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Anthropic has officially opened its Seoul office, revealing that Korea's Claude usage is 3.5 times higher than population-based expectations — with Naver, Nexon, Samsung SDS, and LG CNS already among its major enterprise adopters.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang returned to Seoul for a packed multi-day visit that mixed Korean barbecue, pork belly dinners, and PC bang stops with high-stakes meetings across the country's AI, semiconductor, and tech ecosystem.
From a labor union honoring the May 18 Democratization Movement to a heated debate over South Korea's constitution in the face of North Korea's "two-state theory," and a major AI training push in Korea's industrial heartland — here's what's happening across the peninsula this week.
South Korea launched a new tripartite AI labor committee, Korea's top business lobby raised union law concerns with the ILO chief, and Daegu unveiled a bold deep tech startup city plan — all on the same day.
From Seoul's AI-focused fashion forum to Karina's Prada moment at the Met Gala and the rise of Hoka and On in Korea's sneaker market, the global fashion industry is being reshaped — and Korea is right at the center of it all.