Anthropic opens Seoul office and expands Claude partnerships in Korea
Anthropic has opened a Seoul office and is expanding partnerships with Korean companies, startups, and research groups. NAVER has rolled out Claude Code across its whole engineering organization, with thousands of engineers using it to broaden their coding tools and improve coding . Nexon engineering teams use Claude Code to write, review, and ship code for live-service games played by millions of people worldwide.
LG CNS is giving Claude to thousands of employees and plans to deploy it across LG Group. Hanwha Solutions is bringing Claude to global employees through AWS Bedrock to meet local data storage and security needs. Samsung SDS is deploying Claude, , and Claude Code to Samsung Electronics employees for daily knowledge work, , and software development.
Channel Corp uses Claude inside Channel Talk to handle customer questions and analyze service and sales data, and the product is used by more than 230,000 companies in Korea, Japan, and the United States. Anthropic will also give Claude access to up to 60 researchers connected to Korea’s National AI Research Lab and is expanding startup programs and developer events in Korea.
Key points
- Anthropic opened a Seoul office to expand Claude business and partnerships in Korea.
- NAVER deployed Claude Code across its engineering organization, and Nexon uses it for game development work.
- LG CNS, Hanwha Solutions, and Samsung SDS are rolling out Claude for employee work and software development.
- Channel Corp uses Claude in Channel Talk for customer support and business .
- Anthropic will support up to 60 Korean AI researchers and run more startup and developer programs.