Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Japan on Monday on a mini-Asia trip that included sword-making and mixed reality headsets in Seoul. On Sunday, Zuckerberg shared footage on social media of a “special afternoon learning about making katanas” with a sword master, which saw him smashing molten metal and wielding a blade. According to South Korean media, Zuckerberg is then anticipated to go to South Korea, where he is scheduled to meet with President Yoon Suk Yeol and leaders of tech giants Samsung and LG. Bloomberg News said that the 39-year-old had been skiing in Japan with his family and was scheduled to meet with Facebook developers in Tokyo on Monday and Tuesday.
During his South Korea trip, Zuckerberg will meet the CEO of consumer tech giant LG Electronics
“Mark is planning a brief visit to the country and is scheduling some key meetings,” Meta said in an AFP statement, without providing any other information. South Korea is home to some of the world’s largest technology businesses, such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which are worldwide memory chip leaders. These two companies are among the few in the world that produce high-end memory chips specifically for artificial intelligence processors. During his South Korea trip, Zuckerberg will meet the CEO of consumer tech giant LG Electronics to discuss the development of a mixed-reality headset to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro, the Korea Economic Daily reported.