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SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won visited a candidate site for the planned semiconductor cluster in the Honam region, including areas in Gwangju and South Jeolla Province, as the group weighs its role in the government-driven project.
Chey's visit took him to the Honam-area site under consideration for the semiconductor cluster, a project positioned as a major chip manufacturing hub outside the Seoul metropolitan area. Images published by Yonhap News and Newsis showed the chairman on site during the visit.
The Honam semiconductor cluster has been a flagship regional development initiative, with Gwangju and South Jeolla Province competing to host the facility. Local governments in the region have been actively courting major chipmakers, including Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, to anchor the cluster.
Chey chairs SK Group, whose semiconductor affiliate SK hynix is one of Korea's two leading memory chipmakers. The chairman's on-site inspection is expected to feed into the group's assessment of potential investment in the region, though no investment decision or specific commitment has been announced.
Details on the exact location visited and the timing of any follow-up decision were not disclosed. The visit adds to recent high-profile interest in the Honam cluster project, which the government has promoted as part of efforts to distribute semiconductor manufacturing capacity beyond the greater Seoul area.
The chairman's on-site visit to the Honam semiconductor cluster candidate location is true.
