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AI-Hub

National Information Society Agency (NIA)
closed / Overall score: n/a

AI-Hub is South Korea's national platform for AI training data, run by the National Information Society Agency (NIA) for the Ministry of Science and ICT. It publishes datasets built by companies and research groups under the government's data programme, in fields from Korean language and vision to healthcare and transport, alongside data other institutions contribute. Korean nationals apply to download each dataset, through the website or the aihubshell command-line tool.

Openness

1 high confidence
1.0
license
proprietary(usage policy reserves rights in the data, models and tool sources to NIA and the builders)
source
closed(hosted government platform

AI-Hub is a hosted government platform, and its code is not published. The aihubshell tool downloads data from it but cannot run the platform anywhere else.

  • https://www.aihub.or.kr/intrcn/guid/usagepolicy.do recorded 2026-10-08

    Rights in "데이터, AI 응용모델 및 데이터 저작도구의 소스" (data, AI application models and the source of data-authoring tools) rest with the building organizations and NIA.

  • https://www.aihub.or.kr/intrcn/intrcn.do recorded 2026-10-08

    "AI 허브는 과학기술정보통신부와 한국지능정보사회진흥원이 운영하는 국가 AI 개발 지원 플랫폼" (a national AI development platform run by the Ministry of Science and ICT and NIA), publishing programme datasets and "국내외 기관/기업에서 보유한 AI 학습용 데이터" (training data held by institutions and companies).

Adoption

not assessed

AI-Hub shows how many users marked each dataset as of interest but publishes no count of downloads or users for the platform. No reading was recorded.

Capability

2 medium confidence
2.0

AI-Hub holds the datasets it lists and serves them, once a download application is approved, through its website or a command-line tool that fetches a dataset by its key. Like UCI, it gives a dataset no persistent identifier with addressable versions, which PhysioNet does.

  • https://www.aihub.or.kr/aihubdata/data/view.do?dataSetSn=71953 recorded 2026-10-08

    "내국인만 데이터 신청이 가능합니다" (only Korean nationals may apply); a version history (1.0, 1.1) and the building company named; no DOI.

  • https://www.aihub.or.kr/devsport/apishell/list.do recorded 2026-10-08

    "서버에서 aihubshell을 사용하여 AI 허브의 데이터를 다운로드 받을 수 있습니다" (aihubshell downloads AI-Hub data); "데이터셋 다운로드 승인이 완료되어야 다운로드가 가능합니다" (only after download approval); an MCP server for dataset metadata.

  • https://www.aihub.or.kr/intrcn/intrcn.do recorded 2026-10-08

    "AI 허브는 과학기술정보통신부와 한국지능정보사회진흥원이 운영하는 국가 AI 개발 지원 플랫폼" (a national AI development platform run by the Ministry of Science and ICT and NIA), publishing programme datasets and "국내외 기관/기업에서 보유한 AI 학습용 데이터" (training data held by institutions and companies).

Verified 2026-10-08