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The Double Structure of Digital Sovereignty
Europe’s Departure from Palantir and the Chains of American Big Tech
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
This is a record of 2026, when European intelligence agencies and defense ministries began removing analytics tools from America’s Palantir. It covers the replacement decisions made by France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), and the Netherlands Ministry of Defense; the incident in which US export controls severed an ally’s ac…
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Artificial Intelligence in Horticulture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across five chapters and ten sections, this book examines computer vision for crop diagnosis, harvesting robots and autonomous field systems, smart greenhouses and digital twins, precision irrigation and supply-chain quality control, high-throughput phenotyping, and predictive breeding.
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Artificial Intelligence in Food Crop Agriculture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across six chapters and eighteen sections, the book examines digital agricultural infrastructure, remote sensing, crop diagnosis, yield forecasting, precision irrigation, genomics, molecular breeding, agricultural robotics, climate-smart agriculture, and global food security.
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The Future of Forestry and Agroforestry
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Driven by Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows satellites, drones, LiDAR, digital twins, forest-specific language models, wildfire and pest forecasting, forestry robotics, agroforestry, timber traceability, and forest carbon markets.
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Smart Livestock Farming: AI Enters the Barn
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Sensors listen, cameras watch, and artificial intelligence helps farmers decide.
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows precision livestock farming from animal health and reproduction to robotic milking, virtual fencing, digital twins, methane reduction, welfare, and data ownership.
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Han Dong-hoon, Busan Buk-gu Gap: A Record of the 100 Days Before and After the Election (Mar. 26-Jul. 3, 2026)
Kim Kyung-jin
Table of Contents and 13 sections
From March 26 to July 3, 2026, this record follows the spring after expulsion, the Busan Buk-gu Gap by-election, victory as an independent, and the first bill submitted in the National Assembly.
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Artificial Intelligence and Medicine
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI in clinical care, hospitals, education, and research
AI in medical imaging, risk prediction, treatment planning, hospital operations, education, and research, with patient safety, privacy, and accountability.
[AI Library] Chapter 26: We Need to Reconstruct the Myth of Success
The Han Dong-hoon Story
Chapter 26: We Need to Reconstruct the Myth of Success
Kim Kyung-jin
The Han Dong-hoon Story
PART 06 Han Dong-hoon Pledges to Open a New Era · Source Text 04
I read through Han Dong-hoon's campaign pledges from the recent presidential election carefully. Among them, there was a part that stood out, and I will introduce it.
The history of South Korea has been a succession of miracles that turned the impossible into the possible.
From battlegrounds reduced to ashes, we achieved two decisive leaps. In 1953, when the Korean War ended, our nation's per capita income was 67 dollars. We were the world's poorest country, worse off than Ghana and Zimbabwe in Africa. The international community called South Korea "a nation without hope." Yet seventy years later, we have become an economic power ranked in the world's top ten. No nation in human history has achieved such a leap. The first leap was President Syngman Rhee's "land reform."
It gave tenant farmers who had lived as sharecroppers the chance to own "their own land." The hope that "now what I earn from my work becomes mine" awakened the people, ignited their hunger for education, and laid the foundation for capitalism. It was the event that placed the cornerstone of the house called South Korea. Until then, most farmers had to borrow land from landowners and turn over more than half their harvest to them. No matter how hard they worked, they could not escape poverty. But when land reform created "their own land," the light in the farmers' eyes changed. "With rice from my land, I will educate my children." This hope became the starting point of South Korea's passion for education.
The second leap was President Park Chung-hee's "development of heavy and chemical industries."
A nation that had manufactured and sold wigs
declared it would build steel mills, manufacture ships, and produce automobiles.
The world laughed, but we did it. Because of that resolve, we were able to leap over the middle-income trap and reach the threshold of an advanced nation.
At the time, the World Bank assessed Korea's steel mill construction as "a country with no technology, no capital, no experience building a steel mill,that's insane."
Japanese steel companies also ridiculed the idea.
Yet Pohang Iron and Steel produced its first molten steel in 1973 and became the world's number one steel company within twenty years. That "insane" undertaking built today's South Korea.
Now Han Dong-hoon speaks of a "third miracle," that is, a "second leap."
Currently, South Korea's engine of growth is cooling.
The nation is losing its vitality to low birth rates and an aging population.
Young people are giving up, saying "effort does not pay off."
Will we settle for this, or will we leap again?
Han Dong-hoon chooses the leap without hesitation.
Two paths lie ahead of us.
One is the path of falling into stagnation like Japan's "lost three decades." The other is the path of leaping once more on the wave of the AI revolution. Han Dong-hoon asks: "Our parents' generation created miracles with bare hands. Is there any reason we cannot inherit that spirit of challenge?"
What he calls the "second land reform" and "second development of heavy and chemical industries" is not about imitating the past.
It is about inheriting that spirit and writing a new success myth with AI and cutting-edge technology. Just as land reform created "assets" for the people, now we must ensure that the people can possess new assets called data and technology.
Just as heavy and chemical industries made us a manufacturing powerhouse, we must now nurture AI, semiconductors, and biotechnology to become a technological hegemon.
His role model is the drive behind President Park Chung-hee's Five-Year Economic Development Plan. However, because the pace of change in the AI era is incomparably faster than before, he has proposed a "Two-Year Future Growth Plan" instead of a five-year one.
"Five years is too long. We must establish, review, and implement plans in one-year and two-year cycles. The president will directly serve as the situation room commander and direct the economic war." Just as President Park Chung-hee reviewed export dashboards each dawn, President Han Dong-hoon will review AI technology developments and global competitive conditions every day.
The economy is war, and the president is a commander. He promises not a president standing idle reading reports, but a president directing operations from the front lines.
The core of this plan is "strategic focus and concentration."
Linked to the five megacity strategy, he announced he would strategically distribute and concentrate industrial capacity currently concentrated in the capital region across five hub cities nationwide.
By designating "regulation-free zones" and introducing "tax-free funds" in each hub, he aims to create the conditions for companies to move to provincial areas and innovate freely.
This is the twenty-first-century version of the state-led development strategy that created heavy and chemical industrial zones and led industrialization in the past.
Ulsan did not become a city of automobiles and shipbuilding by chance. Gumi did not become the center of electronics by chance. It happened because the state strategically located and supported industries.
Han Dong-hoon aims to upgrade this strategy for the AI era. One city as a hub for AI semiconductors, another as the center for biotech AI, another as a testbed for autonomous vehicles. The vision is to make all of South Korea an experimental laboratory for AI innovation.
Han Dong-hoon speaks with confident conviction: "We can do this. We have the genes for it."
Scientists researching through the night, startup youth who challenge without fear of failure, talented people who lose out to none in the world. These are precisely the sources of South Korea's inner strength in which Han Dong-hoon believes.
Encoded in our DNA is the gene that says "we can."
A nation that rose from the ruins of war, a nation that overcame the IMF crisis through gold collection campaigns, a nation that astonished the world with K-quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have grown stronger with each crisis.
Before this great challenge of the AI revolution, we will surely succeed. He believes the government must serve as a priming pump.
Cutting taxes so companies can invest freely, removing unnecessary regulations, creating a safety net so they can recover from failure. Thus creating a virtuous cycle where companies grow, good jobs emerge, and the fruits return to the people. This is the second leap Han Dong-hoon envisions.
He emphasizes that amid the trend toward a bloc-based global economy, "Korea-US-Japan cooperation" must serve as the springboard for economic leaps.
In an age when "capital has a nationality," the strategy is to forge a technology alliance with the United States and establish an "economic NATO" with Japan, Australia, and others to jointly address supply chain crises. He warns against wasting time trapped in tired ideological debates. While we are shackled to the past and tear each other down, the world is racing ahead at the speed of light.
Some people criticize cooperation with Japan, calling it 'pro-Japan.' But consider this. Samsung Electronics could produce the world's best semiconductors only because Japanese materials, components, and equipment were essential. Building our pride means not dwelling on past wounds, but surpassing Japan in the future. Han Dong-hoon calls us to run toward that future.
Han Dong-hoon takes our hands and points to the future. 'There lies a land of new opportunity. Let us go there together.' His eyes carry the same fire that burned in those who dreamed the 1970s Yeongil Bay miracle.
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Kim Kyung-jin
Attorney · Former Member of the National Assembly · AI Policy Researcher
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