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For us, electric vehicle batteries are attracting attention as the future food industry to succeed semiconductors. We have accumulated a lot of technology, and we are trying to get rid of the professional manpower by presenting more than three or four times the salary of Chinese companies seeking our technology.

Reporter Park Chan-keun

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This is a job posting in 2017 by Vadidi, a Chinese electric car manufacturer.

By procuring battery experts in Korea, we promise to support not only high salaries but also vehicles and lodging.

In July, we hired a large group of companies, offering three to four times the salary that other Chinese companies receive in Korea.

[A battery company official: China's attempts to remove such talent have continued, and there is no way to track one or all of them.]

There are also companies that promote battery technicians from LG Chem in Korea playing a big role in their company.

It is to repeat the method of finding the 'know-how' of technology and manufacturing process in the battery field by hiring key personnel in the domestic semiconductor industry.

[B Battery Makers: People are property. But his know-how and that kind of technology are going out of the competition or abroad at once.]

The global EV battery market, which amounted to 62 trillion won last year, is expected to grow to 196 trillion won, more than three times over five years later.

The battery industry is a sensitive issue in which technology is directly related to competitiveness, as domestic rivals LG and SK have filed a lawsuit against trade secret infringement due to labor leakage.

In particular, Chinese companies are also using shortcuts to work as a subsidiary to avoid lawsuits related to technology leaks.