Tencent Cloud sees Korea as benchmark for AI, gaming

Tencent Cloud is stepping up its push in South Korea, betting on the country's strengths in gaming, media and enterprise technology as local companies increasingly use artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure to expand overseas.

"Korea is one of the benchmark markets for Tencent Cloud in Asia-Pacific," Nucky Fang, general manager of Tencent Cloud International, told The Korea Herald in Seoul on Monday.

"I see it less as one side serving a role for the other and more as a partnership wher ...