On the 8th, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met students at Seoul National University and expressed affection for Korea, saying that these days anything becomes popular if you put K in front of it, and that when he left home this morning he was just Jensen, but now he is K-Jensen.

Meeting students at the Haedong Advanced Engineering Building on the Seoul National University campus in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Huang said that Korea is truly remarkable and has everything. He called Korea a truly special country and noted that few nations in the world simultaneously possess an outstanding electronics industry, cloud technology, mobile technology, mechanical engineering and manufacturing, and AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities.

Huang told the students that at the moment when the AI revolution is beginning, they stand in a very special position. He said they are the generation that will create a new world through this technology and that he hopes they seize that opportunity. He added that he is truly envious and that they are growing up in exactly the right country.

Huang said he was among the first generation of engineers who could design chips using computers, sharing his path to success. He told the students they are graduating at a time analogous to when he experienced the start of the computer revolution and that he seized that opportunity. He said they will design chips using artificial intelligence and that this is an era of immense opportunity for those who hold astonishing technology in their hands.

Huang also emphasized that there is no great achievement without pain and effort. He said the AI revolution began as they built computers, that the market called AI did not even exist, but they devoted their lives to creating it. He said an innovator creates what no one has asked for, makes products for a market that does not exist, and keeps believing even if there is failure at the beginning.

The Seoul National University event Huang attended drew a heated response, with more than 1,000 people registering in advance. When he said that the next time he comes to Korea people should call him K-Jensen, cheers broke out around the venue.