Yoon: "Quantum Science to Build 'Quantum Platform' Combining Law, Accounting, and Business"

Quantum, Integrating Various Fields to Lead Industrialization
Yoon: Digital Ethics Principles and Norms Should Also Apply to Quantum

President Yoon Suk-yeol stated on the 27th, "We will create a quantum platform, a digital and physical space where quantum experts, legal, accounting, and business professionals collaborate on research and development and share outcomes to generate economic value." This reflects the vision to approach quantum, a future core technology, not merely as science and technology but to integrate it with various fields in Korea and lead industrialization.

On the same day, President Yoon presided over the "Dialogue on the Present and Future of Quantum Science and Technology" held at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) Conference Hall, attended by leading scholars in the quantum science and technology field and the future generation.

Earlier, in January, President Yoon declared the inaugural year of Korea's quantum science and technology leap during a dialogue with quantum scholars at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

The presidential office explained in a press release that this dialogue was held to discuss the development direction of the quantum science and technology sector and explore ways to establish a global ecosystem together with world-renowned quantum scholars, as Korea is actively entering the quantum field.

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President Yoon particularly emphasized, "Considering the powerful ripple effect of quantum technology, the digital ethics principles and norms presented last week at the Paris 'Digital Vision Forum' should also apply to quantum technology."

On the 21st (local time), at the Digital Vision Forum held at Sorbonne University in Paris, President Yoon unveiled the Paris Initiative, which includes immediate information sharing, establishing regulatory systems, and creating international organizations, stating, "Digital has no borders and possesses connectivity and immediacy. Therefore, a universally accepted digital order internationally is important."

After the dialogue, President Yoon toured exhibits at the 2023 Quantum Korea event, including a quantum computer model and brain imaging equipment using quantum sensors, discussing the current status and future development directions of quantum science and technology with attendees.

The dialogue featured notable figures such as Dr. John Clauser of JF Clauser & Associates, who confirmed the violation of Bell's inequality through quantum entanglement experiments and won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Charles Bennett of IBM, who built the first quantum cryptography system and consecutively received the Wolf Prize and Breakthrough Prize; and Professor John Martinis of UC Santa Barbara, who first demonstrated quantum supremacy with a 53-qubit quantum processor.

Also present were Korean scholars representing quantum science and technology, including Professor Myung-Sik Kim of Imperial College, USA, a Humboldt Prize laureate who previously participated in dialogues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's quantum department; Professor Jungsang Kim of Duke University, USA, co-founder of Nasdaq-listed company IonQ; Professor Soonwon Choi of MIT, USA, who developed methods to verify the accuracy and reliability of quantum computers and published papers simultaneously in Nature and Science journals; and Dr. Youngseok Kim of IBM, who demonstrated that quantum computers with reduced computational errors surpass supercomputers, featured on the cover of the June issue of Nature.

Additionally, 20 university students majoring in quantum science and technology from various Korean universities and seven young researchers also participated.

President Yoon Suk-yeol is visiting the 'Quantum Korea 2023' exhibition hall after concluding the 'Dialogue on the Present and Future of Quantum Science and Technology' held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul on the 27th. He is examining a model of a 50-qubit superconducting quantum computer developed by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science. [Presidential Office Press Photographers Group] [Image source=Yonhap News]

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