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Who Owns the AI Productivity Dividend in Korea's Software Market?
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Fusion42 · 18 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
Korea's software market faces challenges in pricing AI-driven productivity gains as traditional man-month pricing models become inadequate when AI increases individual engineer output. Mixed pricing approaches coexist, but AI's uneven productivity improvements across industries force a reevaluation of how software projects are valued and compensated.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Enterprise Software.
◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway
You must rethink how you price software projects as AI outputs decouple value from labour hours, making traditional man-month contracts obsolete. The uneven AI productivity gains across sectors mean a one-size-fits-all pricing model will miss value and risk margin loss.
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