Leaders of the People Power Party visited the construction site of the Yongin semiconductor cluster on the 9th and directly criticized the ruling camp's push for a "transfer of the semiconductor cluster to Saemangeum."
People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok visited the SK hynix Yongin construction site that morning, held a roundtable, and criticized, "Recently, the Lee Jae-myung administration and the Democratic Party are making a reckless claim to move the Yongin semiconductor cluster to Saemangeum under the absurd pretext of ending insurrection."
Jang said, "If the many promises President Lee Jae-myung has made to invest in future industries were not empty words, the Democratic Party of Korea must immediately stop agitating over future growth engines just to win votes in local elections, and the president should make a firm stance clear," adding, "Shaking a strategic project with as much as 1,000 trillion won in investment by putting political greed first is unacceptable. It is no different from declaring the abandonment of Korea's semiconductor hegemony."
Yang Hyang-ja, a People Power Party supreme council member who served as an executive at Samsung Electronics, also said, "The government and the National Assembly must clearly back SK hynix's path forward through legislation and policy," while Supreme Council member Kim Min-su said, "The Democratic Party is unabashedly spouting vulgar talk that, as a way to end insurrection, the semiconductor cluster should be transferred to Honam. Because of politics, Korea's economy is regressing, and because of politics, the future is being eaten away."
At the roundtable, criticism also continued of the Blue House's explanation the previous day that "regional transfers are for corporations to decide." Yongin Mayor Lee Sang-il said, "Where is such irresponsible talk as the government not doing what it should and telling corporations to take care of it on their own? Is this the president's true intention? The president must now make a firm stance clear and end this confusion early."