CEO Yoo Young-sang announced the launch of AI CIC, a unified organization of SK Telecom’s AI operations, at a town hall meeting on the 25th.
CEO Yoo will concurrently serve as the head of the CIC, with a goal to achieve over 5 trillion KRW in annual revenue by 2030.
The company aims to establish an elite organizational structure that enables swift and autonomous decision-making, laying the groundwork for AI business innovation.,
Yoo Young-sang, CEO of SK Telecom, explains the AI pyramid strategy to team members during an internal event.ⒸSK Telecom, ‘[Dailyan = Jo In-young Reporter] SK Telecom announced on the 25th that it would launch an AI CIC (Company in Company) to drive rapid AI innovation by consolidating company-wide AI capabilities through a town hall meeting led by CEO Yoo Young-sang.’,
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, ‘During the town hall meeting, CEO Yoo stated, “To seize the golden time of AI where crises and opportunities coexist due to rapidly changing AI environments, internal AI innovation from a demand perspective and business innovation from a supply perspective are necessary.” He further mentioned, “To this end, we are launching a new AI CIC, an elite organizational system that consolidates company-wide AI capabilities.”‘,
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, ‘SKT plans to develop the newly launched AI CIC as the main entity of SKT’s AI business and a core driver of SK Group’s overall AI endeavors. It also intends to advance internal AI innovation, including system improvements, organizational culture, and the enhancement of team members’ AI capabilities.’,
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, ‘SKT is restructuring its functions and organizations under the AI CIC system, including ▲ A. Service ▲ A. Biz service for enterprises ▲ AI DC (Data Center) business ▲ global AI partnership investments ▲ AI R&D ▲ messaging/authentication business, in a bid to enhance productivity and efficiency through AI innovation. CEO Yoo Young-sang will concurrently serve as the AI CIC’s head, with specific organizational restructuring to be implemented by the end of October.’,
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, ‘The newly established AI CIC is expected to build a fast and agile organizational system to dynamically respond to environmental changes, fostering a performance-oriented and continuously challenging organizational culture based on the capabilities of its team members.’,
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, ‘The AI CIC plans to invest approximately 5 trillion KRW over the next five years to achieve an annual revenue of over 5 trillion KRW by 2030.’,
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, ‘To this end, the CIC aims to secure an independent and sustainable revenue structure through a stable virtuous cycle of ‘AI demand (AI B2C, AI B2B)’ and ‘AI supply (AI infrastructure)’.’,
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, ‘‘AI B2C’ will focus on securing a sustainable revenue model by expanding the subscriber base for A. service both domestically and internationally, while ‘AI B2B’ will accelerate business expansion by proving productivity improvements through agentic AI services like A. Biz and securing references in the manufacturing AI sector.’,
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, ‘The ‘AI DC’ business aims to establish itself as the top AI DC business in Korea by targeting global big tech companies for hosting and leading government projects.’,
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, ‘Through the integration and consolidation of dispersed AI technology assets, the AI CIC seeks to enhance its ‘AI Platform’ role, supporting AI technologies and operations across SKT and the broader SK Group. It also plans to secure adaptable ‘AI models’ to meet diverse government, industry, and private AI needs.’,
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, ‘Additionally, it will swiftly advance R&D and expand partnerships underpinned by full-stack AI capabilities in emerging growth areas like digital twins and robotics.’,
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, ‘CEO Yoo stated, “The SKT AI CIC aims to become Korea’s representative AI business across all areas of service, platform, AI DC, and autonomous foundation models. Through this, we aim to play a central role in building the domestic AI ecosystem and contribute to the success of the national AI strategy.”‘,
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, ‘CEO Yoo also unveiled plans to enhance AI competitiveness by incorporating AI into company systems, organizational culture, and strengthening team members’ capabilities, alongside accelerating innovation in AI business from a supplier’s perspective.’,
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, ‘The plan aims to balance AI-competent team members across the organization to strengthen company-wide AI capabilities while also expanding individual careers, creating a synergy effect.’,
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, ‘Additionally, efforts are being made to accelerate AI transformation (AX) of company systems and infrastructure. The MNO business will focus on optimizing and automating key work processes and innovating on/offline customer contact points, while the network (infrastructure) business will drive work innovations based on AX by enhancing network operation automation and improving the stability of intelligent network-based services.’,
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, ‘The company also seeks to enhance work productivity through AI-based innovations. By maximizing the scope and use of A. Biz within the company and leading AI work innovations through the operation of the AI Frontier and AI Board, SKT aims to promote an AI-centric internal culture.’,
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, ‘Finally, CEO Yoo encouraged team members to gather strength to help SKT regain customer trust and re-emerge through the three main innovation tasks announced that day: AI innovation, security innovation, and fundamental competitiveness innovation (O/I).’,
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, ‘In the security area, the company plans to pursue a security-first strategy that includes strengthening security governance centered on the information protection innovation measures announced last July, establishing a zero-trust information protection framework, and expanding security organizations and personnel, adopting consulting processes with domestic and international security experts and institutions.’,
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, ‘Additionally, SKT will continue to pursue fundamental competitiveness innovation (O/I) by enhancing productivity and efficiency across all areas of its communications business using AI.’,
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, ‘CEO Yoo stated, “Over the past three years, SK Telecom has secured various achievements in its transformation into an AI company, including acquiring 10 million A. service subscribers, selecting an autonomous AI foundation model, initiating the Ulsan AI DC, and building global partnerships. With the AI CIC at the center, we aim to achieve another AI innovation to regain trust from customers and the market and advance as a global AI company.”\n’]