Course: AI and Tech in Korea: A Cultural and Technological Perspective

The spread of AI, notably facial recognition, significantly increases public risks by extending surveillance into daily spaces like schools, subways, and airports. This technology is highly contested because its efficiency …

The global deployment of AI surveillance is met with powerful citizen resistance, ranging from Korean school camera protests to international campaigns, highlighting a fundamental struggle over privacy and personal freedom. …

This chapter explores why global AI models like GPT and BERT struggle with the Korean language. You will learn how Korean grammar, spacing, and honorifics require specialized training data, and …

Smart cities like Seoul and Songdo utilize AI and IoT sensors as “living labs” to significantly enhance urban efficiency and public safety, achieving measurable benefits in traffic, fire response, and …

The material provides a final summary of AI’s societal impact, detailing its benefits across health, education, and business. It emphasizes that maximizing these gains requires confronting issues of privacy and …

AI’s expansion across sectors like health, finance and politics presents substantial benefits but carries inherent risks of algorithmic bias and data leaks. The core ethical issue arises from the technology’s …

Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally reshaping commerce and culture, transitioning traditional markets into a hyper-personalized digital economy, strongly influenced by Korea’s fast internet and collective culture (leading to the global e-sports …

This chapter examines the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and the Korean language. The lecture analyzes the linguistic features that make Korean challenging for global AI models, focusing on its …

The evolution of Korea’s civic management, tracing back to the Joseon Dynasty’s record-keeping culture, has culminated in comprehensive digital modernization. Today, real-time AI systems accelerate traditionally slow services; they utilize …

The entertainment sector has transcended traditional limits, utilizing AI to facilitate co-creation and meet the global demand for immediate, personalized content. Key to this shift is K-pop, where major labels …

The shift in education, particularly in Korea, moves from traditional, standardized teaching—which was rigid and failed to address individual differences—to AI-driven smart learning. This technological transformation overcomes the limits of …

This chapter, we explore why Korean is easy for humans but hard for machines. You will learn how NLP helps computers understand language and why Korean needs its own specialized …

The core of healthcare is rapidly transforming from traditional, experience-based methods to AI-driven smart healthcare. This shift is essential due to the massive volume of modern medical data, which AI …

This week’s content explores the real-world applications and impact of AI across three major sectors: health, education, and business. AI is now a significant part of everyday life in Korea, …

This week examines the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and the Korean language. The lecture analyzes the linguistic features that make Korean challenging for global AI models, focusing on its …