{"id":3118,"date":"2022-08-05T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2022-08-05T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:11:51","slug":"this-south-korean-city-is-spending-millions-to-turn-people-into-blockchain-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/this-south-korean-city-is-spending-millions-to-turn-people-into-blockchain-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"This South Korean City is Spending Millions to Turn People Into Blockchain Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daegu, the fourth-largest city in South Korea, recently announced their plans to allocate over $6 million towards blockchain and artificial intelligence education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upkorea.net\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=774994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a>&nbsp;to Up Korea, Daegu\u2019s officials aim to solve what they consider a \u201cserious shortage of resources in the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution.\u201d The city\u2019s government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/south-korean-government-to-grant-32-million-to-blockchain-companies\">plans<\/a>&nbsp;to bring talented individuals to Daegu from other regions by offering courses in blockchain, AI, and other big data sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daegu&#8217;s ICT Innovation Square will oversee these free blockchain courses over the next three years. Up Korea clarified that Daegu&#8217;s educational programs will offer the ability to study at night and on weekends as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, Daegu\u2019s Suseong University&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/south-korean-university-announces-new-blockchain-campus\">reached<\/a>&nbsp;a deal with the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association, or KORAIA, to create a blockchain and AI campus in the city. They plan to teach about AI, big data, and cloud-based technology by 2021.(source: cointelegraph)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daegu, the fourth-largest city in South Korea, recently announced their plans to allocate over $6 million towards blockchain and artificial intelligence education. According&nbsp;to Up Korea, Daegu\u2019s officials aim to solve what they consider a \u201cserious shortage of resources in the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution.\u201d The city\u2019s government&nbsp;plans&nbsp;to bring talented individuals to Daegu &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/this-south-korean-city-is-spending-millions-to-turn-people-into-blockchain-experts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This South Korean City is Spending Millions to Turn People Into Blockchain Experts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}