The Korean government is pushing for ways to ensure that state-of-the-art technology, including display and battery technology, is newly designated by the end of the year, so that it must be approved or approved by the government. However, the approval or approval process is another regulation that prevents the on-time export of our products in the fast-changing high-tech market, and it is pointing out that it will catch the backbone of future food industry.

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy announced on November 14 that it will open the Industrial Technology Protection Committee and designate core technology equipment such as semiconductor atomic layer stacking equipment, core plant equipment such as display vaporizer, and rechargeable batteries.

The government decided to design and manufacture OLED panels at the end of last year, process and manufacturing technologies for LCDs (LCDs) and OLED panels of 8th generation (2200 × 2500㎜). It is planned to be designated as the core technology of the country. By the end of the year, it plans to expand core technologies to all fields of electricity and electronics to prevent technology leakage. However, domestic affiliates argue that if they have to approve or approve government approvals or permits every time they export semiconductors, display products, equipment and parts, they will block the way to timely export to emerging markets such as China and India.

Earlier, the industrial division braked that LG Display had invested in OLED equipment in China, and it was only four months before the government approvals. However, there is still no approval. It is easy to lose a leading position in a scary competitive company if the investment period is missed in the case of high-tech industries such as semiconductors and displays. This is why the industry is keen to catch up with technology spending and miss the export time of core industries.

"The key technology is already owned by overseas dinosaurs such as ATMT, Japan TEL, and Netherlands ASML, and if domestic producers stop exporting, market competitiveness will decline," said a representative of a display equipment manufacturer. "Of course, the next five years, domestic manufacturing companies will be able to buy overseas equipment unconditionally," he said.

Emerging economies such as China and India are spending huge sums of money on semiconductor and display equipment investment.

Experts say most ICT hardware products, including memory semiconductors and liquid crystal displays (LCDs), will be in the top position in emerging markets over the next decade. In the long run, semiconductor and display core equipment, Materials and supplies to the future industry. An official from a large domestic company said, "I admit that the government is increasing the domestic investment and jobs and protecting the key technology outflows abroad," he said. "However, while promoting industry dominance in the world market and we need to develop a strategy and encourage high-end industrial products to export faster."

Already, companies are making efforts to prevent leakage of core technologies by signing their own confidentiality agreements and prohibiting exclusivity and duality. It is pointed out that not only government departments but also the National Intelligence Service are running preventive systems such as blocking the export of core technology to the country.

The Ministry of Industry stated, "The revision of the core technology list is one of the most common practices every year," he said. "We will designate it as a core technology when it is judged that there is a need to prevent leakage of technology and it is not intended to restrict foreign companies` entry into the world or exporting."

By Kim Eun silverkim@


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