South Korea's industry ministry has temporarily blocked employee access to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek due to security concerns, a ...
South Korea's government and private companies are restricting the use of the Chinese artificial intelligence service DeepSeek following similar moves by other countries.
The country’s defense ministry has blocked DeepSeek from military networks. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has asked the Chinese AI startup to clarify how it handles user data.
Despite the technical concerns, the number of weekly users of the DeepSeek app in Korea has surpassed 1.2 million, ranking it second among generative AI apps after ChatGPT with 4.93 million users.