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Anthropic Opens Seoul Office and Announces New Partnerships Across Korea's AI Ecosystem

·2026.06.18 00:23

Key point

Anthropic has officially opened a Seoul office and is ramping up its push into the Korean market by signing partnerships with major domestic companies and research institutions, including NAVER and Samsung SDS.

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Anthropic officially opened its Seoul office and announced partnerships with Korean companies, startups, and researchers driving innovation with Claude. Korea shows active engagement in tech and creative fields, ranking among the top 12 countries worldwide in Claude.ai usage.

Key adoption cases from major companies are as follows:

  • NAVER: Deployed Claude Code across its entire engineering organization to maximize coding productivity
  • Nexon: Uses Claude Code for code writing and review in globally live-serviced games
  • LG CNS & LG Group: Adopted Claude for software development and delivering customer technology solutions
  • Hanwha Solutions: Adopted Claude via AWS Bedrock while complying with data residency and security requirements
  • Samsung SDS: Deployed Claude Cowork and Claude Code company-wide at Samsung Electronics to advance knowledge work and agentic workflows
  • Channel Corporation: Integrated Claude into its customer AI platform 'Channel Talk' to provide business insights

Collaboration is also taking place in research and public interest areas. Anthropic is providing researchers at the National AI Research Lab (NAIRL) with access to Claude to support AI safety and model evaluation research, and the NGO Good Neighbors Korea is adopting Claude to streamline administrative work.

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