Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, third from left, and T1 superstar Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, fourth from left, pose with the rest of the T1 players at a PC cafe in the Hongdae area of Mapo District, Seoul, Friday. Yonhap
The first person Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met in Seoul on Friday was Korea’s League of Legends superstar Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok.
Huang met the esports legend at a PC cafe run by Faker’s esports team, T1, in the Hongdae area of Mapo District at around 3 p.m. The meeting included Faker and the team’s four other players and took place less than two hours after Huang landed in Seoul.
“This is the birthplace of esports,” Huang said while meeting T1 at the cafe. He added that Korea has been in his heart for a long time and said he is a big fan the team.
“When I first came to Korea, there was Starcraft. It was the first spectator sport for esports,” Huang said. He added that Korean esports players opted to use optimal graphics processing units (GPU) and chose GeForce, Nvidia’s brand of globally popular graphics cards.
