The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) said on the 19th that Amkor Technology, a global semiconductor corporations, has begun a 270 billion won investment in Korea.
Amkor Technology Korea (hereinafter Amkor Korea) held a "Songdo plant test building groundbreaking ceremony" in Songdo, Incheon, on the day. From the government, Kang Gam-chan, Deputy Minister for trade and investment at the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI), attended the event.
Amkor Technology is a corporations that grew from "Anam Industrial," which entered the semiconductor business in 1968 as the first in the Republic of Korea. During the 1997 foreign exchange crisis, it overcame the crisis by attracting U.S. investment and rose to become a global specialized semiconductor packaging and test corporations.
Semiconductor packaging is a process that creates a structure for external circuit consolidation for chips cut from wafers and seals them with resin or ceramic. Semiconductor testing is a procedure that verifies whether wafers and packages operate electrically in a normal manner.
Amkor Korea is pushing to build three production lines and related equipment in Songdo and plans to secure full-scale mass production and testing technologies for AI semiconductor packaging. It also plans to expand cooperation with domestic semiconductor materials, parts, and equipment corporations to help strengthen the domestic AI Semiconductor ecosystem.
This groundbreaking is the first case of an investment plan materializing from the "global investment corporations partnership" event held on the 29th of last month on the occasion of the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Amkor Korea plans to link this expansion of Songdo facilities with future investment in the Gwangju packaging plant, contributing to balanced regional development.
Deputy Minister Kang said, "We expect this investment to serve as a starting signal that leads other global corporations to expand their investment in Korea," and added, "We will support the investment plans of global corporations attracted on the occasion of APEC so they proceed without a hitch by expanding cash support, strengthening location and tax benefits, and improving regulations."