By AFP News
Publication Date: 2026-06-05 13:45:00
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang arrived in Seoul Friday for a packed schedule of meetings with tech leaders, promising “some surprises” for South Korea while predicting robotics will be the country’s next major growth sector.
The visit comes about seven months after Huang’s last trip to South Korea, when he pledged to supply the government and major firms including Samsung Electronics, SK Group and Naver with around 260,000 advanced chips for physical and agentic artificial intelligence.
“I have brought a lot of business to Korea. I have some surprises,” he said after landing at Gimpo International Airport, declining to elaborate or “it would not be a surprise”.
Huang said robotics would be the “next major sector here in South Korea”, and that the country is “extraordinary at manufacturing, mechatronics, and also artificial intelligence”.
“The fusion of all of that technology is perfect robotics.”
He then visited a gaming cafe run by South Korean esports organisation T1, where he met star gamer Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok as excited fans gathered and filmed them.
Nvidia helped popularise graphics processing units (GPUs) in the late 1990s, laying the foundation for modern high-performance gaming.
Huang described South Korea as an ideal market for esports, saying the country’s gamers had chosen the best…
