South Korea to invest $ 46 million in Metaverse and blockchain next year

Next year's budget announced for Day 1 by the Finance and Economics Ministry on the 1st was $ 519 billion (about 510 trillion won), an increase of 8.3 percent this year. Among them, as part of the Digital New Deal project, the government will invest $ 20 million in the development of the metauniverse platform and $ 26 million in the development of blockchain technology related to digital security. (For)