Anthropic introduced the opening of its Seoul workplace together with new partnerships throughout the Korean AI ecosystem. The corporate stated the workplace will assist its long-term work with Korean enterprises, startups, researchers, builders, and nonprofit organizations constructing with Claude.
Senior leaders from Anthropic traveled to Seoul this week to open the workplace and meet with companions, clients, and builders. The Seoul workplace is led by KiYoung Choi, Consultant Director of Korea at Anthropic, who brings three many years of expertise main expertise companies throughout Korea.
Anthropic stated Korean organizations have been working with Claude throughout a spread of use circumstances, together with software program growth, enterprise productiveness, customer support, analysis, and social affect.
NAVER has deployed Claude Code throughout its engineering group, with hundreds of engineers utilizing it to diversify coding instruments and enhance productiveness. Nexon engineering groups are additionally utilizing Claude Code to write down, evaluate, and ship code for live-service video games performed by thousands and thousands of customers globally.
A number of of Korea’s largest enterprise teams are additionally deploying Claude. LG CNS, the IT companies arm of LG Group, is rolling out Claude to hundreds of staff for software program growth and consumer expertise options, with plans to deploy Claude throughout LG Group. Hanwha Options is bringing Claude to international staff via AWS Bedrock to fulfill in-region information residency and safety necessities. Samsung SDS is deploying Claude to staff throughout Samsung Electronics, with groups utilizing Claude, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code for data work, agentic workflows, and software program growth.
Korean startups are additionally integrating Claude straight into their merchandise. Channel Corp makes use of Claude to energy Channel Speak, its buyer AI platform, which resolves buyer inquiries and analyzes service and gross sales information to ship enterprise insights. Channel Speak is utilized by greater than 230,000 corporations throughout Korea, Japan, and the USA.
Anthropic can also be increasing its work with Korea’s educational and nonprofit communities. The corporate will work with the Nationwide AI Analysis Lab, a consortium spanning KAIST, Korea College, Yonsei College, and POSTECH. Anthropic will present Claude entry to as much as 60 NAIRL-affiliated researchers to assist work on AI security, mannequin analysis, alignment, robustness, and broader frontier AI analysis.
Within the nonprofit sector, Good Neighbors Korea is deploying Claude to assist workers analyze program outcomes, navigate social welfare regulation and inner pointers, and scale back administrative work so groups can spend extra time within the area.
Anthropic stated Korea is among the many high dozen international locations globally for Claude.ai use, with utilization concentrated in technical and inventive work. The corporate stated Claude for Startups is now stay in Korea, and Claude Meetups have drawn tons of of Korean builders since September 2025.
This week, Anthropic additionally co-hosted Claude Construct Day with BASS Ventures, bringing collectively greater than 100 Korean founders and builders for hands-on constructing with Anthropic engineering, product, and startup leaders. The corporate will even co-host a Push to Prod hackathon with Replit, Korea Funding Companions, and Korea Funding Accelerator.
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“What I see in Korea are groups who perceive that innovation and security are two sides of the identical coin. Korean organizations are constructing with Claude to deliver the advantages of AI to thousands and thousands all over the world. Opening an workplace in Seoul offers a long-term dwelling to our work alongside the folks shaping Korean management in AI.”
KiYoung Choi, Consultant Director of Korea at Anthropic
“Good Neighbors Korea is exploring how accountable AI transformation can assist frontline social staff, shield susceptible populations, and strengthen service supply. As we deploy Claude throughout our group, we count on the effectivity positive factors to free our workers from administrative workload to allow them to focus extra on what issues most: serving susceptible kids and communities.”
Jeongsun Park, Chief Administrative Officer of Good Neighbors Korea