Anthropic appoints KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea ahead of Seoul office opening
Key Points
- KiYoung Choi named Representative Director, Korea
- Seoul office opening soon; senior leadership visiting
- Claude in production at SK Telecom and Law&Company
Summary
Anthropic has named KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea as it prepares to open a Seoul office. Choi—formerly General Manager for Korea at Snowflake with prior leadership at Google Cloud, Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft—will lead go-to-market, partnerships, and local team-building to support rapid adoption of Claude across Korean enterprises, startups, government, and the developer community. Senior Anthropic leadership will visit Seoul to formally open the office and meet customers.
Key Points
- Leadership: KiYoung Choi joins with 30+ years of regional tech leadership to run Anthropic's Korea strategy and local team.
- Strategic focus: build local go-to-market, enterprise and startup partnerships, government and research engagement, and developer community support.
- Existing Korea use cases: Law&Company uses Claude for AI legal assistance; SK Telecom uses Claude for a custom AI customer service model.
- Near-term actions: Seoul office opening and leadership visit; hiring and career opportunities available at anthropic.com/careers.
- Impact for engineers: increased local product support, partnership opportunities for integrations, and a stronger developer ecosystem for building with Claude.