South Korea
- Participations in EU-funded quantum projects
- 8 (rank 35 of 47 countries)
- EU-funded projects with a participant in the country (CORDIS)
- 5
- Organisations in these projects
- 7
- EU contribution
- EUR 2.9 million
Definitions: Participations by country; Rank of a country by participations; Projects and organisations by country; Net EU contribution to participants by country
How projects are counted: the figure above is the number of EU-funded quantum projects in CORDIS with at least one participant in South Korea, the definition used across the country pages. National projects are counted separately below. The projects listing filtered by country shows the records whose own country (coordinator or host) is South Korea, EU and national together, and the map counts portal records the same way, so their numbers differ.
Quantum at a glance
- National strategy and programmes
- None recorded in the public investment registry yet.
- Top partner countries in EU-funded projects
- Germany (5 shared projects), Austria (3 shared projects), Italy (3 shared projects), Finland (2 shared projects), Netherlands (2 shared projects) · collaboration in the policy dossier
- Most active organisations
- Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (2 EU quantum projects), Kookmin University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (1 EU quantum project), National Research Foundation of Korea (1 EU quantum project)
- Organisations on this portal
- 1 companies, 5 research organisations and universities, 1 other organisations (of 7 in EU-funded quantum projects)
- Quantum infrastructure
- No entry located in this country in the infrastructure catalogue; pilot lines and EU-wide programmes are listed there without a country.
- Education and training
- Master degrees: 0; other courses and schools: 0 (course directory)
- Open quantum jobs
- 0 open positions in this country on the portal
- More about South Korea
- EU Quantum Europe Strategy tracker · Quantum in South Korea, in plain words
National quantum landscape
No national programme, agency or centre of South Korea has been compiled from official sources on this portal yet.
Context: population, economy and research spending
| Indicator | Value | Year | Eurostat dataset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population on 1 January | Not published by Eurostat | - | tps00001 |
| Gross domestic product, current prices | Not published by Eurostat | - | nama_10_gdp |
| Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD), share of GDP | 5.13% | 2024 | rd_e_gerdtot |
| Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) | EUR 88.82 billion | 2024 | rd_e_gerdtot |
| Measure | Value | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Participations per million inhabitants | - | - |
| EU contribution per inhabitant | - | - |
| EU contribution per EUR 1 billion of GDP | - | - |
| EU quantum contribution as a share of GERD | 0.000319% | Yearly averages: EU contribution over the 13 start years 2015 to 2027, GERD over 10 years with figures, 2015 to 2024 |
Method: the CORDIS figures are totals over all EU-funded quantum projects in the catalogue (projects starting 2015 to 2027); population and GDP are the latest single year Eurostat publishes for South Korea. Figures per inhabitant and per unit of GDP therefore set cumulative quantum funding against one year of population or output: they correct for the size of the country, not for time. The share of GERD compares yearly averages instead: the EU quantum contribution divided by the number of project start years, against the average yearly GERD over the years of the same span that have a figure. The time windows of the two sources differ, so read these as indicators of relative scale, not as budget shares. Provisional and estimated values are marked as Eurostat flags them. A dash means no figure or no EU contribution; "less than" marks a positive figure too small to show at this precision.
Source: Eurostat, datasets tps00001, nama_10_gdp, rd_e_gerdtot (retrieved 2026-10-21), reused under the Eurostat copyright notice. The normalised figures are calculated by this portal from Eurostat and CORDIS data; Eurostat is not responsible for them.
Quantum areas
| Quantum area | Projects |
|---|---|
| Quantum computing and simulation | 2 |
| Quantum communication | 1 |
| Quantum sensing and metrology | 2 |
5 distinct projects in all; a project with several areas counts in each. 2 projects are placed by the taxonomy rules on their titles or a keyword suggestion, pending review (they have no reviewed technology tag). Pillars follow one method across the portal: the confirmed classification of a project where there is one, else the taxonomy rules on its title, else the snapshot keyword suggestion when a keyword matched; a project that matches none of them is "Not placed in a pillar" and is counted apart, not under enabling technologies. A project in several pillars is split evenly between them; post-quantum cryptography is shown apart.
Research output
- Quantum publications in 2025
- 569 (+70.4% since 2021)
- Quantum patent families, earliest priority 2020 to 2024
- 575 (partial: 84% of the publication months read so far)
Publications: OpenAlex (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-25; patent families: EPO Open Patent Services. A work or family with several countries counts for each. All countries, method and the patent independence bands
Funding over time
EU-funded quantum projects with at least one participant from South Korea, by start year and application pillar. The last two years are still being filled.
- Quantum sensing and metrology
- Quantum communication
- Quantum computing and simulation
Explore funding trends for South Korea by platform, supply-chain segment or kind of organisation, in projects or EU contribution.
Place in the supply chain
Companies from South Korea taking part in EU-funded quantum projects of each supply-chain segment, and their share of all companies in that segment. Segments are keyword matches on project titles; public project data, not a census of suppliers.
| Segment | Companies from South Korea | All companies | Share | Most active company here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cryogenics and cooling | 0 | 5 | 0% | - |
| Photonics, lasers and optics | 1 | 117 | 1% | - |
| Control electronics and cryo-CMOS | 0 | 24 | 0% | - |
| Materials, fabrication and foundry | 0 | 82 | 0% | - |
| Qubit hardware platforms | 0 | 76 | 0% | - |
| Quantum software and algorithms | 0 | 72 | 0% | - |
| Quantum communication and security systems | 1 | 201 | 0% | - |
| Quantum sensors and metrology devices | 0 | 111 | 0% | - |
European quantum supply chain · Technology map: supply-chain view
Organisations on this portal
Published on this portal: 7 of the 7 organisations from this country in these projects (Research organisation 3, Higher education 2, Company 1, Public body 1). With the most EU quantum projects:
- Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Research organisation 2 EU quantum projects
- Kookmin University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Research organisation 1 EU quantum project
- National Research Foundation of Korea Public body 1 EU quantum project
- Pukyonguniversity Industry University Cooperation Foundation Research organisation 1 EU quantum project
- Sk Telecom Co LTD Company 1 EU quantum project
- University Industry Foundation Yonsei University Higher education · SME 1 EU quantum project
- Yonsei University Higher education 1 EU quantum project
Quantum infrastructure
No entry for this country in the infrastructure catalogue; EU-wide programmes such as EuroQCI are listed there.
Quantum infrastructure in Europe, by category
National sources
No national open-data source of this country is connected yet. Every source the portal reads, with its licence, is listed on the data sources page.
Regional and cohesion funding
Quantum-related projects co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, Cohesion Fund), selected and managed by national and regional authorities and located in this country according to the source. They are not in CORDIS and not part of the EU research figures above. Sources and methods: data sources page.
Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Read weekly, last read 28 Oct 2026 (5 days ago). The record at the source is authoritative.
No Kohesio project located in this country is published on the portal.
Sources and coverage of this profile
Where each part of this profile comes from, the period it covers, how complete it is and when it was last verified. "Unknown" and "none recorded" mean that the portal holds no verified data, not that the figure is zero.
| Part of the profile | Source | Period | Coverage | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU-funded quantum projects | CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union | Projects starting 2015 to 2027 | Every EU-funded quantum project with a participant in the country | 2026-10-16 |
| National quantum landscape | Official pages of ministries, agencies, programmes and centres | As stated on each page | None recorded (unknown, not zero) | Unknown |
| National programmes and public investment | Public investment registry (official announcements) | As announced | None recorded (unknown, not zero) | 2026-10-27 |
| Quantum infrastructure | Infrastructure catalogue (EuroHPC, EuroQCI and official pages) | Current status of each entry | None recorded (unknown, not zero) | 2026-10-27 |
| Post-quantum cryptography guidance | PQC guide (national cyber security authorities) | Current guidance | Unknown | Unknown |
| National funding sources | National funding inventory (#426) | Per source | Unknown: no national funder has been checked yet | Unknown |
| Population, economy and research spending | Eurostat | Latest year published per indicator | Population, GDP and GERD | 2026-10-21 |
Something wrong or missing for South Korea? Suggest a correction with an official source; an editor reviews every suggestion before anything changes.
Next steps
Policy dossier for South Korea (printable, with JSON export) · Build a consortium shortlist with partners from other countries · Compare with another country · Follow the money: awards and outputs of projects with a participant in South Korea · Country map · All countries
CORDIS projects whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (retrieved 2026-10-16), reused under the European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU). No endorsement by the source is implied.