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South Korea passed one of Asia's first comprehensive AI laws, the AI Framework Act, and hosted the 2024 Seoul AI Safety Summit — developments tracked here daily.
In an era defined by AI, can work still be measured by the clock?
Hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight. An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers. She is locked in, fully absorbed, the way engineers get when a breakthrough is close. But she has to go home. The law says so. Yet something is disrupting the clock she races against. Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting what her hours are worth. On June 29, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung stood alongside the leaders of Samsung...
South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies
Samsung and SK Hynix fall by more than 10% amid renewed fears over AI spending and Chinese competition Business live – latest updates The sell-off in AI stocks has intensified, driving South Korea’s stock market down to its lowest level in three months. Investors continued to ditch chip stocks on Tuesday, amid rising concerns about the huge amount of borrowing among AI companies to fund their datacentre expansion plans. Continue reading...
Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix
Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK Hynix, sharing tips with his coworkers on…
Chip firms fall in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors
Trading on South Korea's Kospi index was paused temporarily on Tuesday morning after sliding by 8%.
AI stock sell-off deepens as investors dump chipmakers
SK Hynix and Samsung shares slide and trading halt triggered on South Korea’s Kospi
Top universities react to AI cheating scandals, yet concrete disciplinary steps remain elusive
As cheating cases involving artificial intelligence (AI) continue to surface at Korea's elite "SKY" universities --- Seoul National, Korea and Yonsei --- campuses are rushing to roll out countermeasures. Most responses focus on the individ ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1270#7598)
Cheating scandals at top universities prompt rethink of education in digital era
A string of artificial intelligence (AI)-related cheating scandals at Korea's prestigious "SKY" universities --- Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Korea University --- has sparked renewed scrutiny of higher education in the d ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1270#7599)
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts, with US private equity firm Brookfield agreeing […] This story continues at The Next Web
South Korea’s cash-rich winners of AI boom go on US buying spree
Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs
Did Alice Do Wrong? Cross-Cultural Differences in Student Perceptions of Generative AI Use in University Computing Education
arXiv:2607.19699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted urgent debates surrounding academic integrity and ethical use. This study examines cross-cultural differences in student perceptions of GenAI use, comparing responses from students at Canadian and South Korean universities. Using a scenario-based survey administered in Fall 2024, we analyzed how students judged the ethicality and rule compliance of AI-assisted coding practices. Resu
Samsung in talks to invest in Mistral at €20bn valuation
South Korean giant could invest as much as €1bn in French AI group seeking to be a leading alternative to US tech
Did Alice Do Wrong? Cross-Cultural Differences in Student Perceptions of Generative AI Use in University Computing Education
The rise of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted urgent debates surrounding academic integrity and ethical use. This study examines cross-cultural differences in student perceptions of GenAI use, comparing responses from students at Canadian and South Korean universities. Using a scenario-based survey administered in Fall 2024, we analyzed how students judged the ethicality and rule compliance of AI-assisted coding practices. Results reveal that Canadian students were consisten
How the War with Iran is Shaping Key U.S. Relations Beyond the Middle East
The U.S. war with Iran has had political, economic, and military implications that spread far beyond the Middle East. We asked five experts to assess how the war with Iran has affected U.S. bilateral relations with key countries that illustrate some of the global ramifications: South Korea, India, Ukraine, France, and the United Kingdom.Read more below. Jenny Town Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of 38 NorthSouth Korea has resisted aiding U.S. military operations to forcefull
Hackers were inside South Korea's diplomat training system for 9 months
Unidentified hackers compromised an online education system used by South Korea's diplomatic academy, stealing personal information belonging to former and current employees of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Wall Street drifts as AI stocks hold steadier after last week’s losses
Asian shares are mostly higher but South Korea's Kospi has fallen nearly 5% as investors unload more stocks linked to artificial intelligence.
Seoul AI ETF howler morphs into zombie volatility
Wild price swings already have watchdogs rueing their May approval of leveraged funds tracking mega-cap stocks SK Hynix and Samsung. But the limits they’re now imposing don’t address the root of ...
‘A casino for retail investors’: how leverage is driving world’s best-performing market
South Korean regulators fear single-stock leveraged ETFs are fuelling volatility
How Korean stocks turned from trusty bellwether to AI frenzy
Billions of dollars in leveraged bets on South Korea's AI darlings have warped a stock market once revered as a reliable barometer of global growth into a wild casino, confounding both regulators and ...
South Korea bill would require music distributors to screen tracks for content harmful to minors before release
If a track is judged harmful and its creator is under 19, the distributor must block it from release, according to The Korea Times. Source
SK Hynix South Korean shares jump 11% as Asia tech stocks rally
SK Hynix led a broad rally in Asian technology shares on Wednesday, tracking a rebound in U.S. semiconductor shares after a sharp selloff earlier this week.
The Republics and Their Alliance, If We Can Keep It: The United States and Republic of Korea’s Time-Forged and Battle-Tested Alliance
The U.S.–South Korea relationship is well institutionalized, rooted in shared values, mutual aims of national security, and cutting-edge business cooperation. Despite external and internal ...
Routinized data activism: Citizen data practices and everyday data citizenship in South Korea
Big Data & Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, July-September 2026. Based on ethnographic research with a grassroots civic hacking community in South Korea, this article examines how civic hackers enact data citizenship under the temporal and labor pressures of datafied societies. Drawing on a practice-oriented framework, ...
Summary: TGT’s 2026 ICML Papers
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held annually for over forty years, is among the most influential conferences in modern AI research. This year in Seoul, ICML is hosting its second workshop on Technical AI Governance Research (TAIGR), and several members of MIRI’s Technical Governance Team (TGT) will attend in July. This post summarizes […] The post Summary: TGT’s 2026 ICML Papers appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute .
AI-Driven Multi-Agent Simulation of Stratified Polyamory Systems: A Computational Framework for Optimizing Social Reproductive Efficiency
Contemporary societies face a severe crisis of demographic reproduction. Global fertility rates continue to decline precipitously, with East Asian nations exhibiting the most dramatic trends -- China's total fertility rate (TFR) fell to approximately 1.0 in 2023, while South Korea's dropped below 0.72. Simultaneously, the institution of marriage is undergoing structural disintegration: educated women rationally reject unions lacking both emotional fulfillment and economic security, while a growi