President Lee Jae Myung flagged the $20.5 billion investment in his budget speech.
The 2027 budget will rise 12.8% to 820.9 trillion won, and will include a 21.3 trillion won investment into semiconductors, physical AI and AI data centers.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made an unannounced visit to South Korea over the weekend, meeting with Samsung executives and reportedly SK Group executives.
Exports from Asia's fourth-largest economy, a bellwether for global trade, rose 93.7% from the same month last year to $115.28 billion
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