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Impact Signals #170: Korea's 25.4 Trillion Won Prevention Budget, China's Fengyun Storm AI, Florida's CLARKE Drone Assessments, GoFundMe in Federal Court Two governments put money and machinery behind AI disaster prediction on the same day. South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety confirmed a 25.4 trillion won safety plan for 2027 with 65 percent of it aimed at prevention and an AI and IoT platform at its core, and the China Meteorological Administration released its first Fengyun satellite AI models, claiming four hours of lead time on severe storms. The US thread runs the opposite direction: a RAND count of 1,179 AI products pitched at emergency managers, one of which Florida's drone team actually runs as standard procedure, and a federal judge in Oregon weighing whether GoFundMe's AI-built charity pages were impersonation. Today's signal is the gap between what gets funded or announced and what has been adopted and validated in the field. --- Top Stories **1. South Korea Confirms a 25.4 Trillion Won Disaster-Safety Plan for 2027, Two-Thirds of It for Prevention and an AI-and-IoT Prediction Platform** South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety confirmed the 2027 National Safety Management Implementation Plan on October 29, 2026, after review by its 66th Safety Policy Coordination Committee. Financial News and Nocut News report the same core numbers: 25.4 trillion won (about $17.7 billion) across 451 projects in the proposed 2027 budget, with 16.5 trillion w…