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Investigation Urged into Government R&D Budget Cuts: KAIST Countermeasures Committee

Execution time2024-05-07 13:26

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(Daejeon = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Joo-young = On the 7th, eight science and technology organizations, including the ‘Ipteulmak’ countermeasures committee of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) requested a government investigation into the Yoon Seok – due to government cuts in the research and development (R&D) budget.

The KAIST Illegal Countermeasures Committee is an organization organized by current students and graduates following the incident in which graduate student Shin Min-ki was forcibly kicked out of the KAIST graduation ceremony last February while protesting research and development budget cuts (Y&D).

These organizations said in a statement, “The person in charge of the President’s Office gave the order to reduce the Research and Development budget to government ministries such as the Ministry of Science and ICT, the specific content, purpose and method of the order, and The reduction of 5.4 trillion in the budget made in the two months following the President’s order at the National Budget Strategy Meeting “Make the details public,” he urged.

In addition, it was argued that the basis for promoting global research and development projects, which increased to 2.8 trillion in two months, specific cases of damage to government-funded companies, universities, and research institutions, and retaliatory inspections have u targeting from the Korea Aerospace. Research Institute, was revealed through an investigation by the National Assembly.

Shin Min-ki, co-representative of the countermeasures committee, said, “The research environment for young researchers has been destroyed by R&D budget cuts. We should not try to pass on patronizing progress. To solve the problem, we must to understand the current situation and circumstances be a priority.”

jyoung@yna.co.kr

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