{"id":1007807,"date":"2026-05-13T10:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007807"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:22:23","slug":"south-korea-official-floats-ai-profit-social-tax-as-tech-giants-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/13\/south-korea-official-floats-ai-profit-social-tax-as-tech-giants-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea official floats AI profit social tax as tech giants boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top South Korean official has proposed a tax on AI profits to be redistributed among society as a semiconductor boom drives massive earnings for tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix.<\/p>\n<p>The two South Korean firms have emerged as key suppliers of high-performance chips powering AI infrastructure globally, posting record first-quarter earnings as global demand surges.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s benchmark Kospi has rallied over the past month, repeatedly hitting record highs and also briefly coming within a whisker of the key 8,000-point mark Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top South Korean official has proposed a tax on AI profits to be redistributed among society as a semiconductor boom drives massive earnings for tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. The two South Korean firms have emerged as key suppliers of high-performance chips powering AI infrastructure globally, posting record first-quarter earnings as global demand surges. South Korea&#8217;s benchmark Kospi has rallied over the past month, repeatedly hitting record highs and also briefly coming within a whisker of the key 8,000-point mark Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007875,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007807\/revisions\/1007875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}