A sweeping statistic โ that 76 percent of office workers in South Korea use generative AI โ has circulated through Korean online media in recent weeks, including a graphic published by the outlet Oday in March 2026. A fact-check review that examined 12 primary sources found grounds for caution: the figure reflects documented AI use in the workplace, but it cannot be accepted as a precise, blanket measure of the Korean office workforce.
The claim spread through a graphic carried by the online outlet Oday (oday.co.kr), dated March 2026 and presented as a snapshot of generative AI adoption among office workers. Statistics packaged this way travel quickly because they compress a complicated picture โ who was surveyed, when, and what counted as "use" โ into a single topline number that is easy to share and hard to audit.
Reviewers traced the figure through 12 primary sources. Taken together, those sources support the claim only in part. Documented generative AI use among Korean office workers exists, and portions of the underlying material reflect it, but the evidence assembled does not establish that exactly 76 percent of the country's office workers are users. The topline number should therefore be treated as an approximation tied to specific survey conditions, not as a settled national measurement.
Much depends on wording. "Use" of generative AI can mean anything from a one-time trial of a chatbot to daily reliance on LLM-based tools for drafting documents, writing code, or analyzing data. "Office worker" can span everyone from conglomerate staff in Seoul to employees at small suppliers and subcontractors. Surveys that differ on those choices routinely produce different adoption rates, which is why any single percentage must be read against its methodology.
The claim that 76 percent of office workers use generative AI captures a real pattern of AI adoption in Korean workplaces, but the evidence reviewed across 12 primary sources does not support it as a precise, current statistic for the workforce as a whole โ the claim is Partly True.