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00:0620 humanoid robots will start working alongside people in Korean factories and warehouses.
00:13Krafton is hiring more than 100 new graduates, its largest ever, and applications close October 23rd.
00:20Unmanned stores in Korea now number about 12,000, and workers under 30 have taken the biggest hit.
00:28And Kakao is turning Kakao Talk into an AI-assistant platform.
00:34It's Wednesday, October 14th.
00:36Let's talk about a trend affecting young professionals in Korea.
00:40Employers are changing what entry-level work looks like with robots on factory floors and kiosks at the counter.
00:47At the same time, game and tech companies are recruiting graduates specifically for AI skills.
00:52And AI is also raising the stakes on security, where Korean organizations score below the global average.
00:59Here's what the numbers show.
01:00The government granted a demonstration exemption to place 20 humanoid robots from Robros at Nepez,
01:08Sungwoo Hitech, HD Hyundai Samho, and Delivery Lab,
01:12doing tasks from cleaning semiconductor parts to moving refrigerated packaging.
01:17Krafton will hire more than 100 new graduates in six tracks, including AI research, tech, and game development,
01:26with applications open October 13th to 23 and final results in January.
01:33Interns start in February and work five months with a conversion decision in July
01:38after an AI competency assessment that uses Krafton's own evaluation tool.
01:45Unmanned stores number about 12,000 by Samsung Cards estimate,
01:50and in Seoul restaurants that adopted kiosks, sales and serving staff fell about one 1.5% comma,
01:59with workers aged 29 and under down 23.1%.
02:03Cisco rated Korean organization Cyber Defense at 58 out of 100 versus a global average of 64,
02:13with only 1% of Korean organizations in the top defender tier versus 8% worldwide.
02:21Kakao will take pre-registrations for Kanana Space,
02:24an AI assistant inside Kakao Talk used by 50 million people with pilot access from December.
02:31So, what does this mean for young professionals navigating their next move?
02:36Earlier, we said unmanned stores now number about 12,000,
02:41and workers under 30 have taken the biggest hit.
02:44Here's what that actually means for you.
02:46Order taking and payment are the tasks kiosks absorb first,
02:51so retail and food service jobs built around them are the most exposed for young workers.
02:57By contrast, Krafton's hiring and its AI skills assessment,
03:02along with humanoid pilots that put robots beside workers,
03:06suggest where employer demand is heading.
03:10What to watch?
03:11Krafton's October 23rd application deadline and its November to December testing and interviews.
03:18Results of the humanoid demonstration and whether safety standards are revised
03:22for wider factory use, and whether regulators standardize kiosk ordering steps,
03:28which 84.8% of surveyed consumers said is needed.
03:34That's today's AI Prism Early Careers.
03:37This episode was produced with AI assistants,
03:40based on Seoul Economic Daily reporting,
03:42and reviewed by a human editor.
03:45AI Prism is a Juan IFRA award-winning series.
03:48We'll be back tomorrow.
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