Yongin City "Semes 'Giheung Future City Advanced Industrial Complex' Plan to Be Approved Next Month"

Samsung Affiliate's Largest Domestic Semiconductor Equipment Company
Technology Development Center on 94,400㎡ Site in Gomae-dong

Construction of the Yongin Technology Center by Semes Co., Ltd., the largest domestic semiconductor equipment company affiliated with Samsung, is gaining momentum.

Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, announced on the 20th that it plans to give final approval next month for the 'Giheung Future City Advanced Industrial Complex' project, which Semes is developing on a 94,399㎡ site in Gomae-dong, Giheung-gu, 764 area.

Semes is a comprehensive semiconductor equipment company affiliated with Samsung, producing equipment essential for semiconductor processes such as cleaning, inspection, and transfer. As of the end of last year, it recorded sales of 2.5155 trillion KRW and an operating profit of 66.7 billion KRW.

The city plans to complete the remaining administrative procedures, including consultations with relevant departments this month, after Semes’ industrial complex plan conditionally passed the Gyeonggi Province local industrial complex plan review in April and the provincial local industrial complex plan subcommittee review last month, and then officially approve and announce the industrial complex plan in July.

Semes plans to invest 255.6 billion KRW in the industrial complex to build a 20-story technology development center by 2026. Semes also intends to contribute to the public by installing citizen convenience facilities around the nearby Giheung Lake Park during the industrial complex development process.

Previously, through a letter of intent, Semes projected that the industrial complex development would create about 4,200 jobs and generate an economic ripple effect of 1.65 trillion KRW.

Meanwhile, semiconductor-related companies are increasingly moving to Yongin with the development of the 'Yongin Semiconductor Cluster' in Wonsam-myeon, Cheoin-gu, and the 'Yongin Advanced System Semiconductor National Industrial Complex' in Idong and Namsa-eup.

Global semiconductor equipment company Lam Research, which operates an R&D center in the Jigok Industrial Complex in Giheung-gu, Yongin, plans to relocate its Korean headquarters in Pangyo to the Jigok Industrial Complex in the second half of the year. Tokyo Electron Korea, the Korean branch of Tokyo Electron, one of the world's top four semiconductor equipment companies, has decided to build a new R&D center in the Wonsam General Industrial Complex.

The city stated that the number of semiconductor-related companies wishing to relocate or establish headquarters or factories in Yongin continues to increase due to the development of the advanced system semiconductor industrial complex and the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster.

Lee Sang-il, mayor of Yongin, said, "We will continue to provide administrative support so that good companies wishing to settle in Yongin do not face any inconvenience."

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