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Korean AI Firms Give Agents Job Titles in 'AI-Native' Push

Korean AI companies are assigning ranks and email accounts to AI agents, and Konan Technology says one agent cut planned task time by about 59%.

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Korean AI companies are giving AI agents formal job ranks and duties, and lowering the barrier to development across departments, in a shift toward what the industry calls the "AI-native organization."

Konan Technology recently introduced an AI digital employee named "Bong Daeri" (roughly "Assistant Manager Bong"). The agent automates company-wide tasks and has been given an assistant-manager rank and an internal email account. Connected to the project management system and Jira, it handles scheduling, meeting-room booking and leave requests. Konan says its company-wide AI transformation, under way since early this year, cut the time spent against plan on 60 internal tasks by about 59% as of October.

Orchestrators and in-house tools

Internal AI orchestrators, which direct and manage several agents, are also appearing. MakinaRocks built an HR platform called "Command Center" in which five AI agents work together: AI staff officers handle recruiting, scheduling and personnel management, while an AI company commander compiles and reports the results. Manager Kim Hyung-chan, who developed it, said the platform took about a day to build and lets him focus on other work while the agents run meetings and manage schedules and email.

Other firms are spreading the approach in different ways. At Liner, the number of Slack channels employees take part in grew by up to twofold after an internal data-analysis agent was introduced. Channel Corporation put an AI phone agent, "Voice Alf," in its office cafe to take orders, while the barista manages orders through a kiosk app built by vibe coding. Nota and Crowdworks held company-wide hackathons open to all job types, and Crowdworks employees won with a vibe-coded prototype of an AI skills assessment service.

Changing how work is organized

The model points toward AI collecting and analyzing information while employees supervise several agents and focus on decisions and planning. Konan COO Yang Seung-hyun said the company will widen Bong Daeri's remit and move simple, repetitive work to agents so staff can concentrate on strategy.

Yoon Seok-bin, a professor at Sogang University's graduate school of AI and software, said AI-native organizations differ from traditional ones because they redesign structure and human-AI collaboration around productivity. He added that AI orchestrators are spreading not only in Korea but also in the United States and China.

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