FT Profiles South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, the AI Researcher Turning $648B Into a National AI Push

The FT profiles Bae Kyung-hoon, South Korea's science minister and Deputy PM — himself a former AI researcher — leading a 1,000-trillion-won (~$648B) buildout of an 18.4 GW national AI data-center estate by 2035. Bae, who has warned Seoul 'does not have the luxury of slowing down AI development,' is driving the AI Basic Act rollout and pitching a public-benefit framing to head off Samsung-style labour tensions.