Barcelona, March 2–5 — Korea's three major mobile carriers arrive at MWC 2026 with a fundamentally different message than the one they carried to Barcelona just twelve months ago. In 2025, SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus were racing to demonstrate that Korean telecoms could compete in the global AI arena. In 2026, that question has been answered. The new challenge — and the new story playing out across 992 square meters of booth space and a coveted opening-day keynote slot — is about something larger: who gets to define what AI means for the connected world, and whether Korean carriers can claim a seat at that table not just as technology adopters, but as technology originators.
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