Seoul becomes Anthropic’s third office in Asia-Pacific as we continue our international growth (www.anthropic.com)

Anthropic announced it will open a Seoul office in early 2026, its third location in Asia‑Pacific after Tokyo and Bengaluru, citing explosive regional growth—run‑rate revenue in APAC is up more than 10x in the past year and large business accounts (>$100k run‑rate) have grown 8x. The move aligns with Korea’s national AI ambitions and Anthropic’s efforts to deepen partnerships with government, research institutions and industry while hiring a local team to support Korea’s unique technical and commercial needs. The announcement underscores Korea’s heavy adoption of Claude: Korean users rank in the global top five for total and per‑capita usage, Claude Code weekly active users in Korea rose 6x in four months, and over a quarter of Claude Code users are in APAC. Anthropic highlights concrete enterprise deployments—Law&Company’s Claude‑powered legal assistant nearly doubled lawyer efficiency, and SK Telecom built a custom Claude customer‑service model that became an industry blueprint—showing Claude’s application for coding, enterprise customization and high‑accuracy domains. Anthropic frames the expansion as a way to accelerate responsible, locally supported AI deployment—combining “frontier capabilities” with safety safeguards to scale advanced models in Korea’s world‑class technical ecosystem.