Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon and Kakao CEO Chung Shin-a were both ranked near the top of Fortune's list of the 100 most influential Asian women leaders.
Fortune on the 7th selected the 100 most influential Asian women leaders and placed Choi at No. 8. Choi climbed 10 spots from last year (No. 18) to break into the top 10.
Fortune noted, "Now in her second term, Choi is focusing on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into core services," adding, "Naver is also concentrating on developing 'sovereign AI.'"
Chung also ranked No. 24, entering the top 30. Chung's ranking last year was No. 45.
Fortune explained, "Kakao operates KakaoTalk, the most widely used service in Korea, with 49 million monthly active users," and added, "Chung is leading efforts to combine the company's services with AI through a new collaboration with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT."
Other Korean women business leaders on the list include Kim Min-young, Netflix vice president overseeing Asia-Pacific (No. 49); Lee Sun-jung, CEO of CJ Olive Young, who holds the title of CJ's youngest female chief executive (No. 57); Chairman Seo Sung-seok, founder of COSMAX (No. 82); and Lee Soo-kyung, P&G global beauty president (No. 88).