All companiesCOMPANY / FRONTIER COVERAGESouth KoreaTYPECompanySIGNALS3FIRST SEENSep 21, 2026LAST SEENOct 6, 2026Recent signalsSouth Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B program to develop a frontier AI model starting as early as March 2027 and will open a competition to select participants (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald) Oct 6, 2026A profile of South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times) Sep 28, 2026South Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs instead of conventional military service (Jo He-rim/The Korea Herald) Sep 21, 2026RELATEDAI TalentALL COMPANIESLATEST SIGNAL