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4 days ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( May 13, 2025, 05:10 GMT | Insight) -- Whoever wins the June 3 presidential election in South Korea, the future government will make strengthening the country’s artificial intelligence capabilities a top priority, sharply increasing investment while significantly reducing regulations to achieve this goal, according to official policy pledges by the two leading candidates in the election.Whoever wins the June 3 presidential election in South Korea, the future government will...
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4 days ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( May 12, 2025, 07:12 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s government hopes the country can lead others in developing industrial artificial intelligence tools, thanks to its highly advanced manufacturing capabilities, but industry experts call for caution against excessive optimism.
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2 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( May 2, 2025, 07:39 GMT | Comment) -- With the global AI competition intensifying, South Korea’s government and companies are betting big on a reemerging opportunity to make significant inroads into the global artificial intelligence sector.
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2 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( April 28, 2025, 06:41 GMT | Insight) -- The leading candidate for South Korea’s presidential election in early June promised his government will take steps to safeguard the country’s semiconductor industry against multiple challenges.
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3 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( April 25, 2025, 04:22 GMT | Insight) -- Naver has been reported to South Korea's antitrust regulator by an association of local newspapers for allegations including the unauthorized use of news content in training its large language models, amid increasing discontent over copyright issues involving AI companies.
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3 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( April 23, 2025, 06:24 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s media-content regulator said takedown requests for suspected deepfake sex-crime videos filed during the first quarter of this year surged 167 percent from a year earlier, reflecting the growing negative effects of the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies.
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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( April 16, 2025, 05:05 GMT | Insight) -- Amid growing attention to the concept of AI sovereignty, South Korea’s KT Corp has announced the successful completion of a project to establish an LLM platform specifically tailored for Thailand, which also includes an operational system to manage the entire process of training, deploying, and running LLMs, and a GPU farm.
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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( April 14, 2025, 08:19 GMT | Insight) -- In a strong endorsement of AI’s beneficial features, South Korea’s judiciary has decided to launch a project to build an artificial intelligence platform comprising multiple models, applications and related services for use by judges and other court employees involved in handling trials. The document was prepared for an internal meeting held in October 2024, and has recently been published for the public.
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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Choonsik Yoo
By Choonsik Yoo ( April 14, 2025, 06:39 GMT | Insight) -- South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, widely tipped to be the country’s next president, promised today to sharply increase government support to achieve the goal of making the country one of the global leaders in the artificial intelligence race if he wins the June 3 election.
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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Jenny Lee |Wooyoung Lee |Choonsik Yoo
April 9, 2025, 07:35 GMT | Comment President Yoon Suk Yeol’s dramatic downfall earlier this month — ousted by the Constitutional Court for declaring martial law in what it called a “betrayal of democratic principles” — has upended South Korea’s policy trajectory, setting the stage for a snap presidential election that could mark a turning point in how the country regulates its digital economy.
