Hanwha Systems launched a 30-ton-class unmanned surface vessel near Busan for sea trials of AI-based autonomous navigation, testing narrow-waterway navigation, rough-sea operation, and long-range auto…
Seoul's KOSPI index plunged 5.4% on Wednesday as investors reassessed the prospects of AI-related investments, dragging down tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. The sell-off followed Wall St…
Seoul stocks opened 2.7 percent lower on July 8, 2026, amid global technology losses and investor reassessment of the AI trade, with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix declining. The KOSPI later pared l…
South Korea policy chief Kim Yong-beom defended a 10-year national AI strategy on July 6, tying semiconductor, AI data-center and physical-AI projects to long-term investment plans from Samsung Electr…
Samsung Electronics reported record profits for April-June 2026, with operating profit of 89.4 trillion won and revenue of 171 trillion won, driven by surging demand for AI memory chips. The company's…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a 454 billion-won ($293 million) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors for AI servers to a U.S. customer, likely a major cloud provider. The single-year dea…
South Korea and Japan agreed on June 28 to deepen defense cooperation including artificial intelligence, as announced by Defense Ministers Ahn Gyu-back and Shinjiro Koizumi in Seoul. The bilateral agr…
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…
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 became the fourth nation to partner with OpenAI on AI security, signing an MOU to develop global evaluation frameworks and risk assessment systems tailored to the Korean context. The colla…
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won urged employees to adopt AI agents as part of a companywide AI transformation, calling for a "one-person, one-agent" initiative at the 2026 Icheon Forum. Chey said more …
South Korea will invest 22.5 billion won (US$14.7 million) through 2029 to develop AI models tailored for research and development, the ministry of science and ICT announced. The funding will support …
South Korean Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon announced May 29 the government will "double down" on support for the domestic AI sector to become a "full stack" supplier, including development of a fron…
A government survey released Thursday found that 38.9 percent of South Koreans used generative AI in 2025, a 14.9 percentage point increase from the previous year and the third consecutive annual rise…