KT (Korea Telecom)

KT (Korea Telecom)

https://corp.kt.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kt/

KT, also known as Korea Telecom, is a publicly owned company headquartered in South Korea. Founded in 1981, the company has an estimated 6,580 employees and reported $19.9 billion in revenue as of 2025. Functioning primarily in telecoms, KT is a South Korean telecommunications company that operates as the second-largest wireless carrier in South Korea.

Revenue

Founded

1981

Headcount

16,927

Headquarters

South Korea

Primary Segment

Telecoms

Ownership

Publicly Owned

News Summary:

KT recently won the Digital Innovation Award at the Global Data and AI Analysis Conference on July 10, 2026, recognized for establishing an AI-based company-wide data analysis environment that analyzes data and automatically generates dashboards from natural language questions. Earlier on the same day, Mobile World Live highlighted KT's $12 billion plan to drive its AI ambitions. This followed KT's announcement on July 9 that it joined UN and ITU-led meetings in Geneva, including the AI for Good summit and a UN AI governance dialogue, to discuss responsible AI, digital trust, and global AI standards, where it outlined a trust framework for agent-based AI and service-level safeguards. Concurrently on July 9, KT HCN, an affiliated cable TV operator, faced weakening profitability from its core broadcasting business and is now accelerating efforts to discover new revenue sources amidst a group-wide organizational restructuring. Earlier that day, major telecom companies, including KT, anticipated mixed second-quarter earnings ahead of a broader push into artificial intelligence investments in the second half of the year.

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KT (Korea Telecom) offers 10 products in the connectivity and cloud, media and telecoms services, ad tech and services and telecoms tech industries. KT (Korea Telecom)'s product portfolio comprises of consumer electronics, media and TV services, enterprise and telecoms software, telecoms, enterprise connectivity services and advertising, marketing, media agencies.

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KT (Korea Telecom)'s revenues were $19.9B in 2025. Caretta Research has split KT (Korea Telecom)'s revenue into 9 different product categories, the largest of which is mobile services, which represents 26% of KT (Korea Telecom)'s revenue.

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Emerging Tech, New Offerings, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings, Regulations and Policies

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Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Investments

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09:45

Partnerships and Alliances, B2B Tag, Partnerships

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Jul

15th

2026

07:15

Events, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings, Events and Conferences

KT has unveiled its future AI transformation (AX) strategy by gathering artificial intelligence (AI)..

KT has unveiled its future AI transformation (AX) strategy by gathering artificial intelligence (AI), data, and network research and development (R&D) achievements together. The plan is to present an AX full stack implementation system that connects R&D results with actual services and businesses.

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06:30

Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Investments

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Jul

14th

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15:05

B2B Tag, Buy Backs, Dividend Updates

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KT (Korea Telecom) currently holds broadcasting rights for sports competitions including baseball.

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