Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin, proper, poses with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance throughout a dinner in Washington, Friday. Courtesy of Shinsegae Group
The chairman of Korean retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group, Chung Yong-jin, has attended a Christmas dinner hosted by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and met with White Home officers and enterprise leaders, the group mentioned Sunday.
Chung attended the year-end occasion held Friday night (U.S. time) at Vance’s residence in Washington, in response to Shinsegae.
The occasion was additionally attended by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, White Home Chief of Workers Susie Wiles and White Home Deputy Chief of Workers Stephen Miller.
Enterprise leaders have been additionally current, together with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Palantir Applied sciences Chief Know-how Officer Shyam Sankar, the corporate mentioned.
Forward of the dinner, Chung visited the White Home and met with senior officers, together with Michael Kratsios, director of the White Home Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage.
Through the assembly, the 2 sides mentioned methods to cooperate on U.S. synthetic intelligence (AI) export packages, whereas Chung expressed curiosity in adopting superior applied sciences to modernize distribution programs.
The dinner was additionally attended by members of the Rockbridge Community, a company based by Vance. Chung serves because the Asia chairman of the entity and sits on the board of Rockbridge Community Korea, a assume tank launched in October, Shinsegae mentioned.
