A single amateur hacker, identified as a student at South China University of Technology in Guangdong, allegedly carried out last week's cyberattack on some of South Korea's biggest banks using the op…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said it has no plans to replace the term "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence," or SI, distancing Seoul from a U.S. terminology push. "There has…
Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul said Wednesday that personal data tied to 850,000 members may have been stolen, after South Korea's internet security agency KISA flagged the suspected breach on Tues…
Two South Korean megachurches, Seoul's Yoido Full Gospel Church and Sarang Church, are investigating suspected cyberattacks that may have exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of congrega…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday that officials are probing a series of bank hacks that authorities believe were likely carried out by AI agents, with the personal data of at least 68…
Hackers may have used advanced AI tools to automate a credential-stuffing attack on a Shinhan Bank loan-broker inquiry platform between September 29 and September 30, 2026, exposing personal and finan…
South Korea issued new guidelines that mandate detailing AI tools, ban hidden prompts, and restrict external AI use for sensitive data, according to Chosun. Separately, an experiment at the Internatio…
Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion Report found that worldwide AI usage reached 18.8% of the working-age population in June 2026, up about 1% from the first quarter, with the UAE at 73.3% and Singapore a…
Seoul National University embedded its graduation photos with StealCut Protect, an anti-deepfake technology from an SNU-alumni-founded startup, marking the first use of the tool for a university gradu…
South Korea's Climate, Energy and Environment Minister Kim Seong-hwan said AI could nearly triple national electricity demand, and the country will not meet that increase by expanding coal or gas powe…
South Korea and five Central Asian countries adopted the Seoul Declaration at the inaugural Korea-Central Asia Summit in Seoul, setting a 30-year vision for cooperation on critical minerals, supply ch…
South Korea will let AI researchers fulfill military service at large corporate laboratories starting in 2027, reopening a route closed since 2013, but only four companies — LG Electronics, Samsung El…
GPT-6 Astra reverse engineered the custom challenge-code format of the country guessing game Guessterra purely from example tokens, without access to source code, according to a first-person account b…
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed launching a regional AI Talent program with South Korea to train artificial intelligence specialists for Central Asian countries during the first Centra…
South Korea and five Central Asian countries adopted the Seoul Declaration on Wednesday, establishing a 30-year cooperation framework that includes critical minerals, energy, trade and emerging techno…
South Korean Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said Wednesday that Korea "cannot afford to slow down the pace of AI development," arguing that a country catching up while creating new markets faces diff…
South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Kyunghoon Bae said Wednesday that South Korea "cannot afford to slow down AI development now," writing on X that "there is a fundamen…
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) channeled roughly $440 million in official development assistance to the five Central Asian states between 1992 and 2025, with education taking the l…
South Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy hosted the Korea-OECD Seminar on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Paris on Tuesday, gathering policy officials from 28 countries and org…
The Korea Internet & Security Agency, operating under South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, is developing version 2.0 of its "AI Security Guide" to set security rules for autonomous AI agents acr…