Anthropic appointed KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea before opening its Seoul office. The company says Korea is one of Claude.ai’s most active markets, with usage over 3.5 times what population size would predict and concentrated in technical and creative work. Choi, formerly Snowflake Korea GM, will lead local go-to-market efforts across enterprises, startups, government, research institutions, and developers.
Nvidia announced partnerships with SK Hynix, NAVER and Doosan Group to bring its technology into AI data center projects in Korea. The collaboration also covers next-generation memory development, tying Nvidia more closely to Korea’s semiconductor and digital infrastructure ecosystem. The article does not specify investment size, deployment timeline or data center scale.