Scholar proposes joint AI and content development at the Qingdao Multinationals Summit
Keynote at the Korean Multinationals Roundtable, 7th Qingdao Multinationals Summit (QMS)
Calls for joint development and shared overseas expansion in AI and content — Chinese government and businesses respond
“Coevolution” has surfaced as a new grammar for Korea–China economic cooperation. Samseog Ko (고삼석), a chair professor of AI at Dongguk University, told the 7th Qingdao Multinationals Summit (QMS) in Qingdao, Shandong Province, this June that the two countries should move beyond conventional trading partners and become ‘coevolution partners’ who develop technology and build markets together. Chinese government officials and corporate executives responded with agreement.
The old division of labor — one side supplying technology and products while the other opens its market — is unraveling fast as artificial intelligence (AI) rises. China leads in data, manufacturing AI and infrastructure scale, while Korea holds an edge in semiconductors and AI application services; as the field of innovation that neither can reach alone keeps widening, the case for a cooperation model built on joint development and shared risk has grown stronger. The two governments’ declaration of a “full normalization of relations” at last year’s APEC summit in Gyeongju cleared a path for the shift.