Standardization and Standards

Policy Leader

Analysis of Policy Trends
The KAMSC analyzes major standardization policies and trends at home and abroad and publishes the results on a continuous basis in order to make policy recommendations to the government and shed a guiding light on corporate activities. From 2013, the KAMSC published issue reports in which policy recommendations were proposed. These reports were made publicly available on the KAMSC’s website and distributed to government agencies and other relevant institutions.

Standards Policy Milestone Reports
The KAMSC held the Standards Policy Milestone Research Contest with the aim of providing a forum for discussing current issues, major theories, and policy directions to further advance Korea’s standardization, and of promoting academic and practical research on standardization. The results were published in a report.

Publish Next Standards
Each year the KAMSC publishes the results of major research projects in book form to assist in setting standardization policies for the next year.

Expanding its role as a private standardization body

In line with the government’s policy direction of “increasing the role of the private sector in promoting standardization”, the KAMSC is becoming increasingly involved in developing new standards and setting international standards. The KAMSC took on a greater role in developing national standards by becoming a Co-operating Organization for Standards Development (COSD) and by operating the One-Stop Standards Development Support Center. As a secretary of the national mirror committees in this field, the KAMSC intends to create synergy in domestic and international standardization efforts and actively participate in global standardization initiatives.

Involvement in Global Standardization

Global Standardization Support Center
The KATS under MOTIE set up the Global Standardization Support Center within the KAMSC in 2013 with the goals of providing technology advisory services and international standardization consulting to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and ultimately assisting SMEs with their efforts to increase their exports and raise their global position, and also provides financial support as part of the efforts to improve standard technologies. The center hired international standards professionals to offer one-on-one consulting to corporations, identified ten companies as possessing technologies with the potential to become a global standard, and supported the submittal of New Work Item Proposals (NP) by six of those companies.

Support for Standards Systems in Developing Countries
The KAMSC secured 900 million KRW from the KATS’s subsidy budget in 2014, which is spent on establishing standards systems in developing countries, and is implementing various businesses to meet the needs of individual countries including setting up master plans for the national standards policy, and creating institutional frameworks for standards, compatibility, and measurement. Through these businesses, the KAMSC is working closely with ISO, African Regional Organization for Standardization (ARSO, Africa), Gulf Standardization Organization (GSO, Middle East), Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT, Central and South America), and Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC, Asia-Pacific), and enhancing its global status. In addition, the KAMSC is also actively involved in forming regional standardization and certification blocs to facilitate the sale of certification testing services and exports by domestic corporations in those regions.

International Conferences
The KAMSC organized the multi-media international standardization conference hosted by the KATS in April 2013 (61st PEG meeting, 104th MPEG, 47th VCEG, 13th JCT-VC, and 4th JCT-3V meetings). The conference was attended by 455 multi-media professionals from 21 countries to discuss a wide range of issues concerning next-generation multi-media standardizations, including high-efficiency video coding for ultra-highre solution TV, hybrid delivery for smart TV and the provision of user-customized information, augmented reality, 3D video coding, and moving picture data indexing and search technology. In 2015, the KAMSC organized the ISO general meeting to be hosted by the KATS in Korea with the remit of making it an important event that reconfirmed Korea’s leadership in standardization and provide an opportunity for another leap forward.

Standardization Initiatives in Korea

Technology Regulations
The KAMSC was appointed as the secretariat of the Technology Regulation Policy Forum at the end of 2014. The forum was created to identify excessive technology regulations and recommend ways of rationalizing them under the leadership of the KATS. The forum and subcommittee meetings were held on a continuing basis in 2015 to listen for difficulties that such regulations pose to corporations and work out ways of resolving them.

National Standards Coordinator
The KATS launched the standards coordinator business in 2011 with the aim of maximizing the use of national R&D achievements in industries by standardizing and promoting the sales of domestic technologies in global markets. The budget for this project comes from the general account of the KATS. Private professionals are selected as standards coordinators for each of the major industries and get involved in the drafting of national standardization plans. These coordinators are responsible for creating a standard-base R&D standardization roadmap, mentoring SMEs on technology standards, informing SMEs of international standards to create B2B business environments, connecting R&D and standards, and building the basic eco system.

Leader in Standardization Education
The KAMSC also plays a leading role in educating standards users by developing a broad curriculum with in-depth contents. As a founding member of the International Cooperation for Education about Standardization (ICES), which was launched in 2006, the KAMSC is sharing its educational experience and know-how with other countries while, on the domestic front, it is striving to create an education system that caters to the needs of trainees and to develop high-quality contents.

Standardization Education Curriculum

KS Sectors

No	Trainees	Content
1	Elementary Schools	Standardization education sessions
2	Middle & High Schools	International Standards Olympiad Technology textbooks contain a unit on standardization.
3	Universities & Colleges	More than 50 universities and colleges run a standardization program. Technology standards are incorporated into human resources development programs.
4	Industries	Standards professionals, international standardization, greater expertise and professional knowledge on standards, standards management strategy guide, de facto standardization education
5	Consumers	Nationwide standardization education for the general public; raising consumers’ awareness of standardization