Anthropic opens Seoul office to expand ties with Korean AI ecosystem

Anthropic Korea Consultant Director Choi Ki-young speaks throughout a press convention marking the opening of the corporate’s Seoul workplace on the Conrad Seoul, Wednesday. Courtesy of Anthropic

U.S. synthetic intelligence (AI) agency Anthropic opened its Seoul workplace on Wednesday, because the operator of Claude seeks to increase its ties with Korea’s AI ecosystem.

“Korean corporations and establishments acknowledge innovation and security as targets that should go hand in hand, not a contradicting worth,” Anthropic Korea Consultant Director Choi Ki-young mentioned throughout a press convention.

“Numerous organizations within the nation are utilizing Claude to create optimistic adjustments within the lives of thousands and thousands of individuals all over the world, and the opening of the Seoul workplace displays our dedication to construct a long-term basis for collaboration with these main Korea’s AI ecosystem.”

Choi, who joined Anthropic two weeks in the past, is a seasoned knowledgeable in Korea’s digital infrastructure trade, having served in management roles at Google Cloud, Microsoft Korea, Adobe and Snowflake.

Anthropic Worldwide Managing Director Chris Ciauri mentioned Anthropic believes its final accountability is AI security, aligning the corporate with the Korean authorities and its AI Framework Act, a legislation designed to deal with dangers stemming from AI companies.

“So we see a shared philosophy there, and it’s a part of the rationale that we’re so excited to launch a enterprise in Korea,” Ciauri mentioned. “We’re privileged that as we enter Korea, we’ve already obtained super momentum within the enterprise, developer and startup sectors.”

Anthropic Korea Consultant Director Choi Ki-young, left, solutions questions throughout a press convention marking the opening of the corporate’s Seoul workplace on the Conrad Seoul, Wednesday. At proper is Chris Ciauri, worldwide managing director of Anthropic. Courtesy of Anthropic

Anthropic’s Seoul workplace comes as Claude is more and more current in Korea’s enterprise AI ecosystem. Constructing on its multi-year cooperation with AI service agency WRTN Applied sciences and authorized tech startup Legislation&Firm, Claude has expanded its purposes at main conglomerates in latest months.

Korea’s largest net portal Naver lately launched Claude Code for its complete engineering unit, marking the most important case of enterprise use in Asia. Sport developer Nexon additionally launched Claude Code for designing code for its dwell service video games.

Anthropic mentioned LG CNS is offering Claude for its staff to develop software program and plans to increase protection to all of LG Group. Samsung SDS can also be introducing Claude Cowork and Claude Code for Samsung Electronics staff.

Anthropic Worldwide Managing Director Chris Ciauri speaks throughout a press convention marking the opening of the corporate’s Seoul workplace at Conrad Seoul, Wednesday. Courtesy of Anthropic

To assist the expansion of Korea’s AI ecosystem, Choi mentioned it’s going to cooperate with Nationwide AI Analysis Lab, a analysis consortium together with Korea Superior Institute of Science & Know-how, Korea College, Yonsei College, Pohang College of Science and Know-how and different prestigious native establishments.

The corporate has a number of occasions for home builders, together with Claude Construct Day, which hosted greater than 100 officers and builders from home startups on Tuesday.

On the sidelines of the press convention, Anthropic introduced collectively officers from main home corporations in a closed-door assembly and to share its enterprise plans in Korea.

Ciauri mentioned firm income has grown from $9 billion on the finish of 2025 to $47 billion as of some weeks in the past, and expects an analogous trajectory of development in Korea.

Throughout the press convention, questions had been raised about U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s superior cybersecurity fashions, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, and the next ban on Korean institutional entry to the fashions. Nevertheless, firm officers refused to touch upon the difficulty. The controversy later escalated after the Washington Publish reported that the export restrictions had been linked to issues over a Korean telecom operator’s alleged ties to China.