Samsung marked the first overseas exhibition of donated works from the late Lee Kun-hee with a gala dinner in Washington on Jan. 28 local time. About 250 guests attended, including U.S. officials, politicians, business leaders and cultural figures. Samsung family members welcomed attendees and highlighted the founders’ resolve to preserve Korean cultural heritage. Organisers estimate the exhibition will draw more than 65,000 visitors by closing.

BPO company Ubase Group said on Jan. 29 it signed an industry-academic cooperation agreement with Seoul National University's Natural Language Processing Lab and will pursue joint research to advance AI counselling. Ubase said it decided on the collaboration after judging that a linguistic approach to Korean is needed for natural AI counselling. Its AI Application Research Institute, created in December, will take part. The partners plan to secure technology to accurately recognise and process spoken dialogue and to build evaluation metrics reflecting Korean language characteristics such as omission and honorifics.