South Korea’s National Assembly has passed a bill stripping AI-powered digital textbooks of their legal status as official teaching materials. The amendment narrows the legal definition of textbooks to printed books and e-books, excluding “learning support software using intelligent information technology.” This reclassifies AI-powered textbooks as just another type of educational material, not official textbooks, leaving schools without financial support for AI textbook subscriptions. The new classification takes effect immediately upon promulgation. For background, the previous Yoon Suk Yeol government planned to fully introduce AI textbooks to some elementary, middle, and high school grades and subjects from the first semester of this year, but the plan was rejected. In response, the Ministry of Education shifted to a school-by-school voluntary adoption model. Currently, the adoption rate of AI textbooks across schools hovers at around 30 percent.
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