Five teams that joined the government’s independent AI foundation model project will release large-scale training data gathered during model development to South Korea’s AI ecosystem. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency said 29 datasets totaling about 35.44 million items, or about 1.56 trillion tokens, will be opened on AI Hub. Data spans text, multimodal, post-training and red-teaming sets, with some accessible via a secure environment.

South Korea\'s Financial Services Commission\'s mid-rate livelihood stability loan, introduced to support living expenses for mid- and low-credit borrowers, is spreading mainly among non-bank lenders. The product was first launched by six savings banks and has since been rolled out by additional savings banks and capital firms. Major commercial banks have not launched it separately and say plans remain undecided, though they have introduced their own mid-rate and inclusive finance products. Regulators are expanding household-loan volume management incentives for mid-rate lending, which could boost supply.