SK Telecom, a publicly owned company headquartered in South Korea, was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 7,530 individuals. The company reported $12.0B in revenue as of 2025. Functioning primarily as a telecoms provider, SK Telecom is a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator and former film distributor, and is part of the SK Group. The company has historically led the local market with a 50.5 percent share as of 2008 and is the largest wireless carrier in South Korea, serving 27.019 million subscribers as of Q4 2017.
On July 5, SK Telecom announced a plan to construct AI data center capacity of up to 15GW, aiming to establish South Korea as a primary AI infrastructure hub in Asia and meet rising demand for AI model training, inference, and high-performance computing. Earlier on July 9, the company, along with other major telecom companies, anticipated varied second-quarter earnings, influenced by differing cost structures and unique circumstances ahead of a broader push into artificial intelligence investments in the latter half of the year. Also on July 9, SK Telecom and Japan's SoftBank partnered with the Center for Social value Enhancement Studies (CSES) to develop a global standard for measuring social value in the era of artificial intelligence.
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