Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press convention in the course of the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is probably not a member of Okay-pop band BTS, however the curiosity in his go to to South Korea has reached ranges one may anticipate of a world movie star.
An internet site named “Jensen Huang’s Footprints” in Korean exhibits a map and timeline of his anticipated areas and conferences over the four-day go to, which begins Friday. Meals of smoky Korean barbecue and soju consuming classes are anticipated. Huang is ready to seem on one of many nation’s hottest selection TV exhibits, “You Quiz on the Block,” and can throw the primary pitch at a Doosan Bears baseball recreation.
That agenda is not only for his amusement. Nvidia is seeking to deepen its ties with South Korea as tech provide chains come into focus given the Iran warfare, and because the firm faces rising regulatory hurdles in promoting to the mainland Chinese language market. A profitable go to by the well-regarded CEO could possibly be very useful for the corporate’s fortunes within the nation.
“Korea is a essential a part of our ecosystem,” Huang advised reporters at a dinner with South Korean tech executives on the primary day of the annual Computex commerce present in Taipei.
Look nearer, and the enterprise facet is in focus for the Koreans as effectively. The Footprints web site, which has drawn greater than 80,000 guests, shows the share-price strikes of firms which might be typically related to Nvidia. Potential meal companions embrace titans of the tech business like SK Group’s Chey Tae-won, LG Group’s Koo Kwang-mo and Naver’s Lee Hae-jin.
Even on the baseball recreation, the chairman of the Doosan conglomerate that owns the Bears is ready to affix as a batter.
CNBC compiled particulars of the anticipated assembly and meals, based mostly on reviews together with from Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest newspaper by circulation. The baseball recreation that Huang can be attending has been confirmed by the workforce, whereas the TV channel confirmed his upcoming look on the range present.
Shares of South Korea’s chip makers slipped on Friday regardless of the thrill over Huang’s go to, monitoring in a single day losses in U.S. chip shares following Broadcom‘s downbeat earnings report. Index heavyweight Samsung Electronics fell 3.98%, whereas SK Hynix dropped 7.22%.
Shares associated to pork stomach and Korean soju are combined forward of Huang’s arrival.
Agrifood chief Farmsco gaining 2.85% and conglomerate CJ CheilJedang dropping 0.60%, whereas alcoholic drinks firms HiteJinro and Lotte Chilsung dropped 3.44% and 0.19%, respectively.
