SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s finance ministry said Monday it plans to skip a feasibility study on the plan to create the world’s largest semiconductor cluster south of Seoul, in line with efforts to speed up the recovery of the chip industry. The decision came amid the country’s sluggish exports, which fell [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will create the world’s largest semiconductor cluster in Yongin, located in the Seoul metropolitan area, by earmarking 300 trillion won (US$229.81 billion) as part of efforts to secure a competitive edge in the sector and to further the country’s economic growth momentum, the industry ministry said Wednesday. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, on Thursday unveiled a 1.2 trillion-won (US$1.05 billion) support plan for subcontracting firms and their R&D projects as it won approval for its plan to build a semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area. Under the project, valued at 120 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, on Wednesday won approval for its plan to build a semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area as the government decided to lift development regulations in the region. The update on the project, valued at 120 trillion won (US$136 billion) came [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Friday it will move to lift regulations to pave the way for the country’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc.’s to build a semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it plans to request the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it has officially expressed interest in creating a semiconductor cluster in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, about 50 kilometers south of Seoul. A special purpose company has submitted a letter of investment intent, for investing in Yongin, to the city’s [...]