{"id":4373,"date":"2025-11-26T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/2025\/11\/26\/from-government-to-gaming-ai-is-strengthening-koreas-digital-foundation-nvidia-leader-says-at-ai-day-seoul\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:39:44","slug":"from-government-to-gaming-ai-is-strengthening-koreas-digital-foundation-nvidia-leader-says-at-ai-day-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/2025\/11\/26\/from-government-to-gaming-ai-is-strengthening-koreas-digital-foundation-nvidia-leader-says-at-ai-day-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"From Government to Gaming, AI Is \u2018Strengthening Korea\u2019s Digital Foundation,\u2019 NVIDIA Leader Says at AI Day Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><!-- OneTrust Cookies Consent Notice start for nvidia.com --><\/p>\n<p><!-- OneTrust Cookies Consent Notice end for nvidia.com --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ --><br \/>\n\t<title>From Government to Gaming, AI Is \u2018Strengthening Korea\u2019s Digital Foundation,\u2019 NVIDIA Leader Says at AI Day Seoul | NVIDIA Blog<\/title><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Stream WordPress user activity plugin v4.1.1 --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Hotjar Tracking Code for NVIDIA --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/content\/dam\/1x1-00000000.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"country_code\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"page\" class=\"hfeed site\">\n\t<a class=\"skip-link screen-reader-text\" href=\"#content\">Skip to content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- #masthead --><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__sections\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p><i>Editor\u2019s note: This post is part of a blog series highlighting <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/tag\/ai-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>NVIDIA AI Days<\/i><\/a><i> across the globe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Following packed events in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/ai-day-ho-chi-minh-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ho Chi Minh City<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/ai-day-tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tokyo<\/a> last month, the tour of NVIDIA AI Days \u2014 bringing together AI enthusiasts, developers, researchers and startups in different pockets of the world \u2014 made its latest stop in Seoul, South Korea. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/check-in-counter.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAttendees check in at NVIDIA AI Day Seoul.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>Last week, more than 1,000 attendees joined NVIDIA AI Day Seoul to learn about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/what-is-sovereign-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sovereign AI<\/a> \u2014 including breakout sessions on agentic and physical AI, hands-on workshops and a startup reception for members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/startups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NVIDIA Inception<\/a> program, all offering insights into the current and future landscape of the AI ecosystem in Korea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andy Lee, Inception program manager at NVIDIA, gave opening remarks at the Inception and Venture Capital reception, highlighting this year\u2019s Inception Grand Challenge in Korea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Five of 100 Korean startups that applied to the challenge advanced to the finals at AI Day Seoul, where the winning team received an award from the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups. All five finalists were recognized with certificates from NVIDIA for reflecting the momentum of Korea\u2019s AI startup community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__full-width-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/andy-lee-welcome-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAndy Lee, Inception program manager at NVIDIA, welcomes attendees to the Inception and VC reception at AI Day Seoul.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled to be named a finalist for the Inception Grand Challenge, providing an opportunity to share the successful collaboration forged with the NVIDIA technical teams,\u201d said Jaeho Oh, CEO of NVIDIA Inception member PYLER. \u201cThe strong support from the Inception program enabled us to become the first in South Korea to adopt an NVIDIA DGX B200 system, as we continue to advance our globally leading, safe and reliable video understanding AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<h2 class=\"full-width-layout__heading\">Why It Matters<\/h2>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>The latest AI trends in Korea showcase how the technology is <a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/south-korea-ai-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">driving advancements across robotics, industrial manufacturing and government<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Major Korean conglomerates like Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group and NAVER Cloud are engaged in deep AI integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the public sector, AI is already helping process documents, policies and regulatory information at scale, enabling citizens to receive the answers they need instantly,\u201d said Shilpa Kolhatkar, global head of AI nations at NVIDIA. \u201cAdoption is also accelerating across AI avatars, speech recognition technologies, gaming, music and the K-pop industry \u2014 innovations that together are strengthening Korea\u2019s digital foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The numbers help showcase Korea\u2019s expanding AI ecosystem:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/infographic-ai-day-seoul-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"Infographic that says there are 700+ NVIDIA Inception startups in Korea, 11 Korean sovereign LLM projects, 332,000 developers in Korea using NVIDIA technologies, 49,000 NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute enrollments in Korea and 13 supercomputers operating in Korea.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<h2 class=\"full-width-layout__heading\">Event Highlights<\/h2>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>In addition to four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute<\/a> training sessions, the event featured breakout sessions by topic. And at the NVIDIA Inception reception, Korean AI startups and venture capital firms came together to connect and collaborate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__full-width-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dli-training-workshop-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAn NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute workshop at AI Day Seoul.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>At an \u201cAsk the NVIDIA Tech Experts\u201d area, specialists from across AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, large language models (LLMs), robotics and automotive connected with Korean developers for Q&amp;As about real-world technological challenges and solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/connect-with-experts-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tThe \u201cAsk the NVIDIA Tech Experts\u201d area at AI Day Seoul.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>\u201cThe best part of AI Day Seoul was definitely coming to the Q&amp;A counter to directly ask questions and communicate with NVIDIA technical experts,\u201d said Useong Kim, principal engineer at Samsung Electronics. \u201cIt\u2019s invaluable to ask what you\u2019re curious about and get immediate feedback. I strongly felt the value of in-person communication beyond just absorbing online information, and I received a lot of practical help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ankit Patel, senior director of developer marketing at NVIDIA, presented an all-conference session that explored agentic AI through the lens of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/ai-scaling-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scaling laws<\/a>. He emphasized that reasoning models \u2014 the foundation of intelligent decision-making \u2014 are at the heart of the latest generation of AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ankit-agentic-ai-session-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAnkit Patel, senior director of developer marketing at NVIDIA, discusses NVIDIA open models, data and libraries at AI Day Seoul.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>In addition to Patel\u2019s talk, all-conference plenary sessions featured Marc Hamilton, vice president of global solutions architecture and engineering at NVIDIA, who discussed how AI factories are converging with physical AI.<\/p>\n<p>And Kolhatkar shared how Korea is building sovereign AI models and modern AI factories tailored to national priorities through government initiatives and global partnerships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shilpa-session-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tShilpa Kolhatkar, global head of AI nations at NVIDIA, presents at AI Day Seoul.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<h2 class=\"full-width-layout__heading\">Industry in Motion<\/h2>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>Korea-based NVIDIA partners are helping fuel the next industrial revolution driven by AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo build technological sovereignty and a sustainable AI foundation for the era of sovereign AI, NAVER Cloud is deepening its collaboration with NVIDIA \u2014 from GPU infrastructure to AI models and agent technologies,\u201d said Yong-Jae Kwak, chief technology officer at NAVER Cloud, at AI Day Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>At the event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NAVER Cloud presented on its development of an agentic AI system, detailing the process of deriving optimization insights using the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/nemo-agent-toolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>LG AI Research showcased advanced LLM training using the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.nvidia.com\/nemo-framework\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NVIDIA NeMo framework<\/a>, tapping into FP8 training recipes to achieve over 20% faster training and applying reasoning-aligned techniques to enhance reasoning performance to reach new levels of training efficiency.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Coupang Intelligent Cloud discussed how it is building Coupang\u2019s AI factory \u2014 built with NVIDIA DGX systems based on the NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell architectures \u2014 which will deliver AI-powered solutions for demand forecasting, logistics route optimization, ad personalization and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/naver-cloud-session.jpeg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tKweonwoo Jung, senior machine learning engineer at NAVER Cloud, presents on AI agents within the NAVER ecosystem.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<h2 class=\"full-width-layout__heading\">What\u2019s Next<\/h2>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/south-korea-ai-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Announced at the APEC Summit last month<\/a>, Korean developers across enterprises, startups and research institutes will soon be equipped to harness the power of 260,000 GPUs with NVIDIA\u2019s full stack of accelerated libraries and software development kits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNVIDIA AI Day was a meaningful opportunity for Korean companies and startups to see cutting-edge AI technologies up close and explore new possibilities for collaboration,\u201d said Kyungwon Cho, director of the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups. \u201cThe 260,000-GPU AI infrastructure announced at the recent APEC Summit will play a major role in advancing the next phase of Korea\u2019s AI ecosystem. We expect this to help startups move faster in developing their technologies and spark new waves of innovation across industries. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups will continue working with NVIDIA to create even more opportunities for Korean startups to grow and compete globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cho-pull-quote-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>Next up: Join NVIDIA AI Day Sao Paulo, running in January, to discover the latest AI breakthroughs, connect with peers and experts, and more.<\/p>\n<p><i>Explore more content from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/tag\/ai-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AI Days<\/i><\/a><i> around the globe.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><!-- #colophon --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- #page --><\/p>\n<p><!-- #has-highlight-and-share -->\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/ai-day-seoul\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}