as the product of South Korea’s collectively built industrial foundation.
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South Korea should consider institutional ways to redistribute potential excess tax revenue generated by the AI infrastructure boom to help ease inequalities that could deepen in an AI-driven era, a top presidential policy aide said.
Presidential chief of staff for policy Kim Yong-beom underscored the need for such a framework as South Korea could be entering a structurally different economic era driven by AI infrastructure supply chains, including memory chips and high-bandwidth memory.
Kim proposed the principle, tentatively named a “national dividend,” underlining that gains from AI infrastructure should be understood as the product of South Korea’s collectively built industrial foundation.
2. How is this related to the sub
(1) UBI and AI: President Lee Jae-myung stressed the need to establish “Basic Society”, UBI program funded by LVT and AI profit in 2022 presidential campaign. On 2025 presidential campaign, he stepped back his grand plan a bit to “creating foundation for Basic Society” to appeal to moderates…but there are signs that he is going full mask off. From the constant rumors of LVT introduction after June local election victory, his war on real estate speculators to this incident, all signals to he didn’t abandon his dream of implementing “Basic Society” program.