Seoul Women's University is establishing a personal data protection graduate department with 25 companies, supported by a Chung-Ang University-Seoul Women's University consortium selected by South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission and the Korea Internet & Security Agency. The consortium will receive 9.12 billion won in research funding over five years, with the university planning to admit its first cohort in the spring semester next year. Participating companies include LG Uplus, EY Han Young, Toss and Saltlux. LG Uplus will research secure personal-information use in large-scale user environments, while Toss will work on financial-data processing and regulatory-compliance governance. LG Uplus has indicated it intends to recruit master's and doctoral graduates, and Toss has previously hired information-security graduate students as interns. Chung-Ang University will guarantee employment at LIG D&A, LG CNS, LG Uplus or Doosan Digital Innovation BU for seven students admitted through a new industrial-security track. KT is pursuing a retraining-focused information-security master's program with Seoul National University. The initiatives respond to a shortage affecting 23% of domestic companies after major breaches at South Korea's telecom carriers, Coupang and Lotte Card. Rising AI-related security risks and record ICT export growth are reinforcing expectations of sustained demand for specialists.