AI Agent Development Company in Seoul

The number follows what you actually build: a scoped AI agent proof of concept (one workflow, KakaoTalk Channel integration, Korean-language NLU baseline), a production KakaoTalk Channels B2B agent or Naver Cloud Clova Studio agent with Korean payment integration, PIPA consent ledger, and AI Framework Act risk classification documentation, or chaebol enterprise agents with Samsung Knox SDK, Korean banking security review, KISA-accredited penetration testing, and the full procurement documentation pack. Pricing is fixed-fee in KRW with USD locked at signing.

Korea's AI Framework Act (인공지능 기본법) passed the National Assembly in December 2024 and takes effect in January 2026. It classifies high-impact AI systems (employment screening, credit decisioning, healthcare, biometrics, content moderation at scale, critical infrastructure), imposes transparency, human oversight, and incident reporting obligations, and gives KAIT and the Ministry of Science and ICT enforcement authority. For agent deployments we run the Act's risk classification during discovery, ship Korean-language AI disclosure on every agent surface, maintain a tamper-evident inference log for the audit window, deliver a model card in Korean, and document human-in-the-loop review gates for high-impact decisions. Korean enterprise procurement is already screening vendors against the Act.

Both, depending on the use case. Naver HyperCLOVA X on Naver Cloud Clova Studio is our default for Korean-first agent workloads where data residency must stay inside Korea, where Korean code-switching and han-geul performance matter, or where chaebol vendor management offices prefer a Korean foundation model. KakaoBrain KoGPT and Kanana are options when the client has an existing Kakao enterprise relationship. Frontier APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini) are appropriate when the agent needs frontier-tier reasoning, when cross-border data flow is acceptable under PIPA consent, or when the workload sits outside the AI Framework Act high-impact tier. We will tell you up front which choice fits your use case rather than defaulting to whichever API the marketing budget favours that quarter.

Yes. KakaoTalk Channels is the dominant Korean small business CRM surface, with more than 500,000 active Channels driving customer acquisition, booking, and payments through Kakao's friend-add and message-send flows. Our Channel agents wrap the KakaoTalk Channel Manager API for friend add, Kakao SyncTalk for OAuth, KakaoPay for checkout, Naver Pay where the merchant has a Smart Store, and Korean-language NLU tuned for the casual Korean and han-geul plus Hanja code-switching that Korean small business customer service actually uses. Builds ship inside Kakao's Channel review process, which checks message templates against Kakao's spam and consumer protection rules before a Channel can send broadcast messages.

PIPA (Personal Information Protection Act) requires explicit consent for personal data collection, separate consent for sensitive data (health, biometric, sexual orientation, political opinion, criminal history), pseudonymisation where feasible, and a documented retention schedule that defaults to deletion after purpose completion. Agent surfaces collecting PII ship with a Korean-language consent screen that itemises purpose, retention period, and third-party sharing, a consent ledger in a tamper-evident store, PIPA Article 24-2 RRN tokenisation through KISA-accredited providers (NICE, KCB) when resident registration numbers are in scope, and a Korean-language withdrawal flow accessible from every agent screen. We coordinate with a Personal Information Protection Officer (PIPO) on the client side.

Yes. Samsung Knox SDK exposes Android enterprise APIs Samsung has built on top of standard AOSP for Galaxy device fleets used inside Samsung, LG, Hyundai, SK, and most Korean enterprise clients. Agent deployments inside chaebol device fleets integrate Knox Workspace for containerised enterprise data isolation so agent inference logs and PII stay inside the enterprise container, Knox Manage MDM enrolment so agent builds are signed against the client's Knox partner certificate, and Knox Attestation for device integrity verification before sensitive agent actions execute. We coordinate with Samsung SDS subcontracting tiers when the client's procurement runs through that channel and deliver the K-ISMS-P self-assessment in Korean.

Samsung, LG, Hyundai, and SK procurement cycles run twelve to eighteen months from first RFI to signed master service agreement, with a separate purchase order cycle on top. We structure proposals against that reality. Phase one is an RFI response and reference architecture document plus an AI Framework Act risk classification draft (four to six weeks). Phase two is an RFP response with detailed technical design, K-ISMS-P self-assessment, Korean-language SOW, and Korean-language model card (eight to twelve weeks). Phase three is security review including source code escrow with KOTRA or a chaebol-approved escrow agent, KISA-accredited penetration testing, and PIPA impact assessment (six to eight weeks). Phase four is pilot deployment and acceptance testing (eight to twelve weeks).

Yes. Korean is the primary language for every Seoul engagement and our Korean-speaking agent engineers handle prompt design, evaluation, and red-team testing in han-geul, Hanja, and Korean code-switching cases that Western teams routinely miss. For cross-market launches into Japan we run a parallel evaluation track on Japanese with the same model where the foundation model supports it (HyperCLOVA X has strong Korean and decent Japanese performance, KoGPT is Korean-first, frontier APIs handle both well). English is generated alongside both as the documentation and developer-experience language. Cross-market launches also account for Japanese APPI and Korean PIPA differences in consent, retention, and cross-border transfer rules.