Nam, C.H. JACoW Publishing Geneva, Switzerland The speaker will present progress and results for laser-driven GeV electron acceleration. The achieved energy and beam quality will be discussed. Present limitations and future directions will be pointed out. In addition the use of Peta-Watt scale laser for non-linear Compton scattering experiments shall be presented. The talk shall present an overview of major progress world-wide while explaining in more detail the progress and ambition in Korea.