'Digital Twin Gukto' Data to Be Completed Within the Year... Administrative Use Starting 2024

On the 11th, the 'Digital Twin Land Policy Meeting' was held at the LX Corporation Gyeonggi Northern Regional Headquarters building in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, attended by Ando Geol, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (second from the right). March 11, 2022. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Sejong=Reporter Son Seon-hee] The data construction for the 'Digital Twin Land' project, one of the Korean New Deal initiatives, is expected to be completed within this year. The original goal was to complete it by 2025, but this has been advanced by three years.

According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the 11th, Ando-geol, the 2nd Vice Minister of the Ministry, attended the 'Digital Twin Land Policy Meeting' held at the Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation's Northern Gyeonggi Regional Headquarters in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, and stated, "Starting this year, we will officially begin building the Digital Twin Land integrated platform, and from 2024, we plan to support each ministry, local governments, and public institutions in utilizing Digital Twin Land for administrative services such as underground facility safety management."

The Digital Twin Land project involves implementing land information identical to reality in a three-dimensional virtual space. Various data from the private sector and administration will be connected here to conduct simulations and be used for decision-making, such as solving urban problems.

Vice Minister An emphasized, "Based on real-time information about urban population distribution and movement, commercial districts, and logistics, it is a new core infrastructure that can test and verify solution models for various urban issues such as security and control, welfare (emergency medical care, care services), environment (fine dust), and transportation."

In this regard, the government invested a total of 232 billion KRW, including 164.7 billion KRW from 2017 to 2021 and 67.3 billion KRW this year.

Vice Minister An stated, "It is important to expand digital twin technology beyond innovation in public administrative services to various private sectors such as manufacturing, construction, transportation, safety, and energy," adding, "We will also strive to build an industry ecosystem centered on private companies through support for core technology development (R&D) such as sector-specific 3D data construction, private sector openness, and 3D visualization."

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