OpenAI held its first corporate leadership event in South Korea on May 27, hosting an "Exec Summit" and discussing ways to apply enterprise artificial intelligence with about 130 business and technology executives from major local companies, it said on May 29.

Held under the theme "Intelligence at work," the event was attended by Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon (제이슨 권), Enterprise Vice President Ashley Kramer (애슐리 크레이머) and OpenAI Korea head Kyung-hoon Kim (김경훈), among others. It introduced how AI is being applied to software development, work automation and business problem-solving, focusing on Codex, workspace agents and forward-deployed engineering (FDE).

According to OpenAI, weekly active users of ChatGPT Codex in South Korea have increased tenfold from early this year. More than half of Codex requests in the country come from non-development work such as document writing, analysis, research and operations.

As a local corporate case, Krafton's companywide AI transformation experience was shared. Krafton said it has pushed to embed companywide AI literacy and innovate work processes after declaring an AI-first stance last year, and that a companywide survey in February showed usage of generative AI tools had reached 97.2 percent.

Krafton Transformation Vice President Kyung-young Lim (임경영) said an organisational culture that is not afraid of trial and error is important for leaders considering AI adoption. He said it is necessary to encourage various experiments and quickly apply tools suited to the organisation.

Kim said the company plans to continue support across technology, products and partnerships so AI can be safely integrated into real work and organisational operations and lead to repeatable results in industrial settings.