Hancom has signed MOUs with major AI and R&D companies in Europe and will step up its push into the European agentic OS market.

Hancom said on Sunday it signed an MOU with Poland’s nationally accredited R&D centre 7bulls.com and will begin joint research and development to localise a next-generation sovereign agentic OS for Europe.

The partnership centres on localisation R&D to tailor Hancom’s agentic OS to European conditions. With regulations and work practices differing by country and industry in Europe, the two sides will jointly analyse customers’ requirements and the existing IT systems used by local companies and reflect them in Hancom’s products. They will conduct joint research so a beta version of the agentic OS, due in the second half of the year, can operate properly in the European environment.

Hancom will also work to validate the technology in the field and secure customers. To that end, it signed an MOU on May 19 with Polish AI developer Algomine. Hancom and Algomine will conduct proof-of-concept work for adopting the agentic OS for on-premises public-sector customers in Poland.

As part of its European market push, Hancom recently hired director Victor Venegas Mendoza (빅터 베네가스 멘도사) to lead European business development. Victor has enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity solutions sales experience across key European markets including Germany, Austria and Switzerland, known as the DACH region.

Hancom CEO Yeon-su Kim (김연수) said, "Europe is a stage where data sovereignty and regulatory compliance become qualifications for entering the market, and there is a gap that even global big tech companies cannot easily fill." He added, "Hancom will pre-empt that gap with its unstructured data extraction and structuring technologies accumulated over 36 years and the competitiveness of its sovereign agentic OS."