Associate Dean Daryl Lim discusses Korea’s AI future

CARLISLE, PA—Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and associate dean for research and strategic partnerships at Penn State Dickinson Law, appeared on Morning Wave in Busan to discuss why global AI companies are increasingly turning to Korea. The interview aired on BeFM, Busan’s English-language radio station, on June 15, 2026. You can listen to the interview by clicking here.

Lim explained that Korea is moving from being an artificial intelligence (AI) adopter to becoming an AI builder, with strengths in multiple relevant industries, including semiconductors, digital platforms, batteries, telecom, robotics, and advanced manufacturing. He connected the discussion to his scholarship and teaching on AI governance, competition, innovation, and technology policy, emphasizing that the next phase of AI will depend not only on models but also on the infrastructure and industrial ecosystems needed to deploy AI safely and at scale.

Morning Wave in Busan is an English-language current affairs and culture program produced by BeFM, Busan English Broadcasting. The interview focused on Korea’s strategic role in the global AI economy, including the different priorities of NVIDIA and OpenAI, the rise of AI data centers and AI factories, sovereign and Korean-language AI, physical AI, robotics, and the growing importance of energy and infrastructure. Lim noted that Korea’s combination of hardware strength, local digital platforms, and industrial depth makes it one of the few countries positioned to help build across the full AI stack.

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Partnerships and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance.

In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.