Yoon: "Digital Data Economy Is About Building Networks"… Ahn: "It's All Hardware"

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea, Ahn Cheol-soo of the People Party, Sim Sang-jung of the Justice Party, and Yoon Seok-youl of the People Power Party, the presidential candidates from both ruling and opposition parties, are posing ahead of the first debate hosted by the National Election Commission held on the 21st at MBC in Mapo-gu, Seoul. Photo by the National Assembly Press Photographers.

[Asia Economy Reporters Junyi Park and Youngwon Kim] Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, and Ahn Cheol-soo, the presidential candidate of the People’s Party, engaged in a heated debate over the 'digital data economy.'

On the 21st, during the '1st TV Debate' hosted by the National Election Commission, in the course of discussing the 'next government's economic policy direction,' Ahn asked Yoon, "What is the digital data economy?" Yoon replied, "It is commonly referred to as digital transformation, but we have been digitalizing and building computer networks for the past 30 years."

When Ahn asked, "What is the core of it?" Yoon answered, "It is important to build networks that can quickly transfer data and to have artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that can gather and analyze data collectively in the cloud."

In response, Ahn said, "That is all hardware," to which Yoon countered, "No, software development is necessary for these."

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