en.Wedoany.com Reported - Anthropic has established a Seoul office in South Korea, officially entering the Korean market, and plans to collaborate with large enterprises, startups, and AI research institutions to expand its participation in the Korean AI ecosystem. Korea Representative Choi Ki-young stated at a press conference held at the Conrad Seoul Hotel on Yeouido on the 17th that opening the Seoul office lays the foundation for building long-term partnerships with key figures leading artificial intelligence in South Korea.
The press conference, attended by Choi Ki-young and Head of International Chris Chaury along with other management, introduced partnerships with major Korean enterprises, startups, and the Claude developer community in research and public interest fields. Chris Chaury noted that South Korea is formulating a comprehensive AI bill and aims to become one of the top three AI powers by 2030, and that its AI Basic Act and industrial ecosystem align with Anthropic's philosophy. Going forward, the Seoul office will serve as a hub to build sales, technology, policy, and operations organizations, supporting Korean enterprises in their AI transformation.
According to Anthropic, Claude is rapidly gaining adoption across various industries in South Korea, particularly within the developer ecosystem. Naver has fully deployed the AI coding agent Claude Code across its engineering organization, covering thousands of developers, diversifying programming tools and enhancing productivity—a case cited as one of the largest enterprise-level adoptions in Asia. Nexon uses Claude Code for code writing, review, and deployment within its engineering organization, supporting its global online service games.
Large enterprises are also advancing Claude applications. LG CNS, under the LG Group, is providing Claude to thousands of employees for software development and customer technical solutions, with plans to expand across the entire group. Samsung SDS has introduced Claude for Samsung Electronics employees, using AI-powered work automation tools Claude CoWork and Claude Code to enhance daily office tasks, agent workflows, and software development efficiency. Hanwha Solutions provides Claude to its global employees via Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock.
Among startups, Channel Corporation has integrated Claude into its customer consultation AI platform Channel Talk for customer response, service, and sales data analysis to provide business insights. The platform currently serves over 230,000 enterprise users in countries including South Korea, Japan, and the United States. In academia, Anthropic plans to collaborate with the National AI Research Laboratory (NAIRL) of South Korea, which involves KAIST, Korea University, Yonsei University, and Pohang University of Science and Technology. Anthropic will provide free Claude accounts to up to 60 affiliated researchers to support core research in AI safety, model evaluation, alignment, and robustness. In the non-profit sector, Anthropic will partner with the global children's rights NGO Good Neighbors, which plans to introduce Claude for project outcome analysis, social welfare regulation review, and administrative process optimization.
Choi Ki-young also introduced Anthropic's programs for the developer ecosystem, including "Claude for Startups" and the developer community event "Claude Meetup." He mentioned that on the 16th, Anthropic co-hosted "Claude Build Day" with Base Ventures, engaging over 100 startup founders and developers alongside Anthropic leaders in hands-on project development. On the 18th, Anthropic plans to co-host the "Push to Prod Hackathon" with AI-based software development platform Replit, Korea Investment Partners, and Korea Investment Accelerator.
During the press conference, a reporter asked about the recent U.S. government export control measures that completely prohibit foreign access to Anthropic's highest-level high-performance AI models "Mythos5" and "Fable5." Both Choi Ki-young and Chris Chaury declined to answer, citing limited information available at this time.
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