SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly three-quarters of South Korean consumers have tried at least one artificial intelligence service, underscoring how rapidly AI tools are becoming part of everyday life, according to a new survey released on Thursday. The study, conducted by Consumer Insight, a telecommunications research firm, found that 74 percent of mobile phone [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Assembly took a major step toward expanding climate protections on Thursday, approving a bill that formally defines “climate-vulnerable populations” and requires the government to prioritize their safety in national climate policy. The Special Committee on the Climate Crisis passed a bipartisan amendment to the country’s Carbon Neutrality [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator on Thursday raised its consumer alert level to “warning” after confirming secondary damages—including voice phishing and smishing—linked to last month’s massive personal data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said the escalation follows a rise in reported fraud attempts exploiting public anxiety [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s e-sports icon Lee Sang-hyeok, better known to millions of fans as Faker, said Thursday he is confident his League of Legends team, T1, can defeat an artificial intelligence opponent proposed by Elon Musk for next year. Speaking at a press conference in Seoul, Lee welcomed the tech industry’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign workers in South Korea surpassed 1.1 million in 2025 to reach a record high, with the proportion of employed international students also sharply up, a survey showed Thursday. As of May, there were 1.69 million foreigners aged 15 or older residing in Korea, up 8.4 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to provide artificial intelligence (AI) job-training to more than one million people by 2030, the government announced Thursday, outlining an expansive workforce initiative aimed at preparing the labor market for rapid technological change. The Ministry of Employment and Labor unveiled the plan — titled the “AI+ Competency-Up [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — KT has retrieved more than 12,000 small-cell base stations after the devices were linked to a recent unauthorized micro-payment fraud scheme, the telecom company said Thursday. The recall targets “femtocells,” ultra-small base stations used to boost indoor mobile coverage, after investigators found that illegally modified versions of the devices [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s twin and multiple-birth rates have surged to among the highest in the world, prompting experts to warn that the trend carries heightened medical risks for mothers and infants and requires a shift in government policy. According to a new report released Thursday by Bae Hye-won, a senior researcher [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to expand its national heritage–based industries into a ₩100 trillion ($75 billion) market over the next five years, positioning cultural legacy as a core driver of the country’s global soft power, the Korea Heritage Service (KHS) said Wednesday in its 2026 policy blueprint. The initiative comes amid [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — As governments around the world race to build artificial intelligence systems under national control, a new analysis suggests that telecom operators may emerge as the biggest beneficiaries of the shift toward so-called “sovereign AI.” In a report published Nov. 26, credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS said telecom companies are structurally [...]