Anthropic opens Seoul office and announces new collaboration with Korean AI ecosystem partner

In comparison, Anthropic announced the official opening of its Seoul office and the establishment of new partnerships with companies, startups, and research institutes in the Korean AI ecosystem. NAVER has recently deployed Claude Code across the engineering organization, and currently thousands of engineers are using Claude Code to improve coding productivity; the engineering team at global online gaming company Nexon is also using Claude Code to write, review, and publish code for real-time service games.

For large enterprises, LG CNS is rolling out Claude to thousands of employees and plans to deploy it further within the LG Group; Hanwha Solutions is providing Claude to global employees through AWS Bedrock to meet regional data residency and security requirements; and Samsung SDS is deploying Claude to Samsung Electronics employees for everyday knowledge work, intelligent workflows, and software development. Additionally, Claude for Startups has launched in Korea, and Anthropic is co-hosting Claude Build Day with BASS Ventures this week.