{"id":179815,"date":"2026-01-19T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/although-investment-in-artificial-intelligence-ai-is-increasing-rapidly-only-12-of-ceos-around-t\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:05:10","slug":"although-investment-in-artificial-intelligence-ai-is-increasing-rapidly-only-12-of-ceos-around-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/although-investment-in-artificial-intelligence-ai-is-increasing-rapidly-only-12-of-ceos-around-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Although investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing rapidly, only 12% of CEOs around t.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mk.co.kr\/en\/stock\/11937819\">Although investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing rapidly, only 12% of CEOs around t..<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mk.co.kr\/en\/stock\/11937819\">https:\/\/www.mk.co.kr\/en\/stock\/11937819<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-19 23:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mk.co.kr\">www.mk.co.kr<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Utilization and Results<\/strong>: Only 12% of CEOs globally achieved both sales growth and cost reduction through AI. Most companies are still in the pilot stage of AI investment, with relatively limited widespread application.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>CEO Confidence in Sales Growth<\/strong>: Confidence in short-term sales growth among CEOs has declined, with only 30% expressing confidence over the next year compared to last year&#8217;s 38%.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Biggest Threats<\/strong>: Tariffs are seen as the biggest threat by CEOs, while cyber risks are the biggest concern for global companies among various macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical risks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tariff Concerns in Korea<\/strong>: Korean companies, particularly those with export-led structures, are highly concerned about tariff changes and perceived global protectionism, ranking second globally on tariff threat concerns after Taiwan.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Innovation and Investment Trends<\/strong>: Despite challenges, innovation is recognized as key for growth. More than 40% of CEOs have begun competing in new areas, and half plan international investment in the next year, especially in the U.S., U.K., Germany, China, and notably, India.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Call for Long-term Strategy<\/strong>: Yoon Hoon-soo, CEO of Samil PwC, advises Korean companies to focus on mid- to long-term innovation like AI competitiveness and new market development to navigate current uncertainties such as tariff pressures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing rapidly, only 12% of CEOs around t&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wimg.mk.co.kr\/news\/cms\/202601\/20\/news-p.v1.20260120.a219fee759864686b580393f1da1cd8d_P1.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-179815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179817,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179815\/revisions\/179817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}