{"id":205130,"date":"2026-03-23T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/kt-publishes-148-ai-papers-expands-real-world-applications-upi-com\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:12:37","slug":"kt-publishes-148-ai-papers-expands-real-world-applications-upi-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/kt-publishes-148-ai-papers-expands-real-world-applications-upi-com\/","title":{"rendered":"KT publishes 148 AI papers, expands real-world applications &#8211; upi.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> \t\t\tarticle ul\tli { list-style: disc; padding: 5px 0; } \t\t<\/style>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 15px;\"> \t\t\t<script type=\"module\" crossorigin data-ll=\"1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/instaread.co\/js\/instaread.player.js\"><\/script> \t\t\t<instaread-player publication=\"upi\"><\/instaread-player> \t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 22 (Asia Today) &#8212;<\/span> KT said Sunday it has published 148 artificial intelligence research papers over the past five years, as it steps up efforts to translate research into commercial services.<\/p>\n<p>The company said 49 of those papers were accepted at leading global conferences, including the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the Neural Information Processing Systems conference. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"upi-ad-unit\">\n<div class=\"upi-content\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KT has formed joint research centers with major universities such as Seoul National University, KAIST and Korea University, combining academic expertise with its own technology and business experience. It is also collaborating with Microsoft Research to strengthen its global research capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it has built a framework that integrates research planning, validation and commercialization, aiming to ensure that research outcomes are directly applied to services and business operations. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-inline lato\">\n<h3 class=\"arimo bold\">Related<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/20\/korea-aerospace-CEO\/1331774015074\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Related Article', 'World News');\"  title=\"Korea Aerospace Industries&#039; new CEO takes office\">Korea Aerospace Industries&#8217; new CEO takes office<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/20\/nkorea-deepfake-online-hiring-interview\/1741773979133\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Related Article', 'World News');\"  title=\"AI &#039;fake applicant&#039; case raises North Korea job scam fears\">AI &#8216;fake applicant&#8217; case raises North Korea job scam fears<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/17\/government-investment-domestic-ai-semiconductor-companies\/9611773802491\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Related Article', 'World News');\"  title=\"South Korea launches &#039;K-NVIDIA&#039; push with $38B investment\">South Korea launches &#8216;K-NVIDIA&#8217; push with $38B investment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since last year, KT has expanded its research focus to include agentic AI, vertical AI, responsible AI and physical AI. It said multimodal and agentic AI technologies are already being applied to commercial services, including its &#8220;Mi:um K&#8221; platform and agentic fabric-based systems.<\/p>\n<p>KT held a joint workshop Wednesday at its Umyeon Research Center in southern Seoul with researchers from Seoul National University and KAIST to review ongoing projects and discuss future research directions and business applications. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\" style=\"min-height: 305px;\">\n<div class=\"upi-ad-unit\">\n<div class=\"upi-content\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oh Seung-pil, head of KT&#8217;s technology innovation division, said the company will continue to strengthen its AI capabilities by aligning research and product development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will proactively secure next-generation AI technologies through a roadmap that closely links research and products, and continue to enhance AI competitiveness in real industrial environments,&#8221; Oh said.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8212; Reported by Asia Today; translated by UPI<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a9 Asia Today. Unauthorized reproduction or redistribution prohibited.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Original Korean report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiatoday.co.kr\/kn\/view.php?key=20260322010006336\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.asiatoday.co.kr\/kn\/view.php?key=20260322010006336<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<div data-widget-host=\"revcontent\" data-lz-widget data-pub-id=\"49476\" data-widget-id=\"288021\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"upi-ad-unit\">\n<div class=\"upi-content\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sections\">\n<div class=\"sections-header m-t-20\">\n<div class=\"widget-header\">\n<h3 class=\"l-s-25\">Latest Headlines<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row story list m-t-30\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/23\/latam-colombia-military-plane-crash\/3561774287618\/\" title=\"Military aircraft carrying 125 people crashes in Colombia\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Latest Headline', 'World News');\" class=\"row\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-4\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/img\/clear.gif\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdnph.upi.com\/ph\/st\/th\/3561774287618\/2026\/i\/17742897143453\/v1.2\/Military-aircraft-carrying-125-people-crashes-in-Colombia.jpg?stfi=1\" title=\"Military aircraft carrying 125 people crashes in Colombia\" alt=\"Military aircraft carrying 125 people crashes in Colombia\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" style=\"width:200px; 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Korea should maintain &#8220;strategic ambiguity&#8221; in responding to U.S. pressure over the Middle East crisis, experts said, as tensions surrounding Iran.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/22\/banks-corporate-payment-guarantees\/2541774220483\/\" title=\"South Korean banks tighten corporate guarantees amid risks\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Latest Headline', 'World News');\" class=\"row\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-4\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/img\/clear.gif\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdnph.upi.com\/ph\/st\/th\/2541774220483\/2026\/i\/17742228375732\/v1.2\/South-Korean-banks-tighten-corporate-guarantees-amid-risks.jpg?stfi=1\" title=\"South Korean banks tighten corporate guarantees amid risks\" alt=\"South Korean banks tighten corporate guarantees amid risks\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" style=\"width:200px; height: 166px;\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 col-sm-8 col-xs-8\">\n<div class=\"category\"><span>World News<\/span> <i class=\"time-ago\">\/\/ 20 hours ago<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"title\">South Korean banks tighten corporate guarantees amid risks<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\"> March 22 (Asia Today) &#8212; S. Korea&#8217;s four largest banks are tightening corporate payment guarantees as exporters face mounting pressure from U.S. tariffs and high exchange rate<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 22 (Asia Today) &#8212;<\/span> KT said Sunday it has published 148 artificial intelligence research papers over the past five years, as it steps up efforts to translate research into commercial services.<br \/>The company said 49 of those papers were accepted at leading global conferences, including the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the Neural Information Processing Systems conference. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"upi-ad-unit\">\n<div class=\"upi-content\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KT has formed joint research centers with major universities such as Seoul National University, KAIST and Korea University, combining academic expertise with its own technology and business experience. It is also collaborating with Microsoft Research to strengthen its global research capabilities.<br \/>The company said it has built a framework that integrates research planning, validation and commercialization, aiming to ensure that research outcomes are directly applied to services and business operations. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-inline lato\">\n<h3 class=\"arimo bold\">Related<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/20\/korea-aerospace-CEO\/1331774015074\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Related Article', 'World News');\"  title=\"Korea Aerospace Industries&#039; new CEO takes office\">Korea Aerospace Industries&#8217; new CEO takes office<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/20\/nkorea-deepfake-online-hiring-interview\/1741773979133\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Related Article', 'World News');\"  title=\"AI &#039;fake applicant&#039; case raises North Korea job scam fears\">AI &#8216;fake applicant&#8217; case raises North Korea job scam fears<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/03\/17\/government-investment-domestic-ai-semiconductor-companies\/9611773802491\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"upi_gtag('Story', 'Related Article', 'World News');\"  title=\"South Korea launches &#039;K-NVIDIA&#039; push with $38B investment\">South Korea launches &#8216;K-NVIDIA&#8217; push with $38B investment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since last year, KT has expanded its research focus to include agentic AI, vertical AI, responsible AI and physical AI. It said multimodal and agentic AI technologies are already being applied to commercial services, including its &#8220;Mi:um K&#8221; platform and agentic fabric-based systems.<br \/>KT held a joint workshop Wednesday at its Umyeon Research Center in southern Seoul with researchers from Seoul National University and KAIST to review ongoing projects and discuss future research directions and business applications. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\" style=\"min-height: 305px;\">\n<div class=\"upi-ad-unit\">\n<div class=\"upi-content\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oh Seung-pil, head of KT&#8217;s technology innovation division, said the company will continue to strengthen its AI capabilities by aligning research and product development.<br \/>&#8220;We will proactively secure next-generation AI technologies through a roadmap that closely links research and products, and continue to enhance AI competitiveness in real industrial environments,&#8221; Oh said.<br \/><i>&#8212; Reported by Asia Today; translated by UPI<\/i><br \/><i>\u00a9 Asia Today. Unauthorized reproduction or redistribution prohibited.<\/i><br \/><i>Original Korean report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiatoday.co.kr\/kn\/view.php?key=20260322010006336\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.asiatoday.co.kr\/kn\/view.php?key=20260322010006336<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxQLVBtMm1Kbl9XYUItZ2xPdlpKcFRTajVBNnlEVHVwZTZidlAzZWQtc1FBQ293ZmtTelVpOHJ4U1JmdjJjaDZsN25MYkZpNzVWV0VTUnp2YjVRZXVtSTJzS3hxSGFaMmpOTndXWjBLUjlVQmJyZnVTWnBzZFBHQ2hVVU5HVmZKVWpIdTdDaEtacHRzeGJFeHd1ajhMV0RzSGpHaTI4Um02ZWJ5SkRz0gGyAUFVX3lxTE1PM1pZUUxyRWZkQ3RsYVVGTUhKLVZ4YjVZYVhmOEVMcDFxWW0zd2dQYVVzSzdkMXBWdkRmRWM5VHBpZGJ2V2JmQkR0SGZaUGdfZUZmUXlZWlZXSlpJNU9MV0FNZjJLVWk4dkZCMGNzRHVyXzRjMXhrYlBsYm5aZThISTN0NVpfVXI0S0taT1V5cHBjZDZ5QVd1R3h4ZXFmY1RHdC1QbGtvOVRZaHZaVVJjbmc?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22 (Asia Today) &#8212; KT said Sunday it has published 148 artificial intelligence research papers over the past five years, as it steps up efforts to translate research into commercial services. 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