SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has issued a warning regarding the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) model DeepSeek, citing significant security vulnerabilities, including the unrestricted sharing of personal data with advertisers and inconsistencies in responses to sensitive questions based on language settings. In a statement released on February [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — In a vocational training center in Seoul’s Jung district, Shin Hae-cheong, 72, carefully measures wallpaper and prepares paste for his latest assignment. A real estate agent by trade, Shin traveled from his provincial home to the capital to earn a wallpapering certification — what he hopes will be his ticket [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment on Thursday joined many other government ministries in blocking access to the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) service DeepSeek amid concerns about user data collection. The ministry blocked access to DeepSeek from its internet-connected PCs from 9 a.m. on the day, though it did not take [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has acquired a global certification for information security in the automobile industry for the first time as a memory company. The South Korean chip giant said all of its domestic sites in Icheon, Bundang and Cheongju have been awarded the Trusted Information Security [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The finance ministry plans to block access to the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) service DeepSeek, a ministry official said Thursday, in the latest of Seoul’s restrictions on the use of the service among officials amid data collection concerns. “Due to multiple technical concerns raised about DeepSeek from home and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading South Korean companies and institutions are increasingly restricting the use of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence model, amid concerns over its excessive data collection practices. Kakao, which recently announced an official partnership with OpenAI, became the first major South Korean IT company to prohibit DeepSeek’s use for internal operations, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Acting President Choi Sang-mok said Wednesday that DeepSeek has emerged as a “fresh shock,” forecasting that the latest artificial intelligence (AI) model from the Chinese startup could reshape the industrial landscape. “A Chinese company recently unveiled its AI model, DeepSeek R1, to deliver high performance at a low cost. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. on Tuesday announced partnership with OpenAI to use ChatGPT on its new artificial intelligence (AI) service, joining a global alliance led by the U.S. AI company amid intensifying competition in the global AI market. “I am happy to share our partnership with OpenAI [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on February 3 that a new spacecraft propulsion system it has developed will be launched into space aboard a satellite on South Korea’s Nuri launch vehicle. A research team led by Choe Won-ho, a professor in KAIST’s Department of Nuclear [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will collaborate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of its broader strategies to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. SK Telecom will join the MIT GenAI Impact Consortium, an industry-academia initiative aimed at exploring the [...]