South Korea AI Marchine Learning Market Size and Forecast by Offering, Hardware, Solution, Service, Application, Deployment Model, Organization Size, and End User Industry: 2019-2033

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Industry Assessment Overview

Industry Findings: A national push to link semiconductor capability with applied AI is reframing procurement toward suppliers that can guarantee end-to-end stack performance and supply continuity. Recent government and industry coordination has emphasised domestic chip and memory leadership (policy momentum through 2024–2025), which pressures vendors to demonstrate validated, locally-provisioned hardware+software references for latency-sensitive use cases in automotive and manufacturing; buyers increasingly value suppliers that can show in-country supply, integration support and resilient roadmaps.

Industry Progression: Global vendor partnership programmes are converting into in-country infrastructure projects: NVIDIA announced a Korea AI Technology Center and related ecosystem investments in Oct-2025, partnering with local industry and government to build AI infrastructure and talent pipelines. That initiative creates clear, localised training and validation capacity for enterprises and OEMs working on automotive AI and robotics, shortening vendor qualification cycles and enabling faster production deployments.

Industry Player Insights: Domestic industrial and chip incumbents are stepping up with concrete in-market developments: Samsung and other Korean groups announced expanded domestic AI and chip investments in Nov-2025, and Hyundai is co-investing in physical AI application centres — developments that deepen local supply of memory, packaging and systems integration. These in-country moves reduce hardware lead times for Korean buyers and create stronger routes to production for vendors that can integrate silicon, systems and software locally.