Jeonnam Gwangju Semiconductor Forum “We must stop disparaging the Honam semiconductor industrial complex”

The Jeonnam Gwangju Semiconductor Forum issued a statement on the 11th and called for an end to criticism from the political circles and some media surrounding the creation of a national semiconductor industrial complex in the Honam area and the administrative integration of Jeonnam Gwangju, calling it a "distortion of facts and a double standard."

In response to the criticism that there was a lack of detailed basis for calculating the 6 trillion won in semiconductor support, the forum refuted that it was a normal administrative procedure, saying, "In the past, integrated local government support or local extinction response funds also first decided on the total amount and then evaluated the detailed plan and distributed it."

Regarding the controversy over the expertise of some private members of the Government Integration Support Committee, he argued, "The committee is not a technical review body, but a general organization that reviews overall administration and finances," and the entire project should not be devalued based on the resumes of some members alone.

Regarding concerns about water shortage in the semiconductor industrial complex, he pointed out, "Sewage reuse is a measure that is also used in semiconductor clusters in other regions," and "it is unfair to use this as the basis for water shortage only in Honam."

Yang Jin-seok, forum chairman, emphasized, “Regional self-rescue efforts and incentives for administrative integration to prevent the crisis of local extinction should not be degenerated into tools of political battle.”