South Korea\'s financial sector is turning its attention to regulators and parliament after the June 3 local elections, with a range of delayed policy issues expected to return to the agenda in the second half. These include governance reforms at financial holding firms, possible restrictions on jeonse loans for non-resident single-home owners, a no-fault compensation scheme for voice phishing victims, the Digital Assets Basic Act and revisions to the Microfinance Act.

An October announcement that Nvidia would supply 260,000 GPUs to South Korea was seen as a diplomatic gain, but most supply is concentrated among large companies. About 20 percent is available for academia, research institutes and startups, with the government leasing capacity from cloud firms. The author argues AI demand is shifting toward low-latency inference, where domestic NPUs could be deployed, but cheap large-scale GPU supply could crowd them out. He calls for regional distributed inference hubs using idle public assets and local demand aggregation.