AS10043 MIC-AS-KR Ministry of Science and ICT

MIC-AS-KR is registered to the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT — the

central-government department responsible for research and development policy, telecoms and

broadcasting regulation, spectrum, and the country's digital-government and AI strategy. The

MIC handle preserves an earlier incarnation, the Ministry of Information and Communication,

which was folded into successor ministries in later reorganisations.

What it's used for

• The ministry's own connectivity: internal departmental systems and the public-facing services it operates directly, alongside links into Korea's government network infrastructure.

Notable

• Government, plainly, and the routing is that of a small end site rather than of a national backbone. RIS observes 2 IPv4 prefixes carrying 512 addresses — 58.184.108.0/24 and 210.95.88.0/24 — behind 2 observed neighbours. Two /24s, dual-homed, announcing nothing for anyone else.
• The scale is worth dwelling on, because it is easy to over-read a ministry. A department that sets national ICT policy does not need a large public address footprint: Korea's agencies sit behind a consolidated government network, and the ministry's own AS carries the slice it administers directly. The number here reflects an administrative boundary, not the ministry's importance or its reach.
• The two /24s come from unrelated ranges, consistent with space assigned in different eras and simply retained.

Interesting

• Ministries reorganise more often than routing registries do. A stale handle such as MIC is a genuine historical marker — but it names the department that was, not the one that holds the number today.