The Ministry of Science and ICT has recommended nine research institutes at four large companies as designated employers for the specialized research personnel program, reopening a route into corporate labs that closed in 2013.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives58
- Confidence42
A quarter of 602 hacked companies told IBM their attacker used AI, and those breaches cost about a million dollars more each. Anthropic's own misuse report shows the throughput behind that number.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence62
Korea's Dokpamo program gives the benchmarking firm's index 25 of the 100 points that decide which teams advance. In the results published on August 27, the team that led that component finished last of the four.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence38
The Ministry of Science and ICT briefed results from six months of Samsung consulting at POSTECH's Nano Convergence Technology Center, with four more public fabs named to follow in sequence at the same pace.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Rebellions, FuriosaAI and Mobilint want Seoul to orchestrate domestic deployments they can quote to foreign buyers, which is a procurement request wearing industrial-policy clothes, arriving just as Korea made exporting the chips harder.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption27
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives68
- Confidence34
The Ministry of Science and ICT has picked three consortium leads and set September betas, which hands the market a delivery calendar long before it hands anyone a number worth modelling.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives68
- Confidence46
Korea's 2028 college entrance exam narrows its math scope while the government chases top-three AI status. The missing calculus becomes a first-year university problem.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives66
- Confidence40
Upstage, SK Telecom and LG AI Research passed the second-stage evaluation on usability rather than benchmarks. A third stage cuts the field to two as early as year-end.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives58
- Confidence38
Seoul wants top-three status by 2035 on more than 1,000 trillion won. The inaugural director of its National AI Research Hub says the money is budgeted on the wrong clock.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives66
- Confidence38