I was recently sitting in a quiet, solar-powered co-working space in Stockholm, watching a developer struggle to secure a single hour of compute time on a local cluster, while my phone buzzed with news from Seoul about "AI Factories" being built to house hundreds of thousands of chips. It’s a strange, polarized world we live in; while Sweden meticulously polishes its surgical-grade research tools, Korea is essentially trying to build a digital sun. I couldn't help but wonder if the frantic energy of a "Fast-Track PhD" in Korea feels more like a marathon or a sprint, especially when compared to the steady, "reskilling" pace of the Swedish workforce. Both nations are staring down a massive shortage of brains to run these machines, but their strategies are as different as a quiet forest and a neon-lit metropolis. South Korea vs. Sweden: Two Paths to Solving the AI Talent Crisis The Hardware Divide: 260,000 vs. 2,000 GPUs The most visible difference betwee...