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Fortune
Mia Osmonbekov

South Korea may be getting too old to take advantage of its AI boom

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South Korea is one of the biggest winners of the AI boom. It’s home to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the two largest manufacturers of memory chips. Chip workers are flashing bonuses of around $400,000. The KOSPI, Korea’s benchmark index, is up almost 60% for the year so far.

Yet a report from Goldman Sachs suggests that all that wealth might not make it to ordinary households.

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