KT held its 11th KT Partners Day 2026 on April 14 to communicate with suppliers. The event is designed for KT and partner companies to share business direction and review the basis for cooperation. KT set its 2026 cooperation direction as essence, growth and mutual growth, and said it would shift from price-based competition to a system centered on quality and technology. It will expand incentives and strengthen security standards across equipment processes.

Han Sun-ho, chief AI officer at Bespin Global, said many companies fail to feel the impact of AI investment because they take a technology-first approach, overlook data complexity and build systems from a vendor perspective. He said AI is a management issue and requires internal capability-building alongside partners who understand the technology. Han cited text-to-SQL accuracy limits and vector database constraints, and urged firms to define problems first and start small based on business impact.