LG’s Koo to Meet Nvidia’s Huang for First Time as Physical AI Partnership Takes Shape

Huang to visit South Korea next week, nine months after last trip

Talks to center on pairing LG robots with Nvidia chips

Meetings with Hyundai’s Chung and other business leaders also in view

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo will meet Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang when Huang visits South Korea early next month. The two are set to discuss cooperation in physical artificial intelligence, according to industry officials. It will be their first official meeting.

Huang will visit South Korea after wrapping up Computex 2026, an information-technology trade show in Taipei, industry officials said on May 28. He is also slated to meet other major South Korean business figures during the trip. His talks with Koo are expected to focus on robotics cooperation.

LG Group and Nvidia are both expanding their robotics businesses. LG Electronics stepped up its push earlier this year by unveiling its humanoid robot, LG CLOi, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. Nvidia has introduced Jetson, a chipset for robots, and Isaac, its robotics software platform. Robotics cooperation was also the main topic when Madison Huang, a senior director at Nvidia and Jensen Huang’s daughter, met LG Electronics President Ryu Jae-cheol last month. The two exchanged views on combining LG CLOi with Isaac. Industry officials say the Koo-Huang meeting will serve to finalize those earlier discussions.

The agenda is also set to include development of a robot foundation model, or RFM, to serve as the brain of humanoid robots. LG Group is developing an RFM through LG AI Research. The effort would use Nvidia’s high-performance graphics processing unit server infrastructure to train on data held by LG Electronics and sharpen robot capabilities.

Huang is also poised to meet other conglomerate leaders during the visit. A meeting with Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun is being coordinated, according to industry officials. A possible meeting with Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee has also been discussed. Huang has shown strong interest in South Korea since visiting the country in October 2025 for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit. During that trip, he held what was described as a “kkanbu meeting” in Seoul with Lee and Chung and pledged to supply 260,000 Nvidia GPUs to South Korea.

“South Korea is home to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world’s two leading memory-chip makers, and it is building ecosystems for sovereign AI and physical AI,” an industry official said. “That appears to be why Jensen Huang is focused on deepening engagement with South Korea.”

During Computex 2026, Huang is also scheduled to host an event called GTC Korea Night on June 1 and separately meet South Korean partner companies. SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, who works with Nvidia in memory chips including high-bandwidth memory, is likely to attend.

Kang Hae-ryeong / Kim Chae-yeon, Hankyung reporters hr.kang@hankyung.com