Anthropic has opened its Seoul office and announced a new partnership with a South Korean AI ecosystem partner.

June 17, Anthropic officially announced the launch of its Seoul office and new partnerships with enterprises, startups, and research institutions across Korea’s AI ecosystem. NAVER has rolled out Claude Code across its entire engineering organization, with thousands of engineers using the tool to boost coding productivity. Global online gaming firm Nexon’s engineering team is also leveraging Claude Code for key tasks related to real-time service games: writing, reviewing, and deploying game code. On the enterprise front, LG CNS has deployed Claude to thousands of its employees and plans to expand access across the broader LG Group. Hanwha Solutions is making Claude available to its global workforce via AWS Bedrock to meet regional data residency and security requirements. Samsung SDS is rolling out Claude to Samsung Electronics employees for use cases including daily knowledge work, intelligent process orchestration, and software development. Additionally, Claude for Startups has launched in Korea, and this week Anthropic partnered with BASS Ventures to host the Claude Build Day event.