Grammar
-(으)ㄹ 계획이다
Meaning
Intermediate-(eu)l gyehoegida
Reports something as a plan that has been formed but not carried out. 계획 is the noun for a plan, so the whole ending says it is somebody's plan to do this. In policy and business reporting it marks the line between what has happened and what has only been decided to attempt: 시행할 계획입니다 says a scheme is meant to start, not that it has started. It presents the plan as the subject's own intention, which is why a sentence can carry 계획이다 and still go on to say the timing is not settled.
Form
Verb stem + -(으)ㄹ 계획이다: -ㄹ 계획이다 after a vowel-final stem (공개할 계획이다), -을 계획이다 after a consonant (받을 계획이다), and a stem ending in ㄹ simply keeps it (만들다 → 만들 계획이다). Headlines and plain-style bodies write 계획이다, polite bodies 계획입니다, and the past 계획이었다 says that was the plan at the time, usually implying it changed. Because 계획 is an ordinary noun the same content also appears as 계획을 밝혔다 or 계획을 세웠다, and in front of a noun as -(으)ㄹ 계획인 N.
Examples
다음 달에 결과를 공개할 계획입니다.
They plan to release the results next month.
Common mistakes & nuance
The pair to keep straight is 계획이다 and 예정이다. 예정 asserts that a schedule exists, usually with a date attached; 계획 asserts an intention the subject may still revise, which is why a body that has not fixed the timing writes 계획이다. Treating the two as synonyms makes the sentence sound like a firmer commitment than it made. Neither one reports that anything was done. The other habit worth resisting is reading 계획이다 as a promise to the reader: it describes the plan of whoever the sentence is about, and news usually attributes it (…할 계획이라고 밝혔다), which puts the claim in that body's mouth rather than the paper's.
Similar grammar
- -(으)ㄹ 예정이다
The closest neighbour, and the one worth reading for. 예정 is a fixed schedule, normally dated; 계획 is an intention still open to revision. When one notice carries both, the 예정 items are the ones with dates on them and the 계획 items are the ones without. Neither says the action happened, so the choice between them is about how settled the timing is, not about how likely the outcome is.
- -기로 하다
-기로 했다 reports the moment of deciding — an agreement was reached, a resolution was taken — while -(으)ㄹ 계획이다 reports the standing plan that results from it. News tends to use the first for what came out of a meeting (조정하기로 했습니다) and the second for what a body intends going forward (조정할 계획입니다). Both leave the action itself undone.