AI & Enterprise

NIA discusses AI legal and institutional tasks in healthcare, education and labour

The National Information Society Agency (NIA) held an open seminar on Wednesday to discuss legal and institutional responses to AI in healthcare, education and labour. The event in Seoul was part of the Intelligent Information Society Legal and Institutional Forum run with legal, industry, academic and research experts. Participants reviewed AI’s impact on people’s lives, rights and opportunities by sector and discussed reforms, including protections for human dignity and fundamental rights.

Industry

Why Korea\'s homegrown AI chips are not reaching market as software tool gaps hit on-device NPUs

Korea-made on-device AI semiconductors have reached global-level hardware performance but are failing to clear the commercialisation hurdle because of software barriers. Domestic NPU chips often drop out at the proof-of-concept stage because software development kits, compilers and related tools are not mature enough for customers to run them. Set makers say a lack of frameworks, profiling and debugging tools raises development costs, pushing them back toward Nvidia’s CUDA-based chips.