Special Feature: "Making AI Impossible Without Korea"—CEO Young-jae Jang Outlines Turnkey Physical AI Strategy
- 2026.09.17
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In its in-depth series AI Value Chain, News1 spotlighted Physical AI as South Korea`s next strategic growth engine beyond HBM memory supply. The analysis emphasizes transitioning from reliance on foreign foundation models toward a model of "managed interdependence," anchored by Korea`s robust manufacturing hardware and system integration (SI) capabilities.
Young-jae Jang, CEO of DAIM Research and Professor at KAIST, pointed out that only South Korea and China possess the industrial depth required to build end-to-end Physical AI hardware ecosystems. Jang emphasized establishing data interoperability standards across sensors, industrial communications, and automation machinery to generate actionable contextual data. He presented the turnkey export of Physical AI Unmanned Factory Platforms—delivering fully integrated, factory-wide systems rather than piecemeal equipment—as the decisive playbook to capture global market share.
