{"id":6142,"date":"2026-05-06T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/6142\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:24:10","slug":"sk-telecom-appoints-jeong-jae-heon-as-ceo-to-strengthen-ai-governance-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/6142\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Telecom Appoints Jeong Jae-heon as CEO to Strengthen AI Governance &#038; Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSK Telecom announced on the 30th that it has appointed Jaeheon Jeong, President of External Cooperation, as its new CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tNew CEO Jaeheon Jeong, a lawyer by training, joined SKT in 2020 as Head of the Legal Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAs a founding member of SK Square in 2021, he served as Head of the Investment Support Center and oversaw key company departments, including strategy, legal affairs, and finance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inarticlemodule\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3O6vm9O\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"k2_lazy k2_lazy_small\" data-loaded=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026_campaign_1_728.jpg\" src-small=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8,%3csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 728 90\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Comarch\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"k2_lazy k2_lazy_small\" data-loaded=\"false\" src-small=\"\/img\/images\/Comarch\/2026_campaign_1\/2026_campaign_1_150.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8,%3csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 300 150\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Comarch\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSince 2024, he has been in charge of ESG, CR, and PR functions as the President of External Cooperation at SKT, and has also served as the Governance Committee Chairman of the SUPEX Pursuit Council, the highest decision-making body of SK Group, and has been responsible for advancing the group-wide management system.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tCEO Jeong was evaluated as the right person to lead SKT&#8217;s AI and telecommunications businesses by establishing AI governance at SKT, which concretizes AI pursuit values and codes of conduct to ensure the reliability and safety of AI technology, and by leading efforts to restore customer trust and strengthen information protection systems related to cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tCEO Jeong is a professional manager with a legal background who has extensive experience in public service and has held key positions within the group, including as the Chairman of the Governance Committee of the SUPEX Pursuit Council, Head of the Investment Support Center at SK Square, and President of External Cooperation at SKT. He is expected to focus on solidifying the organization&#8217;s fundamentals and restoring internal and external trust based on fundamentals and principles.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tBy connecting AI infrastructure, services, and data governance, we anticipate establishing stable leadership in systematically advancing into a global AI company.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSKT also appointed SK Square CEO Han Myung-jin as the new head of its newly launched communications CIC (Corporate Information Center).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tDuring his tenure at SK Square, CIC Chairman Han is credited with significantly increasing the company&#8217;s corporate value through portfolio rebalancing and profitability improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; SK Telecom announced on the 30th that it has appointed Jaeheon Jeong, President of External Cooperation, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5032,5033,241,676],"class_list":["post-6142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-square","tag-ai-governance","tag-cyber-security","tag-sk","tag-sk-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}