Public-Sector AI & Work Tools
The government's shared AI platform for civil servants (the ‘Pan-Government Hyperscale AI Common Infrastructure’) runs 11 large language models (LLMs, the engines behind conversational AI such as ChatGPT). According to Ministry of Science and ICT data submitted to the National Assembly, 4 are Korean and 7 are foreign; Samsung SDS supplies 5 and Naver Cloud supplies 6, and both include OpenAI's GPT-OSS, a model agencies can download and run on their own servers. Anyone preparing AI training or proposals for public institutions should assume an environment where different models are picked for different tasks such as drafting, summarizing and translation, not a single Korean model.
HWP Auto DocFit, a public tool that reformats Hangul reports to match agency templates, released v1.73.1 on October 10 and a v1.74 beta on October 11. You can register a sample document (HWP, HWPX or PDF) as an agency template, pick it by thumbnail and apply it in one step, and it can also import Markdown drafts (text styled with the # and * symbols common in AI answers), saving the result as a new file while leaving the original untouched. It can cut the manual work of turning AI-written drafts into official-document layout, but it requires 64-bit Windows and an editable installation of Hancom Hangul, and it is safer to test on copies of important documents first.
Security
The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) are accepting teams for the 2026 AI Hacking Defense Competition (ACDC) until October 26 at 2 p.m. Teams are four people aged 19 or older; after an online qualifier on October 31, where teams find hidden information and defend systems they have taken over against attacks from other teams, 20 teams each from the general and student divisions advance to the finals in Seoul on December 1. This year's finals add tasks that use AI, giving in-house security and AI staff a chance to test hands-on how AI is used in attack and defense.
Mobility
At the National Assembly audit on October 8, a director-general of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said there is still no international standard for Tesla FSD (Tesla's driving-assistance feature that the driver must supervise at all times), and that it has not been reflected in standards because Tesla keeps crash responsibility with the driver. Tesla Korea's CEO said the company has never applied to the government for an official FSD safety test, and as of end-September only 53,477 (22.4%) of the 238,968 Teslas registered in Korea can use FSD. Even if staff use FSD for business travel, company-car and travel policies should be reviewed on the premise that crash responsibility stays with the driver.