Yongin Mayor Lee Sang-il: "Will Create Global Hub City Through Semiconductor Highway and Other Projects"

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] Yongin City is strengthening infrastructure including the construction of a semiconductor highway to advance as a global semiconductor hub city. Additionally, the city is promoting the establishment of high schools specializing in semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) education.

Yongin Special City Mayor Lee Sang-il explained these plans at a briefing session held at the Convention Hall on the 3rd floor of City Hall on the 11th, saying "One of the directions for the city administration of the 8th popularly elected term is to create a world-class semiconductor hub city" and "I will lay the groundwork within my four-year tenure."

The semiconductor highway aims to connect the two pillars represented by SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics.

The goal is to complete the foundation through the semiconductor highway so that semiconductor companies can move into and invest more in Yongin.

The mayor has already met with Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon to request necessary support for this.

The mayor stated, "Extension of the Gyeonggang Line is also one of the promotion strategies for growth as a semiconductor specialized city" and "I will actively push forward with it as it is included in the presidential pledge."

To nurture semiconductor workforce, the city presented plans including the establishment of a semiconductor high school, establishing semiconductor-related departments at local universities, and operating programs through contracts with semiconductor companies.

The mayor explained the background, saying "Workforce development at the center of the semiconductor industry is a necessary competitiveness."

Meanwhile, Yongin City is currently promoting the development of a next-generation memory semiconductor production base, the 'Semiconductor Cluster' industrial complex, with an area of 4.15 million square meters in the Wonsam-myeon area of Cheoin-gu.

In addition to SK Hynix, some 50 small and medium-sized enterprises in materials, parts, and equipment (SME) are scheduled to move in.