SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior South Korean officials on Monday pledged to speed the adoption of artificial intelligence across the agriculture and food sectors, positioning so-called “physical A.I.” as a key response to rural labor shortages and an aging farming population. Bae Kyung-hoon, the deputy prime minister and minister of science and information and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics said it will unveil a new generation of AI-powered kitchen appliances at CES 2026, introducing what it calls the world’s first home appliance equipped with Google’s latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini. Ahead of the world’s largest consumer electronics show, which opens Jan. 6 in Las Vegas, Samsung Electronics [...]
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. 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) — 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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies’ earnings recorded a 20 percent on-year gain in 2024 on increased exports of semiconductors, government data showed Tuesday. The combined before-tax net profit of South Korean companies reached 181.9 trillion won (US$123.9 billion) last year, up 20.6 percent from 150.8 trillion won tallied in 2023, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Ministry of Justice said Monday it has introduced an artificial intelligence–based behavior analysis system at the National Forensic Psychiatric Hospital to better identify early signs of violent or self-harming behavior among patients undergoing compulsory treatment. The system monitors individuals with severe mental illness in real time, detecting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean artificial intelligence teams competing to build a “national AI” model are lagging far behind global competitors in solving advanced mathematics problems, according to a new study released on Monday. A research team led by Kim Jong-rak, a mathematics professor at Sogang University, evaluated five domestic large language [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Early-stage entrepreneurs using artificial intelligence to solve industrial problems are beginning to see tangible results, propelled by TeX-Corps (Tech EXploration Corps) — a commercialization program modeled after the U.S. National Science Foundation’s I-Corps that pushes researchers to validate their ideas through rapid, intensive customer discovery. The program, designed to help [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The central district of Daejeon said Thursday it will begin analyzing visitor traffic around Seongsimdang, the city’s landmark bakery that draws more than 10 million visitors a year, using artificial intelligence and LiDAR technology. The district conducted a public demonstration Wednesday in front of Seongsimdang’s main store in Daeheung-dong with [...]