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South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads

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DeepSeek became hugely popular in South Korea with over a million weekly users.

The AI model will become available again to South Korean users when "improvements and remedies" are made to ensure it complies with the country's personal data protection laws.

South Korean government agencies have banned their employees from downloading the chatbot to their work devices.