136 important technologies were overtaken by China, and the Korean media broke the defense, calling

Mondo games Updated on 2024-03-06

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According to the South China Morning Post, South Korea is keeping a close eye on China, which has made significant progress, as the global technology industry is growing rapidly. When China's scientific and technological strength surpassed that of South Korea, South Korean media frequently used words such as "shock", "humiliation" and "fiasco" to express disappointment.

The 6th China-Korea Innovation Competition.

Some analysts pointed out that the strong concern of the South Korean media about being surpassed by China stems from the fact that South Korea has long adapted to falling behind the United States, Japan and Europe, and is not ashamed to face this backwardness. However, South Korea "cannot tolerate" that it is inferior to China and calls being overtaken by China "unacceptable and disturbing."

According to a recent report released by South Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology, China surpassed South Korea's level of scientific and technological development for the first time in 136 important technologies in 11 key science and technology fields. The results are based on a biennial evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Korea.

The last time South Korea made such an assessment was four years ago, when South Korea won 80The 1% result, slightly higher than China's 80%, maintained a slight lead. The assessment focuses on academic** and patent review in areas such as defence, aerospace, mechanical engineering, construction and transportation, aviation and marine, resources, information and communication technology and software.

Biden (center) of the United States and Yoon Suk-yeol (right) of South Korea visit Samsung's Pyeongtaek campus in Seoul.

According to reports, a professor at a Korean university who studies the Chinese economy believes that the result of China surpassing South Korea for the first time in 11 fields is not unexpected, but he expects that China's superiority in science and technology will pose a major challenge to South Korea and impose a "huge burden" on South Korea. He stressed the need for South Korea to set a clearer goal and direction for moving forward, especially in terms of basic technology. The role of South Korea** is crucial, including increasing R&D investment as a share of GDP, efficient use of R&D funds, and improving investment efficiency.

The South China Morning Post quoted a Chinese studies scholar as saying that South Korean media are reporting and claiming that "China has achieved a leading position in technological development" and that South Korea will promote a "technological blockade" against China and take measures such as avoiding technological exchanges and preventing the leakage of advanced technology.

In fact, South Korea has already begun to do so. According to the Economic and Commercial Office of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea, the Korea Customs Service announced on January 5 that it plans to comprehensively strengthen the supervision measures for the illegal export of cutting-edge technology and strategic materials by strengthening international cooperation with the United States and Japan, as well as border supervision of technology-infringing goods, in 2024 to protect the competitiveness of South Korean companies and the country's economic security.

A robot that can play the piano developed by China's Zhijiang Laboratory.

The report also mentioned that South Korea's ** deficit with China will reach $18 billion in 2023, the first deficit in 31 years. The South Korean professor believes that this trend is mainly caused by the rapid development of China's science and technology, which has led to the gradual weakening of the competitiveness of Korean products, and it will be an arduous task to change South Korea's deficit with China.

In recent years, the rapid development of China's science and technology is inseparable from the strong support of the first level, especially through the "National Key R&D Program" to focus on investment and support for selected core strategic technologies, which cover many fields from artificial intelligence, supercomputers, biotechnology, aerospace, to new energy. In this process, enterprises, research institutions and universities have formed a close cooperative relationship to jointly promote scientific and technological innovation.

In stark contrast, South Korea's repeated cuts in R&D budgets in recent years have led to a wide range of scientific communities, exposing the lack of a solid network of collaboration between South Korea, industry and academia, which has also led to a lack of enthusiasm for advancing advanced technology research and development among South Korea's science and engineering talents.

Nowadays, the Korean media is still making a fuss about the reality that "South Korea's science and technology lags behind China", but in fact, this result has long been developing along the predetermined trajectory of South Korea's ** governance policy, which has formed the result of being called "humiliation" by the Korean media today.

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