Several government ministries in South Korea have restricted access to DeepSeek due to security concerns, aligning with similar warnings and restrictions issued by Australia and Taiwan.

South Korea's spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of "excessively" collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app's responses to questions relating to issues of national pride.

South Koreas National Intelligence Service (NIS) has raised concerns over the Chinese AI app DeepSeek, accusing it of excessively collecting user data and using all inputs for AI training. The NIS issued an official