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Starting in April 2018, the MND has been looking into the current status of public facilities

such as sports facilities, parking lots, and conference rooms. The MND will select and open to
the public facilities with high demands for opening, select the best practice cases, and take other
actions to contribute to the local communities and residents’ welfare.

4. National Defense Regulatory Reforms

| Regulatory Reforms in Various Areas | In line with the “redesigning of regulations for the
public welfare and innovation,” which is one of the tasks set by the Moon Jae-in administration,

the MND is currently reforming regulations in various areas, including new industries, military
installations, and defense industries, to maximize the people’s benef its within a scope that does
not interfere with national security and the people’s safety.
In 2017, the MND streamlined the selection process for the new construction technologies

and products to be adopted into designing military installations, 30) and held PR sessions for
companies with new technologies and outstanding products to help them secure distribution

channels. In addition, the MND improved the permission system for the manufacture and sale
of military gears. Now, if a request for permission is not processed within 40 days, it is deemed
to have been approved.
In 2018, to support new industries and technologies of the future that form the core of the
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Moon Jae-in administration’s regulatory reform, the MND worked toward implementing a
system for developing future technologies, 31) thereby forming a foundation for using unmanned
robots, artif icial intelligence (AI), and other new technologies in developing weapon systems.

In addition, the MND introduced bills designed to streamline the pre-export procedures for

30) Reduce the burden caused by placing tenders for each project by selecting new and outstanding technologies
to be used in all military facility projects in the relevant year.
31) Under the current laws, national defense technologies may be developed only when the needs for such
technologies exist, which made it difficult to develop weapons using the technologies. For this reason, the MND
pursued the enactment of the National Defense Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Act (tentative
title) that allows the development of future weapon systems regardless of their demands, using the core
technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (unmanned, robots, and AI).

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