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Free AI for a nation
An admirable ambition, and a complex test of public value. What the service delivers, and how it earns trust, protects privacy and serves sovereignty, will decide what it is worth.
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Part of Free AI for a nation
Budget per citizen is not cost per active user
Spread over every resident, the proposed 2027 budget for free AI is a few thousand won a year. That is the fiscal burden of making it available to everyone, not what the service costs for each person who uses it.
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Part of Free AI for a nation
Agents are a different workload, and waiting is the only price
One measured coding-agent session wrote about 95 times the output of an assumed chat user's day, which is why agents need their own forecast. The rules forbid charging and usage caps, so if peak demand exceeds usable capacity, slower answers and queues do the rationing.