Lee aide suggests sharing AI boom tax windfalls through ‘citizen dividend’

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The korea Herald News

South Korea should consider institutional ways to redistribute potential excess tax revenue generated by the AI infrastructure boom to help ease inequalities that could deepen in an AI-driven era, a top presidential policy aide said. Presidential chief of staff for policy Kim Yong-beom underscored the need for such a framework as South Korea could be entering a structurally different economic era driven by AI infrastructure supply chains, including memory chips and high-bandwidth memory.