{"id":57333,"date":"2026-06-01T07:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/57333\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:13:12","slug":"nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-fuels-south-korea-stock-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/57333\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Fuels South Korea Stock Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang<\/a> was at the center of investors’ attention on Monday as markets looked for clues about the next phase of the AI boom.<\/p>\n

But while Huang commanded the spotlight at a major trade show in Taiwan, investors were piling into South Korean tech stocks.<\/p>\n

As Huang spoke, shares of LG Electronics surged 30% for a second straight session, taking their gains this year to more than 300%.<\/p>\n

Samsung Electronics rose 10%, pushing the tech giant’s gains this year to about 190%.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index rose more than 4% and is up over 100% this year.<\/p>\n

The rally came as investors bet South Korean companies could be among the biggest beneficiaries of Nvidia’s expanding AI ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Part of the excitement stemmed from reports<\/a> that Huang will travel to South Korea later this week and meet with executives from some of the country’s largest companies, including LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo. <\/p>\n

The rally was also fueled by fresh evidence that the AI boom continues to turbocharge demand for semiconductors.<\/p>\n

In May, South Korea’s semiconductor exports surged by nearly 170%, to a record high, helping the country’s total exports post their strongest growth in more than four decades.<\/p>\n

The AI trade has turbocharged South Korea’s stock market this year, with the Kospi more than doubling.<\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs<\/a> has said South Korea’s red-hot stock rally still has room to run due to modest valuations and a record supply shortfall for memory chips amid strong demand growth.<\/p>\n

“Meaningful capacity increases require at least two years, while demand is growing rapidly. This creates potential for long-term earnings growth driven by full capacity utilization and sustained price gains,” wrote Jeff Kim, an analyst at KB Securities, on Monday.<\/p>\n

Kim added that the AI boom is creating a more durable growth cycle for suppliers, including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, and LG Innotek, leaving room for further earnings and valuation gains.<\/p>\n

Last month, the hot market minted two new trillion-dollar companies tied to the AI memory chip trade: Samsung Electronics<\/a> and SK Hynix.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was at the center of investors’ attention on Monday as markets looked for clues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,20995,24980,25,2251,23164,1304,2446,8242,16967,4752,13894,3123,13757,698,33382,573],"class_list":["post-57333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-boom","tag-ai-trade","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-country","tag-gain","tag-investor","tag-jensen-huang","tag-monday","tag-rally","tag-room","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-semiconductor","tag-sk-hynix","tag-south-korea","tag-strong-growth","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}