SEOUL, Jan 31 (Reuters) - South Korea's information

privacy watchdog plans to ask DeepSeek about how the personal

information of users is managed, an agency official said on

Friday.

The country's Personal Information Protection Commission

will be sending a written request for information to the

operators of the Chinese artificial intelligence model soon, the

official said.

Authorities in France, Italy and Ireland and other countries

have also been looking into DeepSeek's use of personal data.