Global AI companies are accelerating efforts to target South Korea’s sovereign AI market, focused on AI infrastructure controllable by governments and enterprises. Palantir held a second pop-up event in Korea, while Mistral began hiring in Seoul and Cohere outlined plans to set up local entities and double Asia-Pacific staff by year-end. The article also rounds up moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Salesforce and others, including models, acquisitions, investments and cloud and AI agent infrastructure tools.

Douzone Bizon said on Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding with law firm Sejong to cooperate in AI governance and compliance. The partners plan to jointly respond to demand for legal advice on AI governance, compliance, building security systems and managing legal risks as companies pursue AI transformation. Sejong will provide advice on AI-related laws and regulations, compliance and security frameworks, and risk assessment and control systems. Douzone Bizon will build governance and security systems and dashboards and support technical implementation linked to ERP and other business systems.