{"slug": "nc-founders-past-relationship-with-jensen-huang-back-in-spotlight", "title": "NC founder’s past relationship with Jensen Huang back in spotlight", "summary": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will meet separately with NCsoft CEO Kim Taek-jin during his visit to Seoul on Sunday to discuss technological cooperation in gaming and physical AI. The meeting highlights the long-standing relationship between the two executives, which began in 2008 with a strategic marketing alliance for the game Aion. Kim is the only Korean gaming executive on Huang’s official meeting list.", "body_md": "The long-standing relationship between NC CEO Kim Taek-jin and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is back in the spotlight, as the chief of the global artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant prepares for a rare one-on-one meeting with the Korean game mogul during his visit to Seoul. Huang is set to arrive Friday for a packed itinerary with a group of conglomerate leaders here. Notably, he is scheduled to meet separately with Kim on Sunday to explore comprehensive technological cooperation in gaming and physical AI, referring to AI embedded in robots and autonomous systems. Among Korean gaming executives, Kim is the only one on Huang's official meeting list. Their bond dates back to 2008, when NC launched Aion, its blockbuster massively multiplayer online role-playing game. At the time, the two companies formed a strategic marketing alliance, releasing limited edition Aion GeForce 9800GT graphics cards to commemorate the game's open beta test. GeForce is Nvidia’s flagship graphic card brand. That collaboration has seamlessly extended into the cutting-edge hardware era. At the G-Star 2025 game exhi", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nc-founders-past-relationship-with-jensen-huang-back-in-spotlight", "canonical_source": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260604/nc-founders-past-relationship-with-jensen-huang-back-in-spotlight?utm_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-06-04 06:52:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-04 06:53:53.330954+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "robotics"], "entities": ["NC", "Kim Taek-jin", "Nvidia", "Jensen Huang", "Aion", "GeForce", "G-Star 2025"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nc-founders-past-relationship-with-jensen-huang-back-in-spotlight", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nc-founders-past-relationship-with-jensen-huang-back-in-spotlight.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nc-founders-past-relationship-with-jensen-huang-back-in-spotlight.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nc-founders-past-relationship-with-jensen-huang-back-in-spotlight.jsonld"}}