South Korea's AI Basic Act gave the country a governance framework before it had a governing coalition. The problem that has emerged is not that the framework is wrong — it is that no single institution owns the consequences of its failure. The Ministry of Trade wants aggressive infrastructure investment; the Ministry of Finance will not fund it without terms the energy sector rejects. The education authority that should be producing AI talent vetoed Seoul National University's cross-disciplinary AI curriculum on procedural grounds while the government simultaneously convened [more than…