Viewed from afar, South Korea looks like a clear winner from the rise of AI. Some of its biggest companies are booming because of the global appetite for chips and data centres.Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, its leading chipmakers, have both topped $US1 trillion ($1.4 trillion) in market capitalisation. And because these companies have powerful unions, their workers are securing a share of the surge in profits.Financial TimesSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Lessons from S Korea: How to stop AI being the enemy of young workers
Seoul has money to spare thanks to tax revenues from the semiconductor boom. How it uses this to tackle rising AI-related youth unemployment could provide a blueprint.
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