Lee Jun-hyuk, CEO of Dongjin Semichem, Selected for Korea World-Class Entrepreneur Award

The World Class Enterprise Association announced on the 30th that Lee Jun-hyuk, CEO of Dongjin Semichem and chairman of the World Class Enterprise Association, received the Grand Prize at the 'Korea World Class Entrepreneur Award' ceremony hosted by the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration held at Lotte Hotel on the 27th.

The Korean Academic Society of Business Administration, established in 1956, is the largest academic organization in Korea and holds an annual autumn academic conference and Hall of Fame induction ceremony. At this event, it also awards entrepreneurs of small but strong companies who have demonstrated outstanding achievements domestically and internationally to promote sound entrepreneurial spirit.

Until last year, the award ceremony was held under the name 'Small and Strong Entrepreneur Award,' but from this year, the name was changed to the 'Korea World Class Entrepreneur Award,' given to entrepreneurs among the World Class Enterprise Association member companies who have received the highest evaluations and shown remarkable performance both domestically and internationally.

For over 40 years, the ceremony has been held for companies leading domestic and international industries. Now, it also recognizes the will and potential for growth into global companies. It is evaluated to have greater significance in focusing on 'World Class Enterprises,' a premium group of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Lee Jun-hyuk, CEO of Dongjin Semichem, who was selected as the inaugural recipient, received the Grand Prize in recognition of his efforts and contributions to the localization of semiconductor material equipment in Korea.

Since its founding in 1967, Dongjin Semichem has grown into a specialized company in the field of precision chemical materials for semiconductors and displays in Korea. In particular, starting with the semiconductor encapsulant business, it entered the semiconductor process materials business and succeeded in localizing semiconductor photoresist in 1989, becoming the fourth in the world and the first in Korea to do so.

The display business, which had relied on Japanese and global companies for most of its chemical material core technologies, also began in 1991 and succeeded in localizing LCD process photoresist and strippers sequentially, innovatively improving the manufacturing cost of displays.

Dongjin Semichem, selected as a 'SoBuJang (Materials, Parts, and Equipment) Leading Company,' specialized in core strategic technologies of the materials, parts, and equipment industry, presents a blueprint to continuously create an innovative future for Korea's foundational industries.

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