Bill Gates Plans to Visit South Korea as Early as Next Month to Discuss AI Cooperation

TechFlow news, July 29, according to Yonhap News Agency, Microsoft co-founder and Gates Foundation Chair Bill Gates is advancing plans to visit South Korea as early as next month and is coordinating schedules for a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, with specific dates for the visit and the content of the talks yet to be determined. Last August, Gates visited South Korea and met sequentially with major corporate leaders including Chey Tae-won (SK Group), Chung Eui-sun (HD Hyundai), and Lee Jae-yong (Samsung Electronics), discussing cooperation in the fields of AI, biotechnology, and next-generation nuclear power.

If this visit to South Korea takes place, the aforementioned issues are expected to remain core agenda items. Gates also serves as the founder and chairman of the board of next-generation nuclear power enterprise TerraPower. The company is developing a "sodium" reactor-based small modular reactor (SMR) based on a molten salt energy storage system, which has received widespread industry attention for its adjustable output power and high safety.