My shoulders feel heavy.
Park Yoon-young, president of KT, answered this way when asked on the 9th about her thoughts on taking office after finishing a meeting with Bae Kyung-hoon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Science and ICT, and the CEOs of the three telecom companies. Park stood at an official event for the first time since she was appointed CEO through KT's 2026 regular shareholders meeting on the 31st.
Park also apologized for the hacking incident that occurred last year. Park said, "We are deeply sorry for causing great inconvenience and concern to the public and the government due to the hacking of femtocells (ultra-small base stations). We will do our best to build a network that customers can use safely going forward." She added, "Since taking office, the very first places I visited were the information security unit and network sites."
Park also showed her resolve to restore trust, saying, "When I visited the sites, I felt KT's underlying strength as I saw the sense of duty and professionalism of employees who have silently stayed at their posts."
Park named the "AX (AI transformation) platform" as a core business that day. Park said, "AI is the most important part of industry that we cannot resist," adding, "We will build a stage so that the main actor, AI, can develop to the fullest in Korea and industry can also advance. The company that builds that stage is an AX platform company." She also said the company will build, both technologically and commercially, everything from AI data center infrastructure to operating systems.
Earlier, in her inaugural address on the 31st, Park expressed her ambition to develop KT's identity into an AX platform company. After taking office, she created a new "AX business division" by integrating the company's functions that had been dispersed across B2B strategy, business, technology, and partnerships through an organizational restructuring.
Starting with its independently developed large language model (LLM) "Mit:eum 2.0," KT has introduced models such as the AI "SOTA K," developed in cooperation with Microsoft (MS), and Lama K, developed on an open-source basis, strengthening its B2B business with a multi-LLM strategy.