{"id":786001,"date":"2026-07-08T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786001\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:09:11","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-fuelling-youth-unemployment-in-south-korea-but-taxes-from-the-semiconductor-boom-could-offer-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786001\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is fuelling youth unemployment in South Korea, but taxes from the semiconductor boom could offer a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewed from afar, South Korea looks like a clear winner from the rise of AI. Some of its biggest companies are booming because of the global appetite for chips and data centres.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/markets\/equity-markets\/bubble-busters-or-broken-clocks-when-market-bears-are-early-or-wrong-20260707-p60dau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SK Hynix<\/a>, its leading chipmakers, have both topped $US1 trillion ($1.4 trillion) in market capitalisation. And because these companies have powerful unions, their workers are securing a share of the surge in profits.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viewed from afar, South Korea looks like a clear winner from the rise of AI. Some of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-786001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}