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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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삼성물산 건설부문, 국내 첫 오프그리드 그린수소 시설 준공 外
[경제일보] 삼성물산은 경상북도 김천시에 태양광 발전과 연계한 그린수소 생산시설을 준공했다고 25일 밝혔다. 이날 행사에는 기후에너지환경부 김성환 장관, 송언석 국회의원, 양금희 경북도 경제부지사, 배낙호 김천시장, 조은희 대구지방환경청장, 한국에너지기술평가원 이승재 원장, 한국수소연합 김재홍 회장, 삼성물산 건설부문 오세철 대표이사 사장 등이 참석했다. 이번 프로젝트는 태양광 발전으로 생산된 100% 재생에너지로 물을 전기분해(수전해)하는 방식으로 그린수소를 생산(10MW)하는 시설이다. 하루 0.6톤, 연간 230톤 이상의 그린수소를 생산할 수 있다. 생산된 수소는 지역 수소 인프라와 연계돼 수소차 충전소 등에 공급될 예정이다 특히 재생에너지를 직접 활용해 수소를 생산하는 오프그리드 방식을 적용한 국내 최초 사례로 재생에너지 기반 그린수소 생산 모델을 제시했다는 점에서 의미가 크다. 삼성물산은 이번 사업에서 태양광 발전 설비와 수전해 설비를 비롯한 수소 생산·저장 설비의 설계와 구매·시공을 포함한 EPC 전반을 수행했다. 향후 운영 및 유지관리(O&M)에도 참여해 안정적인 시설 운영과 기술 고도화를 이어갈 계획이다. 사업을 통해 확보한 경험을 바탕으로는 해외 그린수소 사업 기반 마련과 국가전략기술로 지정된 수전해 설비와 운영 기술 국산화를 추진할 방침이다. 삼성물산 정기석 신재생기술연구소장은 “국내 최초로 오프그리드 기반 그린수소 생산을 실현함으로써 향후 국내외 대규모 그린수소 프로젝트 추진을 위한 기술적 기반을 확보했다”며“친환경 에너지 기술과 사업 역량을 바탕으로 글로벌 그린수소 시장에서 경쟁력을 지속적으로 강화해 나갈 계획이다”이라고 말했다. 부영그룹, 오투리조트 골프장 오픈 예정 부영그룹은 오투리조트가 오는 28일 골프장을 오픈하며 본격적인 봄 시즌을 시작한다고 25일 밝혔다. 오투리조트 골프장은 세계 3대 골프장 설계의 명가 미국 DYE사가 설계했으며 백두·함백·태백SKY 코스 등 27홀로 구성돼 있다. 고지대 특성상 공기의 저항력이 낮아 평균 비거리가 최대 30m 이상 증가하는 특징이 있다. 특히 태백SKY 13홀은 90년 이상 된 금강송 군락지를 끼고 도는 코스로 알려져 있다. 같은 코스의 18홀은 한반도 모양의 벙커를 조성해 골프 마니아에게 색다른 볼거리를 제공한다. 함백 SKY 4번홀은 해발 1100m에 위치해 국내 골프장 중에서도 가장 높은 곳에서 라운드를 즐길 수 있다. 오투리조트 골프장은 골프와 숙박, 조식이 포함된 골프패키지도 순차적으로 선보일 계획이다. 해당 패키지는 고객 선호에 따라 객실 타입을 선택할 수 있도록 구성되며 54홀 이상 이용 시 추가 할인 혜택도 제공된다. 패키지 이용 고객에게는 리조트 내 식음 업장 할인 혜택이 제공되며 객실 추가 이용 시에도 우대가가 적용된다. 소규모 이용객을 위한 2인·3인 전용 패키지도 출시 예정이다. 지역주민을 위한 할인 혜택도 마련했다. 기존 7개 지역(태백, 동해, 삼척, 영월, 정선, 영주, 봉화)에 안동, 울진, 강릉, 제천 등 4개 지역이 추가되며 총 11개 시·군 주민들이 할인 혜택을 받을 수 있다. 매주 화요일은 ‘지역주민의 날’로 지정해 최저가 골프 요금 혜택을 제공한다. 오투리조트 관계자는 “개장을 앞두고 코스 정비와 시설 점검 등 막바지 준비에 박차를 가하고 있다”며 “봄 시즌의 시작을 오투리조트와 함께하길 바란다”고 말했다. LH 토지주택연구원, 한국도시재생학회와 ‘소규모주택정비 관리지역 현황과 과제’ 세미나 개최 LH 토지주택연구원(LHRI)은 한국도시재생학회와 ‘도심주택 공급수단, 소규모주택정비 관리지역 현황과 과제’를 주제로 정책세미나를 공동 개최한다고 25일 밝혔다. 이번 세미나는 소규모주택정비 관리지역, 현행 제도·사례 등을 공유하고 발전 방안을 논의하고자 마련됐다. 오는 26일 14시부터 서울 중구 소재 써밋원 서울역점에서 열린다. 주제발표에서는 권혁삼 LH 토지주택연구원(LHRI) 연구위원과 맹다미 서울연구원 연구실장, 박성수 LH 수도권정비사업특별본부 팀장이 나선다. 각각 ‘도심 주택공급 정책과 소규모주택정비 관리지역 제도’, ‘저층주거지 체계적 관리 및 정비를 위한 서울시 모아타운 정책 방향’, ‘LH참여 서울형 소규모주택정비 관리지역 사례’를 주제로 현행 제도와 사례를 진단하고 발전 방향을 제시한다. 권혁삼 연구위원은 도심주택 공급 정책에 따라 도입된 소규모주택정비 관리지역 제도의 운영 현황과 개정 내용을 소개할 예정이다. 사업 활성화를 위한 개선 과제와 공공역할도 공유한다. 맹다미 연구실장은 서울시 저층주거지 특성을 반영한 소규모주택정비 관리지역 ‘모아타운’ 정책의 추진 현황을 발표하고 체계적 관리와 정비를 위한 향후 과제를 제시한다. 박성수 팀장은 서울시에서 추진 중인 공공참여형 소규모주택정비 관리지역 ‘모아타운’ 사례와 추진 성과를 발표한다. 이와 함께 다양한 기반시설 확보와 기반 마련을 위한 건의 사항을 제안한다. 주제발표에 이어서 종합토론이 진행된다. 종합토론은 이재우 한국도시재생학회 회장을 좌장으로 △배웅규 중앙대학교 교수 △김지인 국토교통부 사무관 △김수진 LH 수도권정비사업특별본부 처장 △박정은 국토연구원 연구위원 △이덕호 한국부동산원 부장 △박순신 이너시티 대표가 참여한다. 이재우 한국도시재생학회장은 “도심 주택공급 정책의 실행력 제고를 위해 공공과 민간의 전문가들이 함께 모여 현황을 공유하고 개선 과제와 공공역할에 대한 종합적 논의의 장이 될 것으로 기대한다”고 밝혔다. 정창무 LH 토지주택연구원장은 “LH는 소규모주택정비 관리지역 입법부터 제도 안착과 실행을 위해 지속적인 노력을 기울여 왔다”며 “세미나를 계기로 도시정비가 더욱 활성화될 수 있는 새로운 발전 방안을 모색할 수 있기를 바란다”고 말했다.
2026-03-25 14:39:43
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