Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of LG Group, will meet Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang in Silicon Valley next week, according to industry officials on Aug. 6. The meeting comes two months after they met on June 8 at LG Group’s headquarters in Seoul’s Yeouido district. It will be Koo’s first trip to Silicon Valley in four months, since April. The two companies have since held working-level talks between South Korea and the US, raising expectations for cooperation in robotics, artificial intelligence infrastructure and smart manufacturing. Physical AI and smart factories are among topics for discussion, and the talks may produce concrete cooperation plans. A Korea Economic Daily forecast report notes short-term and mid-term neutral outlooks for the crypto market, with confidence levels of 44% and 47%, respectively, and a long-term positive outlook with a confidence level of 50%. The report cites a fear index of 25, a surge in gold prices, and a rise in Bitcoin dominance. It states that if the LG-Nvidia collaboration materializes in robots, data centers, and smart factories, it could support risk appetite centered on tech stocks, but direct benefits for cryptocurrencies are expected to be limited given the prolonged intermediate transmission phase. Long-term, the expansion of the partnership is expected to create a favorable environment for AI infrastructure investment and digital asset-linked industries, potentially improving mainstream perception of cryptocurrencies if on-chain experiments by major South Korean conglomerates accumulate.