"Jensen Huang's Eldest Daughter" Madison Huang Abruptly Cancels South Korea Visit... "Family Reasons"?

Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyunghoon, scheduled for November 8, called off

Nvidia AI event on November 9 to proceed as planned

The South Korea visit by Madison Huang, Nvidia senior director and eldest daughter of CEO Jensen Huang, has been canceled.

Madison Huang, senior director of product marketing for NVIDIA Omniverse and Robotics and eldest daughter of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Yonhap News

According to the Ministry of Science and ICT on November 8, a planned meeting that day between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyunghoon and Huang was called off after her visit to South Korea was canceled. The ministry had originally planned to hold high-level talks between the government and Nvidia through the meeting. However, the meeting was canceled in full following the cancellation of Huang's visit.

Huang had been scheduled to visit South Korea to attend the "Nvidia AI Day Seoul 2026" event, which will be held at COEX in Seoul on November 9-10. The event will proceed as scheduled despite Huang's absence.

The Ministry of Science and ICT announced the cancellation of the visit but did not disclose the specific reason. As reports said Huang canceled the trip for "family reasons," speculation has arisen that it may be linked to allegations reported recently by foreign media concerning her father, CEO Jensen Huang, and Chinese intelligence agencies.

A Chinese national, Ellis Huang, a senior executive at Megaspeed who had a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, has been accused of gathering information for the Chinese government. Screenshot from NetThunder's LinkedIn page·Yonhap News

On November 5, U.S. online media outlet Axios and others reported that Brian Mast, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a China hawk; John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party; and Rick Crawford, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, had sent a joint letter to CEO Huang asking him to attend a closed-door congressional briefing on November 18. They reportedly asked him to explain his relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese American executive at Singaporean data company Megaspeed, who is suspected of spying for China.

The New York Times (NYT) previously reported that Alice Huang, who is affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security, gathered information about U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors and sought information from Jensen Huang to persuade Nvidia to supply China with cutting-edge semiconductors. However, it has not been confirmed whether the cancellation of Madison Huang's visit to South Korea is related to the allegations surrounding CEO Huang.

Meanwhile, Huang is responsible for product marketing for Omniverse and Robotics at Nvidia. She has drawn attention in South Korea not only as CEO Huang's eldest daughter but also as one of the key figures leading Nvidia's physical AI business.

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