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As industries converge with ICT (Information Communication Technologies) playing the role of a catalyst, a new paradigm of industries is emerging as a new-found concept of industries offering brand-new values and services. However, Korea is suffering from a sluggish economic growth without job growth due to its high proportion of the service sector in the entire economy and a relative slowdown in the growth of the manufacturing sector. The country, moreover, lacks a new growth engine that will give a boost to the national economy down the road. This paper attempts to predict the future economic effects and social and cultural changes that the future smart convergence era will bring to Korea in line with its definition of ‘smart convergence’ and proposes ways to develop mid- and long- term ‘smart convergence’ industries of Korea so that Korea can secure its new growth engine for its future economic development.