Seoul Purpose: How NVIDIA and South Korea Are Building the Future of AI

Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world's most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world's centers of AI. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is in Seoul this week to meet the partners and builders behind that work.

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Monday, June 8, 10:00 a.m. PT

From Industrial Leadership to Gaming and AI: Go Korea!

Thank you for your friendship. Thank you for your partnership. Go Korea! NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said, addressing a reception that brought together roughly 200 partners from every part of the Korea AI ecosystem, corresponding to the five layer cake.

I'm very happy to be here with all of you. This is Korea's ecosystem, Huang said. This is the industrial base. This is the venture investors. This is the young entrepreneurs. We brought them all together. Frankly, next year I hope to see this be 10 times larger - not two times larger, 10 times larger.

Hosted at the Young Bin Gwan at The Shilla Seoul, the gathering rounded out Huang's trip, which spotlighted Korea's place at the intersection of gaming, industry and AI, and the many partnerships shaping what comes next.

Off of a series of surprise visits to PC bangs and the announcement a week earlier of NVIDIA RTX Spark - a new superchip reinventing Windows PCs - Huang kicked off remarks on gaming and esports, tracing NVIDIA's origins and Korea's tech roots back to its earliest bet on computer graphics.

Almost all great technology started out as toys, he said. And we realized that computer games were complicated, because they were trying to reproduce reality. Reproducing reality requires extraordinary algorithms, extraordinary computing technology. And we dreamed from that beginning, we could someday be one of the world's most important technology companies. That was our dream. That was 33 years ago.

That dream has revolutionized the gaming industry, Huang said. It transformed an entire generation. It made video games something fun into something worthy to endeavor, to be great at. Now, Korea is the world leader in esports.

Huang described Korea also as a world-class leader in heavy industries - and now in AI.

Now we're sitting in a country where you are world-class at manufacturing, world-class at electronics, world-class at software - and you are now world-class at AI.

The gathering capped off a week of meetings with partners - including LG Group, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, Naver and Doosan - expanding collaborations that support the nation's AI infrastructure and setting the stage for advancements in agentic AI, physical AI and beyond.

You have everything that it takes, he told the cheering crowd. We are here to partner with you. I'm here to partner with you.

Monday, June 8, 12:00 a.m. PT

Building AI Factories at Gigawatt Scale in Korea

NAVER is building a full-stack NVIDIA AI factory in Korea with NVIDIA DSX.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang met with NAVER founder and chairman Haejin Lee while in Korea as NAVER plans to expand its GAK Sejong AI data center to 55 megawatts and beyond to gigawatt scale.

As useful AI increasingly moves to production, AI factories are becoming critical infrastructure for training, post-training and inference. Built with the NVIDIA DSX platform with NVIDIA accelerated computing, NAVER's AI factories will give Korea a sovereign foundation to create intelligence for enterprises, manufacturers, government organizations and AI cloud customers.

NAVER is also the first Korean company to participate in the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning to accelerate global AI innovation. It plans to launch an AI Agent Platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints.

Sunday, June 7, 11:00 p.m. PT

NVIDIA and Hyundai Motor Group

AI is changing how vehicles, factories and robots are built.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang met with Hyundai Motor Group leadership to discuss NVIDIA and HMG's work across mobility and physical AI.

Sunday, June 7, 9:00 p.m. PT

Build-a-Claw at Seoul National University

The next generation of AI builders brought the energy.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang stopped by Seoul National University for a Build-a-Claw pop-up, packed with students, developers and AI researchers building intelligent agents from the ground up.

The entire industry, the entire world is changing. Everyone is in the same starting line just like you, Huang told the crowd. It's a great opportunity for you to shape this technology, to apply this technology. It's brand new technology, so you are the expert.

Sunday, June 7, 8:00 p.m. PT

NVIDIA and LG Expand Collaboration

Today, NVIDIA and LG Group announced plans to build an AI factory to support LG's robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang met with LG Group chairman Koo Kwang-mo while in Korea as the companies expand their AI collaboration.

The combination of LG's production technology data and know-how from global manufacturing sites with NVIDIA's AI infrastructure and digital twin technologies will help enhance AI-driven manufacturing AI competitiveness. The two companies will collaborate to build an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem in which the entire process - from raw material procurement to production, logistics and customer delivery - is connected in real time through data and AI, and establish it as a new global smart factory standard.

Sunday, June 7, 7:30 p.m. PT

NVIDIA and SK Partnership

Speaking with reporters in Seoul, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won outlined an expanded

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