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한컴, 임단협 조기 타결…김연수표 AI 신사업 드라이브 건다
[경제일보] 한글과컴퓨터가 2026년도 임금 및 단체협약을 조기 타결하며 인공지능(AI) 신사업 추진을 위한 내부 안정 기반을 마련했다. 김연수 대표가 그리고 있는 ‘소버린 에이전틱 운영체제(OS)’ 전략에도 한층 힘이 실릴 전망이다. 한컴은 한글과컴퓨터 노동조합 ‘행동주의’와 2026년 임단협 협상을 최종 타결했다고 10일 밝혔다. 이번 합의에 따라 한컴은 임직원 연봉을 평균 5.8% 인상하고 복지포인트와 연차휴가 확대 등 근무환경 개선 조항을 신설·보완했다. 이번 임단협 조기 타결은 단순한 처우 개선 이상의 의미를 갖는다. 한컴은 지난달 전략 발표회 ‘HANCOM : THE SHIFT’를 통해 36년간 이어온 오피스 소프트웨어 기업의 정체성을 넘어 소버린 에이전틱 OS 기업으로 전환하겠다고 선언했다. AI 신사업이 본격 실행 단계로 들어서는 시점에 노사 갈등 요인을 일찍 정리한 셈이다. 소버린 에이전틱 OS는 조직 내부 데이터와 외부 AI 모델, 기존 업무 시스템, 권한 체계를 하나의 안전한 환경에서 연결·통제하는 AI 에이전트 운영체제다. 단순히 문서를 작성해주는 AI 기능을 붙이는 수준이 아니라 여러 AI 에이전트가 기업 업무 환경에서 작동할 수 있도록 조율하고 관리하는 실행 플랫폼에 가깝다. 김연수 대표가 이 사업에 속도를 내는 배경은 시장 변화와 맞닿아 있다. 생성형 AI 경쟁은 단순 질의응답을 넘어 실제 업무를 수행하는 에이전트형 AI로 이동하고 있다. 공공, 국방, 금융, 헬스케어처럼 민감한 데이터를 다루는 영역에서는 외부 클라우드에 데이터를 무방비로 맡기기 어렵다. 한컴이 ‘소버린’을 앞세운 이유도 데이터 주권과 보안 통제 수요가 커지고 있기 때문이다. 한컴은 6월 소버린 에이전틱 OS 베타 버전을 공개하고 하반기 실제 고객 환경에서 검증을 거쳐 내년 상반기 정식 출시를 목표로 하고 있다. 회사는 중앙부처와 교육청, 금융·보안 민감 산업, 기업 고객을 포함한 약 20만 고객 기반을 신사업 확산의 핵심 자산으로 보고 있다. 글로벌 사업화도 중요한 축이다. 한컴은 유럽을 시작으로 해외 파트너십을 확대하고 일본 시장 진출도 추진하고 있다. 특히 유럽은 데이터 주권과 AI 규제에 민감한 시장인 만큼 소버린 에이전틱 OS의 메시지가 비교적 분명하게 작동할 수 있는 지역이다. 한컴 입장에서는 국내 오피스 기업 이미지를 넘어 글로벌 AI 운영 플랫폼 기업으로 인식을 바꿔야 하는 과제를 안고 있다. 이번 노사 합의는 이 같은 전환 과정에서 실행력을 높이는 계기가 될 수 있다. AI 신사업은 기술 개발만으로 완성되지 않는다. 제품 기획, 보안, 클라우드, 영업, 고객지원, 해외 파트너십까지 조직 전체가 한 방향으로 움직여야 한다. 임단협 조기 타결은 김연수 대표가 내부 결속을 바탕으로 신사업 드라이브를 걸 수 있는 환경을 만든 셈이다. 김연수 한컴 대표는 “이번 임단협 조기 타결은 노사가 회사의 미래 성장 방향에 공감하며 함께 만들어낸 성과”라며 “안정적인 조직 운영을 기반으로 소버린 에이전틱 OS를 비롯한 AI 신사업을 성공적으로 추진해 글로벌 AI 기업으로 도약하겠다”고 말했다.
2026-06-10 11:08:28
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Lessons in Leadership from the Classics | Chapter 4: Nvidia
The Patience and the Ascent of Jensen Huang How the Alleyways of Korea and the Floors of Semiconductor Factories Forged the Aesthetics of 古枯孤高 [Economy Daily] At the beating heart of the civilizational upheaval we call artificial intelligence stands one company and one man: Nvidia and Jensen Huang. The world measures them in market capitalization and market share. But the deeper truth of great leadership outlasts any number. It is the power of time, long and unhurried. It is the discipline of subtraction. It is the courage of solitude. And it is, finally, the dignity that comes only from having endured. In the vocabulary of East Asian philosophy, these four qualities compress into a single phrase: 古枯孤高 — ancient (古), austere (枯), solitary (孤), elevated (高). Nvidia's rise is not the story of a stock that spiked overnight. It is the story of these four characters slowly calcifying into the bones of one man and the culture of one company, across thirty years of painstaking accumulation. 古 — The Ancient: Time as the First Discipline Every great enterprise, if it is truly great, eventually earns its face — but only through time. Jensen Huang had been walking this earth as a businessman long before the world knew his name. His relationship with Korea begins here, and it begins on foot. According to domestic industry accounts from that era, Huang made repeated visits to Yongsan Electronics Market in Seoul in the late 1990s and early 2000s — when Nvidia was still an obscure startup struggling to be taken seriously. He came not as a visiting dignitary but as a salesman: explaining graphics cards to shop owners, persuading assemblers, winning trust one transaction at a time. Huang himself has said his connection to Korea dates to 1996. He has spoken of how South Korea's explosion of high-speed internet, its PC-bang culture, and the nationwide fever for StarCraft formed a critical foundation for Nvidia's early growth. Korea, in those years, was the world's most electrified laboratory for digital culture — and the heat of its gaming rooms, the sharpness of its consumers, the velocity with which it embraced new technology, all of it nourished a company that had not yet found its footing. This detail matters enormously. The histories of great corporations are often rewritten to begin in gleaming boardrooms or on famous stages. But Jensen Huang's formation happened in narrow storefronts, surrounded by towers of component boxes, in a market where customers were price-sensitive and performance-obsessed and utterly unimpressed by brand mythology. In Yongsan, he did not sell a brand. He sold credibility. He sold product knowledge. He sold the felt experience of superior performance. The I Ching offers an image for this season of a man's life: 潛龍勿用 — "the hidden dragon does not yet act." The dragon submerged beneath the water has not yet ascended to the sky, but it is already gathering strength, already orienting itself toward its direction. Korea was that submerged time for Jensen Huang. It was where the dragon went quiet and grew. 枯 — The Austere: The Discipline of Withholding Austerity is not poverty. It is restraint. And few companies in the history of Silicon Valley have practiced restraint as rigorously or as consequentially as Nvidia. While its competitors raced to win the surface war — chasing specification numbers, upgrading the cosmetics of their products, playing to the gallery of consumer benchmarks — Huang kept his organization's attention trained on something less visible and far more consequential: the underlying architecture of computation, the logic of parallel processing, the infrastructure that would eventually become the indispensable engine of artificial intelligence. This is the aesthetic the Chinese literati call 枯淡 — a beauty that comes not from ornament but from essence. The Diamond Sutra puts it this way: 凡所有相 皆是虛妄 — "all that has form is ultimately illusion." In business terms: what catches the eye rarely determines a company's fate. What determines fate is the capability that cannot be seen. Nvidia understood this early. That is why the Nvidia of today rests not on the appearance of its products but on the depth of its software ecosystem, its developer base, and the intellectual architecture that competitors cannot easily replicate. This philosophy of austerity extends to Huang's understanding of human character. Speaking at Stanford, he told students that the most important trait for success is not intelligence but resilience — and went further, saying, "I hope you will have the experience of suffering and hardship." It is a startling thing to say, and deliberately so. His point is unambiguous: greatness is not the product of cleverness alone. Character is forged not in comfort but in friction. Huang speaks from experience. He has publicly described being bullied in an American boarding school as a boy, washing dishes and cleaning bathrooms at minimum wage. His philosophy of hardship is not rhetoric. It is autobiography. Most organizations today speak to their people endlessly about well-being and are afraid to speak about tempering. But Jensen Huang did not flinch from the uncomfortable truth: growth always requires some degree of resistance and endurance. He knows this in his body. 孤 — The Solitary: The Courage of the Unfashionable Conviction Solitude, properly understood, is not the condition of being alone. It is the willingness to choose a road that others have not taken — and to walk it long enough to find out whether you were right. Nvidia was, for a very long time, a company that received no particular applause. It was known as a graphics chip company, and in that category, it was formidable. But inside that public identity, Huang carried a private and lonely conviction: that the dominant paradigm of computing would shift — that the age of the general-purpose CPU would eventually yield to an age of accelerated computing. Markets demand the present moment. Leaders sometimes have to absorb today's contempt in exchange for tomorrow's vindication. Only those who sustain that solitude earn the right to the rewards of early arrival. The Analects of Confucius puts it plainly: 德不孤 必有隣 — "virtue is never truly alone; it will always find its neighbors." What appears solitary and eccentric at the beginning eventually draws its community. And in the story of Nvidia and Korea, this movement from isolation to alliance is almost perfectly illustrated. The partnership between Huang and South Korea has long since outgrown its origins in retail sales. SK Hynix began collaborating with Nvidia on High Bandwidth Memory in the uncertain early days of that technology — a bet made before the outcome was clear. That relationship has since deepened into something that resembles co-development more than supply chain. Nvidia has been advancing large-scale AI chip supply and infrastructure cooperation with the Korean government, Samsung, the SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver. The lonely salesman who once walked the aisles of Yongsan is now at the table with the leaders of Korean industry and government, shaping the architecture of the nation's AI future. The solitary vigil became a strategic alliance. What was once walked alone is now walked together. 高 — The Elevated: Altitude as Accountability Elevation is not merely position. It is character — the capacity to see farther and to hold responsibility longer than others can or will. The Doctrine of the Mean speaks of 至誠無息 — "true sincerity never rests." This is, unexpectedly, one of the most precise descriptions of how Jensen Huang has run his company. He did not build Nvidia on a passing fashion. He crossed product failures, market cynicism, supply chain crises, and geopolitical headwinds, and climbed — slowly, deliberately, one foothold at a time — to the position the company occupies today. This is not a mountain ascended in a season. This is a summit reached in decades. Here, again, Korea re-enters the story. However regal the title "emperor of the AI era" may sound, the circuitry running through that crown is substantially Korean. Korea began as the consumption frontier — the PC-bang, the gaming market, the early adopter culture that gave Nvidia its first mass foothold. It has since become the strategic frontier: the partner in HBM and advanced memory, the co-architect of AI factories and digital transformation. Between the image of Jensen Huang persuading shop owners in Yongsan and the image of Jensen Huang discussing AI infrastructure with the heads of Korea's largest conglomerates, there runs a very long river. But the river is unbroken. What he first saw in Korea was not merely a sales opportunity. He saw a society with an extraordinary capacity for fast technical comprehension, for organizing technology into industry, for connecting the work of the mind to the work of the factory floor. That insight lives inside every partnership he has built here since. A Reckoning for Korean Business What, then, should Korean business leaders take from this? The lesson is not complicated, though it is demanding. Innovation does not arise from eloquent mission statements. It arises from time endured, from the discipline to discard the inessential, from the independence to pursue an unpopular answer, and from the accountability that eventually transforms all of it into something worthy of the word dignity. Jensen Huang's career is not a story of a man who happened to catch the AI wave at the right moment. It is a story of sediment — of years and decades of experience, discipline, and conviction accumulating until they were precisely aligned with the door that history opened. Which asks certain questions of Korean business. Do we still carry the original instinct of those years when we wrestled with the market on the ground floor — when we had no reputation to trade on, only our knowledge and our reliability? Do we have the austere courage to strip away what is not essential? Do we have the nerve to choose the lonely right answer over the popular wrong one? Management, at its best, is completed in the love of people, in the respect for the work done in the field, and in the refusal to defy the logic of time and nature. The tree that grows too fast is hollow at its core. The success that comes too easily has shallow roots. Nvidia — Jensen Huang's Nvidia — took the opposite path. It stood like an ancient tree, silent and unhurried, enduring the winds and the droughts, growing upward alone toward the high place it had decided, long ago, to reach. His success, for that reason, is not a flash of light. It is light that stays. That is the lesson of 古枯孤高. Only those who have endured long enough ascend high enough. Only those who have passed through austerity reach genuine depth. Only those who have borne solitude long enough find themselves, one day, at the center of their age. Jensen Huang's Korean story is one essential thread in that larger narrative. Today's glory is conceived in yesterday's alleyways. Even the history of the world's most powerful technology company is completed, in the end, only on the accumulated sweat and trust of human beings. He is demonstrating that, quietly, every day. The author is a contributing columnist covering business philosophy, technology, and economic history.
2026-04-22 11:57:23
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