SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won’s Cast Reveals Tech Industry Ties
(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Kim Hak-jin = SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won revealed messages left by global large tech leaders on his wrist cast.
According to the business world on March 26, 2026, Chairman Choi said on his social network service (SNS) on March 25, 2026, “I am posting this to commemorate the release of the cast,” and “Thanks to my friends who encouraged me to recover quickly every time I went on a business trip, I became attached to the cast.”
Previously, Chairman Choi suffered a crack in his wrist while playing tennis with his children, and had to wear a cast for about eight weeks during his overseas schedule.
The photos he released showed heads of global big tech, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son, personally signing or leaving messages of support for the cast.
It is said that the scene in question was filmed when Chairman Choi visited Silicon Valley and Seattle in the United States last month. In particular, at the so-called ‘chicken and beer meeting’ held in Silicon Valley, CEO Jensen Huang is known to have shown his closeness by personally leaving an autograph.
The industry is interpreting this move as a strategic message that goes beyond simple sharing of personal daily life. It is evaluated as a symbolic display of the relationship with SK Hynix, a key memory supplier, at a time when global big tech companies are competing to build AI infrastructure.
As demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) has increased rapidly due to the recent spread of AI, supply shortages are worsening. Major companies such as NVIDIA, Google, and Meta are strengthening cooperation with suppliers to secure stable HBM and DDR5.
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