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Kim Yong-beom

Chief of Staff for Policy at South Korea's Presidential Office; former vice finance minister

The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of any single company alone. They are built on an industrial foundation accumulated collectively by the Korean people over the past half-century. [...] part of those gains should be structurally returned to the entire public. That is the legitimacy and principle behind the design.

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AI Verified Multiple reliable reports attribute this statement to Kim Yong-beom’s May 11–12, 2026 Facebook post. Korean coverage quotes him saying, in substance, “AI 인프라 시대의 과실은 특정 기업만의 결과가 아니다… 반세기에 걸쳐 전 국민이 함께 쌓아온 산업 기반… 그 과실의 일부는 전 국민에게 구조적으로 환원돼야 한다… 이것이 설계의 정당성이자 원칙,” and English-language reports render the same idea as “part of those gains should be structurally returned to all citizens… That is the legitimacy and principle of the design.” That makes the supplied English a faithful translation with an omission, correctly attributed to Kim Yong-beom, although I could not directly open the Korea Herald URL itself. ([heraldk.com](https://heraldk.com/2026/05/11/%EA%B9%80%EC%9A%A9%EB%B2%94-%E2%80%9Cai-%EC%B4%88%EA%B3%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%9D%B5-%EA%B5%AD%EB%AF%BC%EB%B0%B0%EB%8B%B9%EA%B8%88-%EC%9B%90%EC%B9%99-%EB%85%BC%EC%9D%98%ED%95%B4%EC%95%BC%E2%80%9D/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Verified. The Korea Herald source (article 10736418) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search returned verbatim excerpts from that same article confirming the quote: Kim Yong-beom (presidential chief of staff for policy) said "the fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of any single company alone," that they are "built on an industrial foundation accumulated collectively by the Korean people over the past half-century," and that "part of those gains should be structurally returned to the entire public." Author attribution is correct (Kim Yong-beom, South Korea Presidential Office). Year 2026 is current. Vote "for" aligns with the statement: Kim supports redistributing AI-era gains to the public via a dividend, which is the core principle of the statement (note: Kim's actual proposal is a national/Korean dividend from excess tax revenue rather than global equity, so the scope/mechanism is narrower than the statement, but the directional support is correct). Corroborated by Yahoo Finance, Tom's Hardware, UPI, and Korea Times coverage. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 4mo ago

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