Opportunities for Higher Education of Artificial Intelligence in Korea

Abstract

In the recent years, the business environments in Korea, as in most other industrialized countries, have been going under revolutionary changes by adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Since the technology gets popular widely in a short period, there are surging demands of AI manpower not only in the experienced level but also in the entry level. Specifically, we observed by analysing software (SW) job announcements that in about half the cases they require more than 4-year education in college for their new employees without previous job experiences in big data/AI job positions. With the increasing industrial demands in the new technology, there are on-going efforts in higher educational institutes to provide qualified graduates in the AI fields. We surveyed what skills are required in which application fields.