{"id":1017639,"date":"2026-06-30T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017639"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:43:03","slug":"one-time-opportunity-south-korea-bets-big-on-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/one-time-opportunity-south-korea-bets-big-on-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;One-time opportunity&#8217;: South Korea bets big on AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge demand for the components that power artificial intelligence presents South Korea with an opportunity to bolster its chip industry against rivals such as China, analysts say. <\/p>\n<p>Seoul announced Monday massive investments, including for new semiconductor factories and AI data centres, led by South Korean chipmakers. <\/p>\n<p>AFP looks at what has driven South Korea&#8217;s AI boom, and where it could be heading:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge demand for the components that power artificial intelligence presents South Korea with an opportunity to bolster its chip industry against rivals such as China, analysts say. Seoul announced Monday massive investments, including for new semiconductor factories and AI data centres, led by South Korean chipmakers. AFP looks at what has driven South Korea&#8217;s AI boom, and where it could be heading:<\/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-1017639","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\/1017639","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=1017639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017659,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017639\/revisions\/1017659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}