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AI in South Korea
AI investment in South Korea has gone quiet — $1.7B raised all-time, but nothing new in the past year while US AI startups raised $208.8B in the same period.
funding · all-time
$1.7B
orgs
13
datacenters
2
operational
310 MW
Quiet year
$0 raised in the past 12 months
AI investment in South Korea has gone quiet — $1.7B raised all-time, but nothing new in the past year while US AI startups raised $208.8B in the same period.
50%
Rebellions alone
One company — Rebellions — is 50% of all AI funding in South Korea.
310 MW
powers 251k US homes
AI datacenters in South Korea already pull 310 MW from the grid — enough to power 251k American homes.
head-to-head
top 5 orgs of 13 total
see all 13 orgs
Rebellions
Seongnam
$850M
Jan 2024
FuriosaAI
Seoul
$268M
Jan 2024
Upstage
Seoul
$260M
Apr 2026
Lunit
Seoul
$200M
Vuno
Seoul
$120M
Kakao Kanana
Jeju
—
KT Mi:dm
Seoul
—
LG AI Research
Seoul
—
Motif Technologies
Seoul
—
Naver
Seongnam
—
Naver HyperCLOVA
Seongnam
—
NC AI
Seongnam
—
Samsung SAIT Gauss
Suwon
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