The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport announced on December 15, 2021 (Wed) its plan to strengthen the competitiveness of the drone industry through a press release. The government added that it would expand the domestic market to about 1 trillion won by 2025 by selecting the drone industry as a leading project for innovative growth in the 4th industrial revolution. In particular, a research project to review the installation of a drone identification device included a 'Creation of a safe drone operation environment,' which is the second task of the major four tasks (from June 2022), strengthening punishment for illegally flying drones (from December 2021), and the anti-drone intelligent technology development project in preparation for threats are multi-ministerial projects, with a budget of about 42 billion won from 2021 to 2025 being organized and executed.

The related press release is as follows:

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