South Korean lawmakers said at a parliamentary audit that increasingly sophisticated AI-enabled hacking is hard to counter under existing personal data protection systems. They questioned whether authorities separately track AI hacking, have automated attack detection and joint drills, and reflect AI defences in public-system certification due to be phased in from July next year. Officials also faced concerns over security flaws in AI-assisted development and the use of uncertified external tools to collect sensitive data.

JobKorea said job postings that explicitly cite specific AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini rose 170 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier. It said postings naming tools increased faster than postings that only mentioned AI. Claude-related postings rose 770 percent, the biggest jump. JobKorea also said postings increasingly specified how to use AI, while mentions of some traditional skills such as Word, computer proficiency and Photoshop declined.