Yongin City Develops 10 R&D Projects Across 4 Sectors for Semiconductor Materials, Parts, and Equipment

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Yongin City held the 'Second Yongin Semiconductor Industry Policy Council' on the 23rd in the video conference room at City Hall to explore support measures for semiconductor materials, parts, and equipment (hereafter SME) companies.

The meeting was attended by approximately 30 people, including Yongin Mayor Baek Kun-gi, Park Jae-geun, Chairman of the Korea Semiconductor Display Technology Society, Kim Jung-woong, CEO of Surplus Global, and related officials from relevant departments, academia, and companies.

During the meeting, project implementation plans were selected based on the results of the research service for 'Yongin Semiconductor Materials, Parts, and Equipment R&D; Project Discovery' completed in December of last year, and discussions were held to establish SME company support policies.

Specifically, the service analyzed the macroscopic environment in the semiconductor sector and major government and city semiconductor-related policies, and reviewed the technology needs of semiconductor materials, parts, and equipment companies in the city and their differentiation from similar projects and facilities.

Through this, discussions were held on the direction of deriving and establishing 10 detailed project implementation plans across 4 sectors including SME R&D; support and demonstration infrastructure construction, excellent talent cultivation, and advancement of industry-academia-research-government cooperation ecosystem.

At this meeting, Mayor Baek emphasized, "For the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster to play its proper role as the central axis of the K-Semiconductor Belt, we must enhance the competitiveness of small, medium, and large enterprises and establish various support measures for component localization."

He continued, "We will make efforts to continually listen to the opinions of experts and companies and establish policies that will be of practical help."

Park Jae-geun, Chairman of the Korea Semiconductor Display Technology Society, said, "To support SME R&D; and construct infrastructure, it is necessary to establish sustainable plans through preparation of city-specialized support measures and policy legislation."

An Ki-hyun, Executive Vice President of the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, said, "In addition to city support, establishing measures that can induce voluntary participation of companies will be particularly important to ecosystem building."

The city decided to collect various opinions presented that day and reflect them in the city's SME company support policies.

Meanwhile, the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster is being developed as an industrial complex with a scale of approximately 1.26 million pyeong in the Dokseong-ri area of Wongsam-myeon, Cheoein-gu, to house SK Hynix's next-generation memory production facility and approximately 50 SME companies.

In February of last year, the government designated this area as a 'SME specialized complex' and decided to begin full-scale development of the national materials, parts, and equipment industry, generating expectations for various national support to follow.