South Korea

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Measure rural digital access, capability and usage gaps

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Measure access, capability and usage gaps

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Measure digital access, skills and usage gaps

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Measure digital access, skills and usage gaps

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Large-scale household survey guiding inclusion policy

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Measure internet use and AI-service experience

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Accessibility assessment across sectors

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Government funding for inclusive digital products/services

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Device use, basic digital skills and AI literacy training

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Open enrolment and local face-to-face instruction

providing free or broadly accessible domestic AI services so the benefits of generative AI are not limited to users able to pay for premium platforms

Activities and approach: General-purpose AI chatbot; public AI agent; domestic foundation models; consortium operation; public GPU/compute support; staged nationwide service expansion

Builds digital capability and adoption support for priority populations identified in the cited source, addressing skills and participation barriers.

Activities and approach: Targeted digital inclusion activities described in the cited source

Builds seniors’ digital and gaming literacy while creating roles in which trained older adults become instructors, directly connecting digital inclusion with workforce participation.

Activities and approach: Train senior game instructors; develop customized jobs; game-literacy education; training programs; educational portals and networks

Transfers usable computers into communities and organizations serving people with limited access to digital equipment.

Activities and approach: Collection, reuse and donation of 361 computers; community distribution

providing local instruction from smartphone basics through generative AI

Activities and approach: Digital instruction delivered through 38 community and senior centers; smartphone basics; generative AI

narrowing student digital-skill gaps through targeted AI and software learning support

Activities and approach: Customized AI and software education designed to strengthen practical digital competencies among students needing additional support

bringing hands-on instruction to older residents as smart-city services expand

Activities and approach: Mobile literacy clinics and training on automated digital services

Addresses digital capability, safe use and equipment access together through trusted family-service centers across South Korea.

Activities and approach: Smartphone training; generative AI practice; voice-phishing and smishing prevention; smart TV, laptop and tablet support; nationwide program expansion

reducing the age-based digital divide through practical, accessible AI and digital-service education

Activities and approach: Joint development and distribution of AI/digital lifelong-learning content and a Whale-browser-based digital literacy textbook covering Naver Shopping and everyday online services

Addresses the usage and skills dimensions of the digital divide so connectivity translates into actual participation in digital services and the economy.

Activities and approach: Digital inclusion policy; training; accessible services; institutional support.

Co-financed rural fiber construction beyond the universal-service baseline, reducing the urban-rural broadband access gap.

Activities and approach: FTTH/FTTx; public-private co-investment; rural access networks.

Subsidizes FTTH construction in low-density villages where residents otherwise face high network build charges.

Activities and approach: FTTH; 1 Gbps broadband; government/local/operator cost sharing.

Combines free/public connectivity with tailored training and support to reduce both access and skills barriers for vulnerable residents.

Activities and approach: Public Wi-Fi in welfare facilities; senior digital centers; digital tutors; kiosk training.

Makes 100 Mbps broadband a universal service so rural residents can obtain a baseline high-speed connection despite unfavorable deployment economics.

Activities and approach: 100 Mbps fixed broadband; universal service obligation; fiber access.