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SEOUL BUILDS.

UPDATED Oct 20, 2026

Ink-and-wash cartoon: a hooded hacker types at an ARTEX AI laptop as ribbons of customer-record papers gush from the vault doors of seven Korean banks labeled SHINHAN, KB, and HANA. — ZIMBO'S TAKE“THE PAPER GUSHER.”

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South Korea's AI push: frontier models, sovereign AI, chips and talent.

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MORE CARTOONS3 original cartoons

Satirical cartoon: a Korean government official fires a starting pistol while clutching a giant '$3.5 BILLION' check beside an 'AI CHIPS' stockpile, as two identical Korean-flagged robots sprint neck-and-neck — the nation racing itself.

THE TWO-HORSE RACE.

Merv the anxious robot guard stands before a giant vault door marked $92M SECURITY while a masked robot wheels customer records out an open STAFF side door. Loose ink-and-wash cartoon.

THE $92 MILLION FRONT DOOR.

Satirical cartoon: workers assemble a giant K-AI robot monument while hoisting crates labeled CHIPS, DATA and TALENT; a billboard reads ₩4.7 TRILLION FRONTIER AI (2027); Merv the anxious robot and Issue the tabby cat watch in the foreground.

SEOUL IS BUILDING ITS OWN AI.

OLDER HEADLINES2 earlier stories

Oct 10, 2026
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KOREA JUST BET $3.5 BILLION ON ITS OWN AI
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