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South Korea's three mobile carriers — SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus — have issued a joint declaration committing to treat personal data protection as their foremost management value in the AI era, according to reporting and imagery carried by News1, Ajunews and Yonhap on September 28, 2026.
The joint declaration centers on the carriers' promise to prioritize personal information protection as the industry enters an era in which AI-driven services collect and process growing volumes of user data. The three companies framed the commitment as a shared management principle rather than a one-off marketing gesture.
The announcement was documented through photographs published by News1, Ajunews and Yonhap, which show the joint declaration event. The full downloadable document was not retrieved due to a browser download trigger error — a technical issue, not an access block — and the substance of the declaration was confirmed through the web-published body text.
The declaration aligns the carriers with government attention to privacy in AI adoption, given the involvement of bodies such as the Ministry of Science and ICT, the National Intelligence Service and the Fair Trade Commission in the broader regulatory landscape. However, the available materials do not specify which officials attended the event or whether any regulator formally endorsed the declaration.
Details such as concrete implementation measures, timelines and enforcement mechanisms were not included in the source material reviewed, and remain unconfirmed.
The claim that the three carriers jointly declared personal information protection their top management value in the AI era is True.