South Korea's government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about building a second chip cluster, driven by explosive AI demand that could require new fab construction by 2034-2035. Pre…
South Korea's government is negotiating large-scale semiconductor investments with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with an announcement expected soon. Presidential policy adviser Kim Yong-beom cited…
Siemens Digital Industries CEO Cedrik Neike said South Korea's factory data gives it a unique advantage in industrial AI, and announced a partnership with Naver Cloud to bring localized AI tools to Ko…
MSCI kept South Korea off its developed market watchlist, delaying potential index-driven inflows, but analysts remain bullish on the country's stock market due to AI-related momentum. BNY strategist …
South Korea's presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom called for aggressive investment in AI infrastructure, including electricity, land, and industrial ecosystems, to boost the country's potential gr…
A senior U.S. State Department official, Russ Headlee, said South Korea's requirements for physical isolation of government servers and blanket data localization policies are barriers to the country's…
A senior U.S. official cited South Korea's physical isolation of government servers and data localization policies as barriers to AI advancement, urging a shift toward modernized digital regulations. …
South Korea ranked sixth in the inaugural QS World Future Skills Index 2027, scoring 93.4, behind the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Germany and Canada. The index reveals a mismatch between Korea's strong…
South Korea's top economic policymaker Kim Yong-beom warned that the AI-driven semiconductor boom could inflate housing prices as excess liquidity flows into real estate, urging a normalization of pro…
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will meet Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Seoul on Wednesday to discuss economic cooperation, artificial intelligence, defense ties, …
South Korea's military is developing an AI-based medical system to address a severe shortage of military doctors, with new commissions dropping 56% this year to 304. The Armed Forces Medical Command h…
South Korea's exports surged 60.4% year-on-year in the first 20 days of June to a record $62 billion, driven by a near-tripling of semiconductor shipments to $25.5 billion amid AI-fueled global demand…
South Korean retail investors are using Hong Kong-based platforms to buy leveraged semiconductor ETFs, seeking higher returns from the AI and chips boom. The CSOP 2X leveraged ETFs tracking Samsung El…
South Korea's early June exports surged 85.9% year-over-year to $28.6 billion, driven by a 205.8% jump in semiconductor exports to $11.1 billion, as AI-fueled demand for high-bandwidth memory chips fr…
A Bank of Korea report reveals that despite 51.8% of South Korean workers using generative AI, productivity has not improved meaningfully over three years. The study identifies four reasons for the di…
Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in June 2026, spiking global oil prices, but the U.S. depends on the strait for only 2% of its petroleum, while Asia relies on it for up to 90% of crude i…
South Korean lawmakers pledged parliamentary support for expanding economic ties with Uzbekistan into advanced industries such as artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as supply chains for cri…
South Korea's Ministry of Data and Statistics launched the 2025 Economic Census on June 1, running through July 22, to assess the nation's economic condition and identify future growth engines. This i…
India and South Korea held ministerial talks on expanding cooperation in digital governance, e-governance, and AI in public services, discussing a proposed MoU covering e-governance, AI applications, …
The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) released the GIST 2217-Bus Test System, an open simulation model of South Korea's national power grid built from publicly available map data and …