10/05/2026
XAI Land was invited to present to an MBA cohort from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) visiting Seoul this week - facilitated by the 주한미국대사관 U.S. Embassy Seoul's Public Diplomacy team.
Professor Sylvia Gross, Chair of AFIRE (Association of Foreign Investors in U.S. Real Estate) and a veteran of cross-border real estate capital markets, brought her students to Seoul for firsthand exposure to one of Asia's most complex housing markets.
We covered:
→ Korea's appraisal conflict-of-interest problem and its systemic consequences
→ How AI-based AVM infrastructure addresses fraud risk and financial exclusion
→ The regulatory tailwinds (AI Basic Act, FSC reform, gov't AVM pilot programs) accelerating institutional adoption
→ Why Korea's non-apartment housing market is where the data gap is
Grateful to the Embassy team for the platform and to Professor Gross and the class for their engagement.
South Korea's 315T KRW residential market is a genuinely interesting case study for anyone working at the intersection of real estate, AI, and financial governance.