Robot training data in South Korea

6 companies with workers here, 1 datasets collected here and 8 sourced events.

Work types

Minimum wage

• $1,512 a month, about $8.72 an hour (ILOSTAT, 2024)

Companies with workers here

Datasets collected here

• Humyn Labs physical-AI corpus 10,000 hours, 20+ countries humynlabs.ai ↗ Secondary

Events

• 2026-09-22 Korea science ministry plans physical data library from 2027
  Announced at Humanoid Summit Seoul. digitaltoday.co.kr ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-01 Korea 2027 budget funds robot training centres, data factories and a data library
  Part of 3.1 trillion won physical AI budget. shinailbo.co.kr ↗ Secondary
• 2026-08-14 LG and NVIDIA plan robot data factory on LG CNS PhysicalWorks
  On-site physical AI data factory for continuous collection and synthetic data. morningstar.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-08 LG Electronics announces robot Data Factory
  Target 100,000 hours of data by end-2026. koreatechdesk.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-07-24 Samsung plans Robot Data Factory at Gumi
  Production-line robot execution data to feed VLA training. techtimes.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-06-26 Korean data firms shift labelling to Vietnam
  Driving and robotics labelling moves to lower-cost countries. ajupress.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-05-11 Config raises $27M, scaling robot motion data in Hanoi
  Korean robot-data firm produces human motion data with about 300 workers in Seoul and Hanoi. techcrunch.com ↗ Major outlet
• 2026-01-05 Config opens a human-data factory in Hanoi
  About 300 locals collect behavioural data for physical AI. businesskorea.co.kr ↗ Secondary

On-the-ground evidence

• LG Electronics Data Factory, Yangjae R&D Campus, Seoulits new Data Factory at the Yangjae R&D Campus in Seoul will span 10,000 square meters and house several hundred robots by the end of the year.koreatechdesk.com ↗ Secondary

Every row links to its source, and hovering a link shows the quote it rests on. Research compiled 2026-10-05. Method