{"id":257404,"date":"2025-11-02T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257404\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:58:08","slug":"why-did-jensen-huangs-chimaek-summit-omit-the-chair-of-nvidias-no-1-korean-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257404\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Jensen Huang\u2019s \u2018chimaek summit\u2019 omit the chair of Nvidia\u2019s No 1 Korean supplier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/nvidia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nvidia<\/a>\u2019s CEO Jensen Huang arrived in South Korea, global attention turned to a viral \u201cchimaek\u201d (fried chicken and beer) dinner on October 30, featuring Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/hyundai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hyundai Group\u2019s<\/a> Executive Chair Chung Eui-sun.Yet, the spotlight shifted the following day to SK Group, particularly its memory arm, SK Hynix, which co-headlined a landmark <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) infrastructure deal that analysts have called a strategic win.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The question hanging over the spontaneous Gangnam gathering was straightforward: why was SK Hynix, Nvidia\u2019s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI chips, conspicuously absent?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The absence of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won from the headline-grabbing \u201cchimaek summit\u201d was less a diplomatic slight than a matter of logistics and timing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK-Hynix and chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, during a seminar on carbon neutrality and energy policies at the headquarters of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul on September 14, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/58b804e7-845a-4e63-9ab0-bde67736f540_7370c224.jpg\" title=\"Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK-Hynix and chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, during a seminar on carbon neutrality and energy policies at the headquarters of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul on September 14, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE\"\/>Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK-Hynix and chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, during a seminar on carbon neutrality and energy policies at the headquarters of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul on September 14, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sources familiar with the matter said the dinner was never meant to be a formal \u201cKorea Inc.\u201d meeting. Huang himself described it as simply wanting to \u201ceat chimaek with friends\u201d, not hold a press conference, and the informal venue could accommodate only a small circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Nvidia\u2019s CEO Jensen Huang arrived in South Korea, global attention turned to a viral \u201cchimaek\u201d (fried chicken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[256,132073,64,63,99,151760,151763,151764,151217,145379,96539,7030,943,151761,2291,1047,151762,19838],"class_list":{"0":"post-257404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-apec","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-chey-tae-won","14":"tag-chimaek","15":"tag-chung-eui-sun","16":"tag-gangnam","17":"tag-gyeongju","18":"tag-hyundai","19":"tag-jensen-huang","20":"tag-korea","21":"tag-lee-jae-yong","22":"tag-nvidia","23":"tag-samsung","24":"tag-sk-group","25":"tag-sk-hynix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}