[Seoul Economic Daily AI English Service 'GLOBE'] Search Visibility Quadruples in Four Months Following Capital Market News 'SIGNAL' Now Mapping Complex Chaebol Ownership Structures
Artificial intelligence works around the clock, quickly, accurately, and at low cost.
What about translating Korean articles into English? Even the fastest professional translator finds it difficult to complete one translation every 30 minutes. Working eight hours a day, that amounts to 16 articles at most. The cost is considerable, and translators do not work at night or on weekends.
'AI LINK's' English-conversion engine 'AI GLOBE' moves beyond those limits. It translates 400 articles a day, more than 10,000 a month, into English in real time. It never stops, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Even real-time breaking news is converted into English and posted to the website in less than 10 minutes.
Since late last year, Seoul Economic Daily has been posting all articles uploaded to its website onto its English site through the AI GLOBE engine. Applying prompting to a top-tier AI foundation model makes the cost high, yet the cost of translating a single article and posting it to the website is only a few hundred won. Even running the English site on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform costs no more than the salary of one employee.
It is not only quantity and speed that stand out. Unlike machine translation that crudely swaps words, the engine renders systems and terms unique to Korea, along with corporate and financial context, in a way that English readers can easily understand.
Search Visibility Quadruples… Preparing for the 'Age of Asking AI' = The change is showing up in numbers. The number of times English articles appeared in Google searches rose fourfold in four months, from 3.38 million in January this year to 13.59 million in May. This means that, amid the stock market boom, more readers worldwide are seeking out and reading Korean news.
Seoul Economic Daily is taking this a step further. Until now, overseas readers found Korean news through search engines, but increasingly they ask AI tools such as ChatGPT directly. If Korean news is not accurately cited in those answers, the Korean perspective is left out of the global conversation. For example, when someone abroad asks AI "how are Korea's semiconductor exports," various tests are underway to ensure that Seoul Economic Daily's English articles are cited as the basis for that answer, going beyond appearing in searches so that AI can draw on Korean news as a trustworthy source.
Korea's Capital Market and Corporate Information in English = The English site offers more than just articles. It is surprisingly difficult for overseas investors to examine Korea's capital market and companies in depth in English, because English-language information is scarce or scattered. Seoul Economic Daily is filling that gap with content. 'SIGNAL,' which delivers exclusive scoops on Korea's capital market in English; 'Chaebol Tree,' which shows complex, intertwined conglomerate ownership structures at a glance; and 'AI KEY,' which provides various information on Korea's major conglomerates in English, are entering service one by one. They provide a window through which Korea's corporate information and news can be viewed in English, even without knowing Korean. Korean news, once confined within walls of text and language and kept within the country, can now cross those walls to reach readers and investors worldwide. While the form and language change, the facts remain unchanged, keeping the news flowing.
Original reporting by Woo Seung-ho for Seoul Economic Daily.
AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording.
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