Advanced Talent for System Semiconductors to Be Trained Starting in the Second Half of the Year

[Asia Economy Reporter Junho Hwang] From this year until 2026, with an investment of 48 billion KRW, the Seoul National University System Semiconductor Convergence Professional Workforce Training Center, one of the institutions executing the Convergence Professional Workforce Project aimed at nurturing high-level talent in promising system semiconductor fields, was inaugurated on the 17th.

This project is a representative workforce training initiative newly launched this year to secure competitiveness in system semiconductors. Jeong Byeong-seon, the 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and ICT, attended the opening ceremony and held a meeting to discuss the development direction of system semiconductors.

Vice Minister Jeong stated, "To leap from a memory semiconductor powerhouse to a comprehensive semiconductor powerhouse, the most important role of the government is to expand the weak domestic semiconductor workforce base through continuous support for workforce training," and asked, "Please nurture students into specialists in the system semiconductor field through curricula that consider the specific characteristics of each sector."

The three centers selected this time will begin recruiting new students from the fall semester this year. Each center aims to produce about 20 master's and 10 doctoral specialized personnel annually.

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