SEOUL, Oct 1 (Reuters) - OpenAI Chief Executive Sam

Altman on Wednesday plans to meet with South Korean President

Lee Jae Myung, who seeks to boost Asia's fourth-biggest economy

through a policy of boosting investment in artificial

intelligence, the presidential office has said.

The meeting will take place at the presidential office in

center Seoul at 6 p.m. (0900 GMT), the office said.

OpenAI this year set up its first office in Seoul and

appointed former Google official KyoungHoon Kim to lead the

operation, as demand in the country jumps for its ChatGPT

service.

South Korea has the largest number of paying ChatGPT

subscribers after the United States, according to OpenAI.

During his visit to Seoul, Altman is also expected to meet

with leaders of South Korea's chipmakers - Samsung Electronics ( SSNLF )

and SK Hynix ( HXSCF ), which make advanced memory

chips used in AI data centers, media reports said.

At the White House in January, U.S. President Donald Trump

announced the "Stargate" AI infrastructure project that would

cost half a trillion dollars and be developed by OpenAI and its

partners. including SoftBank and Oracle.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) said last week that it will invest up to

$100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data center chips.

Earlier this year, OpenAI said it would develop AI products

for South Korea with South Korea's dominant chat app operator

Kakao.