Government Selects Honam Semiconductor Site and Accelerates Yongin Infrastructure
At a meeting chaired by President Lee Jae-myung, the government selected the Gwangju military airport site for the Honam semiconductor complex and decided to accelerate power, water and other infrastructure schedules for the Yongin cluster.
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South Korea's Semiconductor Cluster Power Grid Buildout and Debate over Grid Investment Financing
This issue tracks South Korea's effort to build power-grid infrastructure for its rapidly expanding semiconductor clusters and secure the financing required for those investments. It follows the inclusion of large semiconductor loads in Korea Electric Power Corporation's long-term transmission plan, power-supply agreements for the Yongin and Honam clusters, the exemption of Honam grid infrastructure from preliminary feasibility review, and Korea Electric Power Corporation's proposal for Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to prepay 25 trillion won in future electricity bills as a potential source of grid-investment funding.
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