What did Korea's 2045 Strategy Committee decide at its second meeting?

The committee selected 17 core tasks to guide long-term national development strategies. Officials said the final strategy is expected to be announced by the end of the year.

Why is the government pushing a 2045 national development strategy?

Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said the plan should prepare Korea for hard-to-resolve challenges such as polarization, demographic change, regional extinction and climate change. The committee was also told that Korea faces a polycrisis involving AI transformation, demographic and climate crises and geopolitical hegemony competition.

PM holds 2045 Strategy Committee meeting, selects 17 core tasks

Q: Which priority areas were included in the 2045 Strategy Committee's 17 core tasks?

The list includes securing AI competitiveness, ensuring energy security, reforming pensions, welfare and care systems for an aging society, leveraging human resources across youth, women and older generations, and promoting tech-friendly regulatory innovation.

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Summary

The government held a second 2045 Strategy Committee meeting on Wednesday and selected 17 core tasks for long-term national development plans to be finalized by year-end. Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said the strategy should draw on wisdom from all generations. Officials said the committee is targeting challenges such as polarization, demographic change, regional extinction and climate change.

Key Facts

The 2045 Strategy Committee was launched in May to develop long-term national development strategies for Korea.
The year 2045 marks the centennial of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.
The National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences said Korea faces a polycrisis involving AI transformation, demographic and climate crises and geopolitical hegemony competition.
The committee selected 17 priority tasks, including securing AI competitiveness, ensuring energy security and reforming pensions, welfare and care systems for an aging society.

By Yonhap

Published Aug 12, 2026 11:53 am KST

The government held a second meeting Wednesday of the 2045 Strategy Committee charged with drawing up a blueprint and strategies for what Korea should look like in 2045 and identified 17 core tasks with the goal of announcing the final strategies by the end of the year, officials said.

The committee, launched in May, is aimed at developing long-term national development strategies to muster up national capabilities so as to deal systematically with hard-to-resolve challenges, such as polarization, demographic changes, regional extinction and climate change.

The year 2045 carries a symbolic meaning as the centennial of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.

"The 2045 national development strategy should be a strategy for all people, not just the government alone. What's more important than anything else is to collect wisdom from all people across generations," Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said while presiding over the committee's second meeting.

"We will try to select future-oriented, daring and challenging tasks to build an 'irreplaceable Republic of Korea' in every aspect by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the liberation," she said.

During the meeting, the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences reported that Korea faces a polycrisis involving AI transformation, demographic and climate crises, and geopolitical hegemony competition while trapped in a "double bottleneck" situation where top technologies do not lead to tangible outcomes and there is a weak foundation for social consensus.

It called for redesigning the innovative growth engine and the social operating system to realize a future vision.

Seventeen priority tasks were selected during the meeting, including securing AI competitiveness, ensuring energy security, reforming pensions, welfare, and care systems for an aging society, leveraging human resources across youth, women, and older generations, and promoting tech-friendly regulatory innovation, officials said.

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