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  OPINION: Technical roadmap for Korean AI models South Korea's global ambition in the AI transformation — a goal of both national significance and export potential — hinges on mastering challenges that continue to plague tech giants in the U.S. and China. The key to success won't be model size alone, but a technical focus on building trust, combating deception, and ensuring truthful, ethically aligned AI behavior. The most immediate technical hurdle is the phenomenon of hallucination — the AI's September 29, 2025
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  South Korea Bets $100 Billion on AI: A Risky Gamble? SEOUL, September 26 (AJP) - South Korea's $100 Billion AI Bet: A Risky Gamble? The New York Times recently likened data centers to thermometers of the tech industry's health and symbols of the AI bubble. This duality highlights the contradictions of the AI era. Building a data center costs billions, requiring GPUs, cooling technology, power grids, and stable sites. Despite this, companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are increasing investments. Countries like Jap September 26, 2025
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  OPINION: Bogota's first metro train is wake-up call for South Korea In September 2025, Bogota welcomed its first-ever metro train, a sight that many Colombians thought they might never live to see. After seven decades of delays, false starts, and political infighting, the arrival of a sleek Chinese-built train was celebrated across the Colombian capital as a long-awaited triumph. But for South Korea, watching from afar, it should serve as something else: a moment of reckoning. As someone who worked closely on infrastructure cooperation betwee September 25, 2025
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  Georgia immigration raid prompts calls for special visa program for South Korean workers SEOUL, September 18 (AJP) - Despite Seoul's massive $350 billion investment pledge to Washington, a sweeping U.S. immigration raid early this month led to the detention of hundreds of South Koreans working at a joint electric vehicle battery plant under construction in Georgia. The incident severely disrupted South Korean companies' plans to send skilled workers to the U.S. for productivity and quality control. The raid underscores the need for clear and consistent v September 18, 2025
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  OPINION: China keeps 'doing right thing' SEOUL, September 18 (AJP) - Recent surveys by multiple international polling agencies show that global public opinion toward China continues to improve, with the country's image gaining wider recognition around the world. This growing recognition reflects China's commitment to "doing the right thing" September 18, 2025
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  OPINION: China's high-quality development brings vast opportunities to world SEOUL, September 17 (AJP) - The "Su Super League," grassroots tournament Jiangsu Football City League, and the Village Super League, also known as Cun Chao, have gone viral, injecting fresh vitality into the integrated development of culture, commerce, tourism, and sports. Labubu toys, elf-like dolls produc September 17, 2025
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  Opinion: Hainan FTP gains momentum, underscoring China's commitment to opening up SEOUL, September 16 (AJP) - China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) will officially launch an island-wide independent customs operation on December 18, 2025. This milestone in the development of the Hainan FTP sends a clear and unequivocal message to the world: China remains steadfast in its commitment to expanding hig September 16, 2025
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  OPINION: Kazakhstan's constitution at 30: What has been achieved? SEOUL, September 01 (AJP) - When people voted in the 1995 national referendum (August 30) to adopt a new Constitution, they laid the cornerstone of modern statehood. More than just a legal charter, the Constitution of Kazakhstan is marked by its humanist focus. Article 1 declares the country a democratic, secular, legal, and social state, in which the hi September 1, 2025
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  OPINION: Letter to President Trump - In anticipation of "Great Peace-Maker" (GPM) SEOUL, August 24 (AJP) - Dear President Trump, I hope you will allow me to use the American-style "you" in this letter. There is a saying that comes to mind when I think of your effort to build a new world out of chaos. Willy Brandt, the German chancellor who pioneered East-West d August 24, 2025
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  OPINION: How Korean semiconductor firms can navigate uncertainty amid U.S. tariff bombshells (This opinion article was contributed by Per Stenius, the founder and CEO of Finnish management consulting firm Reddal.) SEOUL, August 9 (AJP) - With the recent tariff deal with the United States reducing the duty burden on South Korean exports to 15% from the initially envisioned 25%, President Lee Jae Myung celebrated the agreement as overcoming “a significant hurdle.” Various voices from the Bank of Korea to local analysts also praised the deal for reducing uncertaint August 9, 2025