South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Industrial Technology Association selected 6 people as June 2026 winners of the Korea Engineer Award. The recipients span large companies, small and midsized firms, women and a young engineer category. The award recognises engineers who contributed significantly to technology sites and grants a deputy prime minister’s award and 5 million won in prize money. The ministry plans to expand award categories from the second half of this year.

As investment in AI infrastructure accelerates, companies specialising in on-premises hardware are posting strong growth alongside cloud expansion. Hardware makers spanning semiconductors, servers, storage and networking are reporting improved results as AI demand rises. Dell Technologies highlights a strategy centred on upgraded on-premises AI infrastructure and solutions optimised for the tokenomics era. Enterprises are also looking at PCs for local inference while major AI and software players expand offerings, partnerships, acquisitions and investments.