Jinsook Lee to Visit the United States from April 28 to May 3 for Policy Talks and Cooperation on AI and Communications
Jinsook Lee, Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission, is explaining the reasons for requesting reconsideration of the partial amendment bill of the Broadcasting Act at the National Assembly plenary session on the 17th. 2025.4.17 Photo by Hyunmin Kim
Jinsook Lee, Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission, will meet with Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to discuss policies between South Korea and the United States. Last month, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 held in Spain, Brendan Carr expressed his view that "unnecessary regulations should not hinder innovation, and if net neutrality is applied excessively, innovation could be threatened." As Carr has opposed the Korean government's moves to regulate net neutrality, it is likely that both sides will exchange views on this issue during the meeting with Chairperson Lee.
According to the Korea Communications Commission, Chairperson Lee will visit the United States from April 28 to May 3 to strengthen international cooperation on broadcasting, communications policy, and artificial intelligence (AI). The Commission stated, "On the 29th, Chairperson Lee will meet with Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to discuss a wide range of topics including public safety, user protection, and the development of next-generation technologies." The Commission also noted, "This is the first visit by a Korea Communications Commission Chairperson to the FCC in about nine years since 2016, and it is being made at the invitation of the U.S. side, which has hoped to strengthen cooperation and exchanges between the two countries since Commissioner Carr took office."
On the 30th, Chairperson Lee will travel to San Francisco to engage in public-private exchanges with global companies and startups in the broadcasting and communications sector. First, she will hold a roundtable with broadcasting and communications startups active in Silicon Valley to discuss strategies for expanding Korean content overseas and to listen to on-the-ground perspectives, including policy implications for protecting AI users.
On the following day, May 1, she will visit the headquarters of LVIS, an AI-based neuroscience startup, to meet with Lee Jinhyung, a professor at Stanford University and CEO of LVIS, and exchange views on the development of AI technology and ways to ensure its ethical use.
She will then visit Meta, one of the world's top five information and communications companies that began as Facebook in 2004, to meet with Andy O'Connell, Vice President of Product Policy and Strategy, and discuss cooperation on AI user protection and responses to illegal and harmful information. She will also visit the headquarters of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, to meet with Jason Kwon, Chief Strategy Officer, to learn about OpenAI's key service models and related user protection policies, and to share opinions on Korea's AI user protection policies.
Before departing on April 28, Chairperson Lee stated, "I expect this will be an opportunity to strengthen the policy cooperation framework between South Korea and the United States in response to the rapidly changing media environment, and to seek a balance between technological innovation and user protection in the age of AI."
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