'Preoccupy Standards to
Seize Global Markets'
ATS aims at raising the number of Korean techs being adopted
as int'l standards to 300 by 2010

The government plans to raise to 300 the number of homegrown technologies being adopted as global standards by 2008 in a bid to preoccupy the global markets, officials said.
Officials at the Agency for Technology Standardization (ATS) under the control of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said Korea's own technologies being adopted as global standards are on the rise in the ICT area in which preoccupying standards mean seizing of global markets in advance, and that is forecast to contribute to make a foray into global markets.
ATS said out of a total of 2,334 international standards, 113 technologies of 22 kinds have so are been designed as global standards.
Kim Hyun-il, director of ATS? Information System Standard Division, said ?orean technologies being adopted as global standards account for 0.9 percent in terms of number, but they are concentrated in such key ICT arrears as Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and Flat Panel Display (FPD).?Korean-developed 83 technologies are now competing for 53 international standards.
For instance, some 100 Korean-produced technologies have been adopted as MPEG standards, taking up a 20 percent portion in the category, six out of the 14 kinds of technologies in the flat panel display sector are Korean-made technologies, said Ahn Byung-man, director-general of ATS' Advanced Technology & Standards.
Besides, location based service (LBS) technologies, core parts for geological and traffic information, are likely to be adopted as global standards as Korea has proposed.
Most of the Korean technologies developed or suggested by companies, research institutes and universities, could be put on the market after commercialization in the case they are adopted as international standards.
ATS said the agency will aim at making 300 Korean technologies global standards by 2008 in order to raise its profile as one of the global IT powerhouses.
It said ATS plans to implement diverse strategies, including the one designed to muster a greater say in international standard forums, while exploring excellent and patent technologies possessed by Korean companies.
ATS will focus Korea's standardization effort on technologies that are more likely to preoccupy global markets or strengthen market presence.
To this end, ATS will establish a five-year IT standardization plan between 2006 and 2010, calling for channeling 3 billion won from national coffers during the five-year period to develop 205 kinds of technologies in 15 areas, including information and communication, multimedia apparatus, geological/traffic information, medical and educational information. nw

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