{"id":987491,"date":"2026-01-24T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987491"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:08:18","slug":"south-korea-launches-landmark-laws-to-regulate-ai-startups-warn-of-compliance-burdens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/south-korea-launches-landmark-laws-to-regulate-ai-startups-warn-of-compliance-burdens\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea launches landmark laws to regulate AI, startups warn of compliance burdens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea introduced on Thursday what it says is the world&#8217;s first \u200dcomprehensive set of laws regulating artificial intelligence, \u200baiming to strengthen trust and safety in the sector, but startups fretted \u2060that compliance could hold them back. <\/p>\n<p>Seoul is hoping that the new AI Basic Act will position the country as a leader in the field. It has taken effect in South Korea sooner than a comparable effort in Europe, where \u200cthe EU AI \u200cAct is being applied in phases through 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea introduced on Thursday what it says is the world&#8217;s first \u200dcomprehensive set of laws regulating artificial intelligence, \u200baiming to strengthen trust and safety in the sector, but startups fretted \u2060that compliance could hold them back. Seoul is hoping that the new AI Basic Act will position the country as a leader in the field. It has taken effect in South Korea sooner than a comparable effort in Europe, where \u200cthe EU AI \u200cAct is being applied in phases through 2027.<\/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-987491","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\/987491","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=987491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}