Funding: Own budget (11), Public broadcaster / state media (11), Tech company (Google/GNI) (2), Tech company (OpenAI) (1)
AI LINK (Linking Insight, News & Korea: Let News Flow) — integrated AI journalism ecosystem designed to break the 'text prison' by converting articles into formats that reach diverse audiences; four-engine architecture: (1) AI PRISM — personalized newsletter generator delivering identical news through different interpretive lenses for eight reader types (investors, job seekers, etc.); (2) AI WAVE — converts text…
AI-generated predictive footage of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un standing on Tiananmen Gate aired in KBS 9pm news bulletin on September 1 2025 — two days before China's actual WWII 80th anniversary military parade on September 3; footage included on-screen 'AI-generated footage' label
Participant in Google AI article overviews pilot on Google News (announced Dec. 11, 2025) — South Korea's primary national wire service joins Google's AI article overviews pilot; builds on existing commercial relationships through the Google News Showcase scheme; deal delivers AI-powered article overviews on Google News pages, audio briefings, and real-time information in the Gemini app; articles carry clear…
BigKinds AI news search service rebuilt as RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system: users submit natural language questions; query engine discerns search intent, search engine retrieves and ranks responses from 82 million articles in real-time; replaces keyword-based search with contextual AI responses
Upstage Solar Pro automated English translation pipeline — decomposes Korean articles into 6 JSON fields (body, headline, SEO, captions, quotes, metadata); applies glossary normalisation for consistent romanisation; context-aware full-article translation; launched February 2025; ~30× increase in translation volume without additional staff
'AskBiz' chatbot for Dong-A Business Review (DBR) magazine: readers ask questions about DBR articles and receive AI-generated answers; built on Dong-A's own small language model (sLLM) rather than ChatGPT API — differentiating factor cited as proprietary training on DBR's own content corpus