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South Korea's privacy watchdog inaugurates new chair with eye on AI ambitions

By Jenny Lee ( October 10, 2025, 05:22 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s privacy watchdog inaugurated a new chair on Friday, with Song Kyung-hee outlining an agenda that ties stronger personal-data protection to the country’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. In her inaugural address, Song, the new head of the Personal Information Protection Commission, said she felt a deep sense of duty “at an important time when data and AI determine national competitiveness,” pledging to build a personal-information protection framework that citizens can trust while supporting South Korea’s push to become one of the world’s top three AI powers.South Korea’s privacy watchdog inaugurated a new chair on Friday, with Song Kyung-hee outlining an agenda that ties stronger personal-data protection to the country’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. ...

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