South Korea PaaS Market Size and Forecast by Offering, Deployment Model, Organization Size, Subscription Model, and End User Industry: 2019-2033

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Industry Assessment Overview

Industry Findings: Domestic capability-building is steering large Korean enterprises toward locally anchored platform stacks that reduce foreign-supply risk while improving latency and regulatory alignment. The combination of telco-cloud investments and local hyperscaler platform features is incentivising firms to prefer PaaS offerings that include packaged devops, native AI accelerators, and pre-built connectors to national identity and payment rails — a procurement tilt that boosts demand for locally managed runtime and data services.

Industry Progression: A significant verified development was Naver Cloud’s launch of Korean-focused AI models (HyperClova X Seed), publicly announced in Apr-2025; that product release signalled a concrete step toward domestic AI/ML platform maturity and encouraged enterprises to adopt locally hosted PaaS bundles that include GPU-accelerated inference and Korean-language model support, reducing the need to export sensitive data to foreign regions.

Industry Player Insights: South Korea’s market transformation is influenced by Naver Cloud, Samsung SDS, KT Corporation, and SK Telecom etc. Naver Cloud’s Apr-2025 AI model launch and Samsung SDS’s continuing cloud investments illustrate how local vendors are expanding platform functionality and attracting enterprise PaaS adoption; telco players such as KT and SK Telecom complement these moves with connectivity and edge services that make locally-hosted PaaS more compelling for latency-sensitive and regulated workloads.