{"id":977,"date":"2026-06-04T13:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:12:11","slug":"nvidia-ceo-mounts-charm-push-in-south-korea-with-tv-talk-show-baseball-appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO mounts charm push in South Korea with TV talk show, baseball appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<li>Companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>SEOUL, June 4 (Reuters) &#8211; When Nvidia (NVDA.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> CEO Jensen Huang makes his second \u200bvisit to South Korea in just seven months this week, it won&#8217;t be only to meet top memory chip and \u200crobotics executives, but to throw the first pitch at a baseball game and appear on a TV talk show.<\/div>\n<div>While a celebrity in his own right, the charm push by the Taiwan-born 63-year-old highlights South Korea&#8217;s critical position in the AI landscape. Samsung Electronics (005930.KS)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> and SK Hynix (000660.KS)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> between them make about 70% of the memory needed for \u200bAI chips like Nvidia&#8217;s. And the country&#8217;s strength in manufacturing and robotics sets it up to be a key player in \u200bphysical AI, where AI is embedded in robots, cars and factories.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Nvidia&#8217;s dependence on South Korean suppliers is rising,&#8221; Jeff \u2060Kim, an analyst at Seoul-based KB Securities, wrote in a research note.<\/div>\n<div>Huang &#8220;needs a manufacturing site for physical AI,&#8221; Kim said. &#8220;South Korea is emerging \u200bas a perfect testbed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Asia&#8217;s fourth-largest economy is also a major Nvidia customer, with the Silicon Valley-based company announcing in October that it would supply more than \u200b260,000 of its most advanced AI chips to the government and some of the country&#8217;s biggest businesses.<\/div>\n<div>Analysts and investors say South Korea&#8217;s importance has been magnified after trade frictions spoiled sales of the most-advanced semiconductors to China.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;South Korean companies are running high-end factories, which need a lot of these kinds of chips,&#8221; said Seung-yub Lee, a \u200bfund manager at Seoul-based Quad Investment Management.<\/div>\n<div>President Lee Jae Myung has vowed to make AI investment a top policy priority, aiming to turn South Korea \u200binto one of the world&#8217;s top three AI powers amid a broader push to counter the economic impact of a shrinking population.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Korea is a critical part of \u200cour \u2060ecosystem,&#8221; Huang told reporters at a dinner with South Korean tech executives on Monday in Taipei, the first day of the annual, industry-defining Computex trade show.<\/div>\n<div>He highlighted robotics when asked where Nvidia could invest, because &#8220;Korea is a manufacturing country, and Korea has a population limit.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We have a lot to do together,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div>Huang&#8217;s plans clearly include courting the country&#8217;s 50 million-strong population.<\/div>\n<div>He will appear on one of South Korea&#8217;s most popular talk shows, &#8220;You Quiz on \u200bthe Block&#8221;, which its production company, \u200bCJ ENM , likens to the Jimmy \u2060Fallon Show in the U.S.<\/div>\n<div>And he will don a Doosan Bears jersey to throw the first pitch at Sunday&#8217;s home game against the Kiwoom Heroes, with Doosan Group Chairman Park Jeong-won acting as the ceremonial first \u200bbatter. Arms of chaebol Doosan develop robots and make materials used in Nvidia&#8217;s Blackwell chips.<\/div>\n<div>Park Ju-gun, head of \u200bcorporate analysis firm \u2060Leaders Index, said Huang learned a lesson from his visit in October, when a meeting over chicken and beer with the chiefs of Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor (005380.KS)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> at a Kkanbu Chicken outlet generated a big media buzz.<\/div>\n<div>Huang was coy when asked by Reuters which South Korean executives he would meet this \u2060time, but \u200bfood will again be a feature.<\/div>\n<div>According to local media, he may have a Korean \u200bbarbecue dinner in Seoul&#8217;s trendy Sungsu area with executives from SK Group, Hyundai Motor and LG Group.<\/div>\n<div>Reuters has reported likely meetings with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and executives at South \u200bKorea&#8217;s top online platform, Naver (035420.KS)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=975\">SpaceX sets $135 price for blockbuster IPO, upending Wall Street convention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=973\">Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author of graphic novel \u2018Persepolis\u2019, dies aged 56<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=970\">Putin faces rival visions of war and peace at Russia\u2019s \u2018Davos\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts and investors say South Korea&#8217;s importance has been magnified after trade frictions spoiled sales of the most-advanced semiconductors to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,118],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-asia-pacific","tag-software-defined-vehicle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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