Nvidia's Jensen Huang Begins 4-Day South Korea Tour as 80,000 Track Celebrity-Style Visit
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Updated · CNBC · Jun 5
Nvidia's Jensen Huang Begins 4-Day South Korea Tour as 80,000 Track Celebrity-Style Visit
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Jun 5
Summary
Jensen Huang starts a four-day South Korea visit on Friday, with appearances on a top TV variety show and at a Doosan Bears baseball game underscoring unusually intense public attention.
More than 80,000 people have visited a Korean-language site mapping his expected movements, while planned dinners with leaders from SK, LG and Naver highlight Nvidia's push to deepen local ties.
Nvidia is courting South Korea as supply chains face fresh scrutiny from the Iran war and as tougher regulations complicate sales into mainland China.
Samsung Electronics fell 3.98% and SK Hynix dropped 7.22% on Friday, with local chip stocks tracking overnight U.S. semiconductor losses after Broadcom's weak earnings outlook.