For Nvidia CEO, South Korea is where story keeps turning SEOUL, June 8 (AJP) - In the early 2000s, as the story goes, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang walked the cramped aisles of Seoul's Yongsan electronics market himself, a then-obscure chip merchant doling out his business cards, courting the distributors who might stock his graphics cards. Just last weekend, he returned to the gaming world that first bought what he was selling — this time as the most courted man in artificial intelligence. The Nvidia CEO made his way to a PC parlo June 8, 2026

US House panel passes defense bill provision barring foreign construction of Navy warships SEOUL, June 08 (AJP) - A U.S. House committee has approved a provision in the fiscal 2027 defense policy bill that would prohibit the Navy from using funds to build warships at foreign shipyards, a move that could complicate Washington’s recent push to tap allied shipbuilding capacity, including South Korean yards. Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine, said in a press release on Friday that the House Armed Services Committee had adopted his amendment to the fiscal 2027 Nat June 8, 2026

Aei Robot taps Nvidia tools to cut humanoid training costs SEOUL, June 08 (AJP) - South Korean humanoid robot developer Aei Robot announced it has reached a key milestone in bipedal robot development by harnessing Nvidia's motion-generation and inverse-kinematics tools, sharply lowering the cost of gathering the training data that machines need to learn human tasks. The announcement came as Aei Robot prepared to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang later Monday, the final day of his four-day South Korea trip, during which the chip giant has cou June 8, 2026

Seoul, Tokyo hold first rescue drill in 9 years SEOUL, June 08 (AJP) - South Korea and Japan held a bilateral search and rescue exercise in international waters southeast of Jeju Island on Sunday, marking the first such drill between the two countries in nine years amid efforts to rebuild defense ties. The maritime exercise, known as SAREX, is designed to rehearse joint procedures for responding to maritime emergencies involving distressed vessels and was held for the first time since December 2017. The South Korean Navy deplo June 8, 2026

Nvidia, Doosan to collaborate on physical AI, data center infrastructure SEOUL, June 08 (AJP) - Nvidia and South Korea's Doosan Group announced they will expand their partnership across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, the latest in a string of deals struck during CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Seoul. The collaboration spans four Doosan units — Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerbility and Doosan Corporation Electro-Materials BG — pairing Nvidia's accelerated computing platforms with the conglomerate's June 8, 2026

Nvidia deepens South Korea push with Naver, SK hynix pacts SEOUL, June 08 (AJP) - Nvidia tightened its grip on South Korea's artificial intelligence buildout, unveiling parallel partnerships with Naver to construct a gigawatt-scale AI factory and with SK hynix to co-develop next-generation memory for its computing platforms. The dual announcements made Monday, timed to CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Seoul, underscore how the chip giant is weaving itself into the country's two pillars of the AI economy: hyperscale infrastructure and June 8, 2026

Nvidia's Huang, SK's Chey solidify AI partnership over chicken and 'somaek' in Seoul SEOUL, June 07 (AJP) - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won (Tony Chey) held a highly public, casual dinner meeting over fried chicken and beer in Seoul on Sunday, a gathering that highlighted the close ties between the AI chip giant and the world's leading high-bandwidth memory (HBM) maker. Arriving at a Kkanbu Chicken branch in southern Seoul's Gangnam district at 6:46 p.m., Huang wore a Doosan Bears baseball uniform—having just thrown the cer June 7, 2026

Seoul, Ottawa hold joint naval drills off Canadian coast SEOUL, June 06 (AJP) - The South Korean and Canadian navies conducted joint maritime drills off Canada’s western coast from June 3 to 4, involving submarines, warships, and maritime aircraft from both countries, the South Korean Navy said Saturday. The exercises involved the South Korean Navy’s 3,000-ton Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine, the 3,100-ton frigate Daejeon and an AW-159 maritime helicopter. Canada deployed the 2,200-ton submarine Corner Brook, the 4,000-ton fri June 6, 2026

Seoul stands firm on building nuclear submarines domestically SEOUL, June 05 (AJP) - South Korea’s presidential office said Friday there has been no major change to plans to build nuclear-powered submarines domestically, as Seoul and Washington seek to make tangible progress in related talks by the end of the year. A senior presidential official told reporters that South Korea and the U.S. held productive discussions on nuclear-powered submarines, uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing. “Representatives from various sect June 5, 2026

South Korea pushes hydrogen trucks in final pitch for Canada's submarine race SEOUL, June 5 (AJP) - South Korea has proposed a multibillion-dollar hydrogen truck project in Canada as part of its final push to win Ottawa's next-generation submarine contract, turning an earlier request for automotive investment into a broader industrial package centered on hydrogen mobility, local manufacturing and jobs. The proposal, code-named "Project Beaver," was disclosed by Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik in an interview with Canada's CTV News, June 5, 2026