검색결과 총 3건
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삼성화재 리스크 관리 경진대회 대상팀, 국제 보험대회서 3위 外
[경제일보] 삼성화재는 자사가 운영한 '제4회 전국 대학(원)생 리스크 관리 경진대회'의 대상팀인 '포슈어'가 지난 21일 싱가포르 난양공과대학교(NTU)에서 열린 국제 보험 경진대회 'GAIP 2026'에서 3위를 수상했다고 24일 밝혔다. GAIP 2026은 아시아 보험산업의 미래 인재를 발굴하기 위해 글로벌 보험 협력기구 GAIP(Global Asia Insurance Partnership)와 난양공대가 공동 주관하는 대회다. 한국을 비롯해 일본과 홍콩, 인도네시아 등 아시아 9개국에서 자국 예선을 거쳐 선발된 대학생 대표팀이 참가했다. 한국 대표로 참가한 포슈어팀은 이화여대·가천대·방송통신대 학생들로 구성됐다. 국내 본선에서 대상을 받은 '생활권 기반 고령자 안전운전 특약'을 주제로 발표했다. 해당 특약은 주행 기록을 바탕으로 고령 운전자별 생활 반경을 도출하고 주행거리와 생활권 내·외 안전운전 수준, 운전패턴 변화 등을 분석해 보험료를 차등 적용하는 방식이다. 개인별 주행 변화를 파악해 사고를 예방하고 고령화에 따른 이동 위험을 보험으로 관리하는 방안을 제안했다. 학생들은 대회 기간 아시아 계리 컨퍼런스(AAC 2026)를 참관하고 삼성Re 싱가포르 법인을 방문해 글로벌 보험산업의 주요 현안과 사업 현장을 살펴보는 시간도 가졌다. 삼성화재 관계자는 "앞으로도 미래 인재들이 보험산업의 다양한 리스크를 새로운 시각에서 고민하고 글로벌 경험을 쌓을 수 있도록 지속적으로 기회를 마련하겠다"고 말했다. ◆ 한화손보, 4050 가족돌봄여성 대상 심리·자립 지원 실시 한화손해보험이 가족을 장기간 돌보며 심리적·경제적 어려움을 겪는 4050 중장년 여성을 대상으로 통합 자립지원에 나선다고 24일 밝혔다. 이번 지원은 한화손보가 가족돌봄여성을 위해 추진하는 사회공헌 프로그램 '웰투게더 캠페인'의 일환으로 국제구호개발 NGO 월드비전과 함께 진행한다. 지원 프로그램은 심리지원과 자립지원으로 나뉜다. 심리지원은 질병이 발생한 가족을 6개월 이상 돌보고 있는 40·50대 여성을 대상으로 한다. 심리상담 플랫폼 '마인드 카페' 소속 전문 상담사가 1대1 전화 상담을 진행하며 1인당 총 3회에 걸쳐 돌봄 과정에서 쌓인 스트레스와 우울감 해소를 지원한다. 생활 안정을 위한 자립지원금도 지급한다. 중위소득 120% 이하 가구 가운데 선정된 대상자에게 월 30만원씩 3회에 걸쳐 총 90만원을 지원한다. 지원금은 의료·간병비와 의복 구입, 외식비 등으로 사용할 수 있다. 지원 대상자는 월드비전 전국 17개 지역사업본부와 복지관을 통해 신청할 수 있다. 필수 요건과 지원 필요성 등을 종합적으로 평가해 선정한다. 한화손보는 지역 기반 카페와 간병 전문 커뮤니티 등 온라인 채널을 통한 모집도 진행할 계획이다. 한화손보 관계자는 "이번 사업은 가족 간병으로 어려움을 겪는 4050 여성들이 일상을 회복하고 자립할 수 있는 기반을 지원하는 것이 핵심"이라며 "앞으로도 여성의 생애주기 전반을 케어하는 '웰니스 파트너'로서 맞춤형 지원을 지속적으로 발굴하고 확대해 나가겠다"고 말했다. ◆ 현대해상, 화성시와 '아이마음 놀이터' 조성 MOU 체결 현대해상이 화성특례시와 화성시환경재단, 사단법인 루트임팩트, 사회적기업 코끼리공장과 '화성시 자원순환 활성화 및 아이마음 놀이터 조성을 위한 업무협약(MOU)'을 체결했다고 24일 밝혔다. '아이마음 놀이터'는 현대해상이 지방자치단체와 협력해 어린이를 위한 도서와 전시, 체험 놀이공간 등을 조성하는 민관협력 사업이다. 지난해 10월 영등포구청과 첫 협약을 맺어 어울숲공원에 조성했으며 이번 화성시가 두 번째다. 화성시에서는 동탄호수공원 주차타워 유휴공간을 활용해 아동과 가족이 이용할 수 있는 실내 공간을 조성할 예정이다. 화성시는 최근 3년간 기초자치단체 가운데 출생아 수 1위를 기록했다. 이번 협약에 따라 현대해상은 시설 건립과 운영을 위한 재정 후원을 맡는다. 화성시는 정책·행정 지원을 담당하며 화성시환경재단과 루트임팩트, 코끼리공장은 각각 공간 운영과 시설 조성, 프로그램 운영에 협력한다. 화성시 재활용센터 사업과 연계해 시니어가 참여하는 장난감 교환·수리 등 자원순환 활동도 운영한다. 아동을 대상으로 한 자원순환·환경교육 프로그램도 함께 진행할 예정이다. 정경선 현대해상 부사장은 "현대해상은 어린이보험 1위 기업으로서 건강하고 행복한 육아 동반자를 지향한다"며 "'아이마음 놀이터'가 단순한 놀이공간을 넘어 어린이와 양육자, 지역사회가 함께하는 양육 문화를 만들어가는 새로운 거점으로 자리 잡길 기대한다"고 말했다.
2026-08-24 08:38:16
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Lessons in Leadership from the Classics | Chapter 4: Nvidia
The Patience and the Ascent of Jensen Huang How the Alleyways of Korea and the Floors of Semiconductor Factories Forged the Aesthetics of 古枯孤高 [Economy Daily] At the beating heart of the civilizational upheaval we call artificial intelligence stands one company and one man: Nvidia and Jensen Huang. The world measures them in market capitalization and market share. But the deeper truth of great leadership outlasts any number. It is the power of time, long and unhurried. It is the discipline of subtraction. It is the courage of solitude. And it is, finally, the dignity that comes only from having endured. In the vocabulary of East Asian philosophy, these four qualities compress into a single phrase: 古枯孤高 — ancient (古), austere (枯), solitary (孤), elevated (高). Nvidia's rise is not the story of a stock that spiked overnight. It is the story of these four characters slowly calcifying into the bones of one man and the culture of one company, across thirty years of painstaking accumulation. 古 — The Ancient: Time as the First Discipline Every great enterprise, if it is truly great, eventually earns its face — but only through time. Jensen Huang had been walking this earth as a businessman long before the world knew his name. His relationship with Korea begins here, and it begins on foot. According to domestic industry accounts from that era, Huang made repeated visits to Yongsan Electronics Market in Seoul in the late 1990s and early 2000s — when Nvidia was still an obscure startup struggling to be taken seriously. He came not as a visiting dignitary but as a salesman: explaining graphics cards to shop owners, persuading assemblers, winning trust one transaction at a time. Huang himself has said his connection to Korea dates to 1996. He has spoken of how South Korea's explosion of high-speed internet, its PC-bang culture, and the nationwide fever for StarCraft formed a critical foundation for Nvidia's early growth. Korea, in those years, was the world's most electrified laboratory for digital culture — and the heat of its gaming rooms, the sharpness of its consumers, the velocity with which it embraced new technology, all of it nourished a company that had not yet found its footing. This detail matters enormously. The histories of great corporations are often rewritten to begin in gleaming boardrooms or on famous stages. But Jensen Huang's formation happened in narrow storefronts, surrounded by towers of component boxes, in a market where customers were price-sensitive and performance-obsessed and utterly unimpressed by brand mythology. In Yongsan, he did not sell a brand. He sold credibility. He sold product knowledge. He sold the felt experience of superior performance. The I Ching offers an image for this season of a man's life: 潛龍勿用 — "the hidden dragon does not yet act." The dragon submerged beneath the water has not yet ascended to the sky, but it is already gathering strength, already orienting itself toward its direction. Korea was that submerged time for Jensen Huang. It was where the dragon went quiet and grew. 枯 — The Austere: The Discipline of Withholding Austerity is not poverty. It is restraint. And few companies in the history of Silicon Valley have practiced restraint as rigorously or as consequentially as Nvidia. While its competitors raced to win the surface war — chasing specification numbers, upgrading the cosmetics of their products, playing to the gallery of consumer benchmarks — Huang kept his organization's attention trained on something less visible and far more consequential: the underlying architecture of computation, the logic of parallel processing, the infrastructure that would eventually become the indispensable engine of artificial intelligence. This is the aesthetic the Chinese literati call 枯淡 — a beauty that comes not from ornament but from essence. The Diamond Sutra puts it this way: 凡所有相 皆是虛妄 — "all that has form is ultimately illusion." In business terms: what catches the eye rarely determines a company's fate. What determines fate is the capability that cannot be seen. Nvidia understood this early. That is why the Nvidia of today rests not on the appearance of its products but on the depth of its software ecosystem, its developer base, and the intellectual architecture that competitors cannot easily replicate. This philosophy of austerity extends to Huang's understanding of human character. Speaking at Stanford, he told students that the most important trait for success is not intelligence but resilience — and went further, saying, "I hope you will have the experience of suffering and hardship." It is a startling thing to say, and deliberately so. His point is unambiguous: greatness is not the product of cleverness alone. Character is forged not in comfort but in friction. Huang speaks from experience. He has publicly described being bullied in an American boarding school as a boy, washing dishes and cleaning bathrooms at minimum wage. His philosophy of hardship is not rhetoric. It is autobiography. Most organizations today speak to their people endlessly about well-being and are afraid to speak about tempering. But Jensen Huang did not flinch from the uncomfortable truth: growth always requires some degree of resistance and endurance. He knows this in his body. 孤 — The Solitary: The Courage of the Unfashionable Conviction Solitude, properly understood, is not the condition of being alone. It is the willingness to choose a road that others have not taken — and to walk it long enough to find out whether you were right. Nvidia was, for a very long time, a company that received no particular applause. It was known as a graphics chip company, and in that category, it was formidable. But inside that public identity, Huang carried a private and lonely conviction: that the dominant paradigm of computing would shift — that the age of the general-purpose CPU would eventually yield to an age of accelerated computing. Markets demand the present moment. Leaders sometimes have to absorb today's contempt in exchange for tomorrow's vindication. Only those who sustain that solitude earn the right to the rewards of early arrival. The Analects of Confucius puts it plainly: 德不孤 必有隣 — "virtue is never truly alone; it will always find its neighbors." What appears solitary and eccentric at the beginning eventually draws its community. And in the story of Nvidia and Korea, this movement from isolation to alliance is almost perfectly illustrated. The partnership between Huang and South Korea has long since outgrown its origins in retail sales. SK Hynix began collaborating with Nvidia on High Bandwidth Memory in the uncertain early days of that technology — a bet made before the outcome was clear. That relationship has since deepened into something that resembles co-development more than supply chain. Nvidia has been advancing large-scale AI chip supply and infrastructure cooperation with the Korean government, Samsung, the SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver. The lonely salesman who once walked the aisles of Yongsan is now at the table with the leaders of Korean industry and government, shaping the architecture of the nation's AI future. The solitary vigil became a strategic alliance. What was once walked alone is now walked together. 高 — The Elevated: Altitude as Accountability Elevation is not merely position. It is character — the capacity to see farther and to hold responsibility longer than others can or will. The Doctrine of the Mean speaks of 至誠無息 — "true sincerity never rests." This is, unexpectedly, one of the most precise descriptions of how Jensen Huang has run his company. He did not build Nvidia on a passing fashion. He crossed product failures, market cynicism, supply chain crises, and geopolitical headwinds, and climbed — slowly, deliberately, one foothold at a time — to the position the company occupies today. This is not a mountain ascended in a season. This is a summit reached in decades. Here, again, Korea re-enters the story. However regal the title "emperor of the AI era" may sound, the circuitry running through that crown is substantially Korean. Korea began as the consumption frontier — the PC-bang, the gaming market, the early adopter culture that gave Nvidia its first mass foothold. It has since become the strategic frontier: the partner in HBM and advanced memory, the co-architect of AI factories and digital transformation. Between the image of Jensen Huang persuading shop owners in Yongsan and the image of Jensen Huang discussing AI infrastructure with the heads of Korea's largest conglomerates, there runs a very long river. But the river is unbroken. What he first saw in Korea was not merely a sales opportunity. He saw a society with an extraordinary capacity for fast technical comprehension, for organizing technology into industry, for connecting the work of the mind to the work of the factory floor. That insight lives inside every partnership he has built here since. A Reckoning for Korean Business What, then, should Korean business leaders take from this? The lesson is not complicated, though it is demanding. Innovation does not arise from eloquent mission statements. It arises from time endured, from the discipline to discard the inessential, from the independence to pursue an unpopular answer, and from the accountability that eventually transforms all of it into something worthy of the word dignity. Jensen Huang's career is not a story of a man who happened to catch the AI wave at the right moment. It is a story of sediment — of years and decades of experience, discipline, and conviction accumulating until they were precisely aligned with the door that history opened. Which asks certain questions of Korean business. Do we still carry the original instinct of those years when we wrestled with the market on the ground floor — when we had no reputation to trade on, only our knowledge and our reliability? Do we have the austere courage to strip away what is not essential? Do we have the nerve to choose the lonely right answer over the popular wrong one? Management, at its best, is completed in the love of people, in the respect for the work done in the field, and in the refusal to defy the logic of time and nature. The tree that grows too fast is hollow at its core. The success that comes too easily has shallow roots. Nvidia — Jensen Huang's Nvidia — took the opposite path. It stood like an ancient tree, silent and unhurried, enduring the winds and the droughts, growing upward alone toward the high place it had decided, long ago, to reach. His success, for that reason, is not a flash of light. It is light that stays. That is the lesson of 古枯孤高. Only those who have endured long enough ascend high enough. Only those who have passed through austerity reach genuine depth. Only those who have borne solitude long enough find themselves, one day, at the center of their age. Jensen Huang's Korean story is one essential thread in that larger narrative. Today's glory is conceived in yesterday's alleyways. Even the history of the world's most powerful technology company is completed, in the end, only on the accumulated sweat and trust of human beings. He is demonstrating that, quietly, every day. The author is a contributing columnist covering business philosophy, technology, and economic history.
2026-04-22 11:57:23
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