Korea currently has science officers in the United States, Japan, the European Community, Austria, Germany and Commonwealth of Independent States. The new countries will be Canada, France, Britain, China and Hungary. Offices will be opened in Tokyo, Washington and San Jose in the United States to gather scientific information. The Ministry of Science and Technology explained that the Ministry's plan for dispatching science officers abroad is not final, that interministrial consultations have not been completed and the plan is unlikely to be implemented this year as hoped by the Ministry. A team of Korean Scientists at ETRI has developed the country's first neuro-computer.
Back propagation is the learning method implemented.
The application is to handwritten digit recognition. Classification is carried out by a 3-layer perception based on a precomputed feature map. The other two bidders are Germany and Japan. Korea is waiting for specific proposals from the three countries. These are due near the end of 1992.