{
  "id": 17190576,
  "title": "More Korean workers rushing to paid AI classes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/more-korean-workers-rushing-to-paid-ai-classes-17190576",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-30T07:02:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/20261030/more-korean-workers-rushing-to-paid-ai-classes"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "As Korean workers rush to acquire paid AI skills, a recent class on Claude Code in Seoul's Seocho District drew a dozen office employees. Hong Lim, a 40-year-old marketer, spent her weekend attending the course taught by a renowned instructor. Participants learned to set up Claude Code, integrate it with communication and collaboration tools, and automate routine tasks. The class, priced at 1 million won ($700), ran for nine hours daily, with attendees remaining seated even during breaks. Despite the steep cost, Lim believed the investment was justified. As she observed her coworkers mastering AI, Lim expressed concern about falling behind. She now utilizes AI for marketing research, material comparison, report drafting, and record retrieval in her work.",
  "summary": "Lim, 40, a marketer at a large corporation, recently spent her Saturday and Sunday attending a class on Claude Code taught by a well-known instructor in Seoul’s Seocho District. Claude Code is an artificial intelligence (AI) coding agent developed by U.S.-based Anthropic. She learned how to set up a Claude Code environment, connect it to email, calendars and collaboration and document management…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}