Mostly True
A survey response indicating that 33.9% of workers answered that AI has replaced their existing job duties has been confirmed as accurate, following a review of seven primary sources and direct retrieval of the original document backing the figure.
The statistic was not taken at face value. An initial attempt to obtain the underlying material returned only a session-gated HTML page rather than the data itself. The document was subsequently recovered through a browser-session download, allowing the 33.9% response figure to be verified against the source text. In total, seven primary sources were reviewed before the finding was cleared for publication.
The response captures how workers themselves assess AI's impact on their duties. The phrase "existing work" can refer to individual tasks absorbed by AI tools as well as broader responsibilities, so the 33.9% figure โ roughly one respondent in three โ should be read as a measure of perceived task displacement rather than a direct count of jobs eliminated. Even with that caveat, the share of workers reporting that AI has already taken over work they previously performed is a significant marker of how quickly AI adoption is being felt inside Korean workplaces, where companies from Samsung Electronics to Naver are racing to deploy AI across their operations.
On the basis of the directly retrieved document and the corroborating primary sources, the claim that 33.9% of workers responded that AI has replaced their existing work is Mostly True.
