Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
The programme is sold as free AI for 52 million citizens. The ministry's own budget document shows zero cash this year, 512 GPUs in kind, and capacity the ministry itself scopes at 10 million users.
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SK Telecom, KT and Kakao were selected on 28 August from six applicants. Contracts are due in September and the launch is a year-end target — roughly 170 GPUs per operator to serve a country.
Aug 28, 2026
This is a supply-chain report, not a launch — and the difference between stable mass production and the start of mass production is doing a lot of work in the coverage.
Aug 25, 2026
Semiconductors reached $26.03bn of a $55.21bn total — just over 47% of everything the country shipped in the period.
Aug 21, 2026
A 40 trillion won buy-and-cancel programme, and a shareholder-return policy rewritten from "within 50% of free cash flow" to "over 50%."
Aug 19, 2026
A 47% rise in five years explains why the AI story has become a financing story. Korea's contractors are pivoting into it anyway.
Aug 16, 2026
The agreement spans robots, an 80 MW AI factory and autonomous vehicles. What exists today is a joint task force and a schedule.
Aug 16, 2026
The President ordered the Defence Ministry to clear Gwangju Air Base for a semiconductor complex. No operator, no capacity and no groundbreaking date have been named.
Aug 10, 2026
A 956 billion won order for reciprocating generators — the company's largest ever. Someone is buying a power plant rather than waiting in an interconnection queue.
Aug 10, 2026
A 2.5-trillion-won facility in Haenam, led by Samsung SDS, with 40 megawatts approved. That is roughly a fiftieth of the gigawatt campuses the phrase "national AI centre" invites you to picture.
Aug 3, 2026
July semiconductor exports hit $41 billion, the second month above $40 billion, and pushed total exports to $98.89 billion. The percentage measures how bad last July was.
Aug 1, 2026
Instead of soil probes and weather models, SF-Olive reads electrical biomarkers from stems and leaves, with on-device AI judging water stress in a tenth of a second.
Jul 27, 2026
A third-party share allotment makes the chipmaker Korea's dominant internet company's third-largest shareholder, tied to an AI campus that starts at 55 megawatts and is meant to reach a gigawatt.
Jul 27, 2026
SK's chairman disclosed the request on stage next to Dario Amodei — the clearest sign yet that Anthropic intends to follow Google, Amazon and Meta into custom silicon.
Jul 25, 2026
Samsung, SK, Nvidia, Broadcom and Anthropic met South Korea's president in San Francisco and left with the largest single-day semiconductor supply package on record — none of it yet a signed contract.
Jul 25, 2026
A 30-person startup spun off from AMD-backed Moreh trained Motif-3-Beta on about 700 government GPUs — and became the highest-ranked model builder outside the US and China.
Jul 21, 2026
