Jang Ji-eun, SK Hynix Vice President, Says at Government-Hosted Lecture "Diverse Talent Creates Innovative Companies"

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SK Hynix announced that Vice President Jang Ji-eun, head of DRAM mass production product design, gave a special lecture to female middle and high school students at the 'Girls in Engineering Week Lecture' held on the 2nd at Spigen Hall in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

Jang Ji-eun, Vice President in charge of DRAM mass production product design at SK Hynix, is giving a lecture at the Girls' Engineering Week seminar.
[Photo by SK Hynix]

The lecture was a flagship program of the 'Girls in Engineering Week: Engineering Girls Festival,' organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Foundation for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET). Vice President Jang took the podium as a representative female scientist and engineer in the semiconductor field and delivered a lecture titled "The Undisputed Leader in DRAM Design."

Vice President Jang's lecture was part of SK Hynix's management philosophy of 'DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) management activities.' She emphasized the importance of diversity during her talk. Vice President Jang stated, "Diversity is a very important factor in organizational composition and is essential for semiconductor technological innovation."

She stressed that to continuously produce female semiconductor experts, it is necessary to create an organizational culture that respects diversity and an environment that supports work and childcare simultaneously.

Vice President Jang said, "The most challenging part of building my career as a female engineer was balancing work and childcare," adding, "We must continue to strive to establish a culture that supports work-family balance."

She continued, "It is also important to respect the value of diversity," and added, "Pluralistic thinking based on diversity will transform existing paradigms, trigger innovation, and help produce excellent female leaders who will lead technological innovation."

The diversity emphasized by Vice President Jang corresponds to the 'M' in SK Hynix's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy framework 'PRISM,' established in 2022. PRISM is an acronym derived from the first letters of five words: social contribution, environmental restoration, innovation, coexistence, and motivation.

In this regard, SK Hynix has set goals to triple the proportion of female executives from 2021 levels by 2030 and to increase the proportion of female team leaders to 10% of the total. In June last year, the company also joined the United Nations (UN) Women’s Empowerment Principles endorsement.

Lee Se-young, team leader of SK Hynix’s ESG organization, said, "We are making efforts to root DEI culture throughout the company," adding, "In the second half of the year, we plan to continue developing related programs, including conducting training linked to SK Group’s education platform 'mySUNI.'"

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