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It will be one year tomorrow (31st) for Japan to regulate exports for three key materials for semiconductors and displays. It turned out how weak Korea is as a manufacturing powerhouse, and over the past year, companies have been trying to localize what they depended on for imports. In a recent survey, 68.5% of companies that deal with Japan still import materials, parts and equipment into Japan. Replied that it depends.

Reporter Labor Gyu pointed out how to look at, and how much the localization efforts can be evaluated.

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It is a high-purity hydrogen fluoride gas for semiconductor manufacturing, which has been mass-produced by a large domestic company.

It is a so-called'five nine' product with a purity of 99.999%, which is less than the quality of the Japanese ultra-high purity'twelve nine', but is expected to be put into the production process of some companies.

[Park Ji-hoon/Director of SK Materials' Public Relations Team: (Japan export regulation) was a little faster, but in the process, the government applied various'fast tracks' to help speed up various regulations. Done.]

General hydrogen fluoride, that is, a product made by Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises by Chinese SMEs is already used in semiconductor and display manufacturing sites.

This year, the effect of localization is confirmed even though imports of hydrogen fluoride from Japan fell 86% from the same period last year.

On the other hand, another regulated item, photoresist and fluorine polyimide, increased imports from Japan a year ago as exports continued.


[Bakjaegeun / Korea Semiconductor Display Technology President of the society: to actively recognize the need in the semiconductor and display makers dwaetgo progress the localization and supplier diversification at the same time, was the result aroused the really sleep Dunn domestic materials, components and equipment manufacturers]

2 The company, which is developing materials used for rechargeable batteries, has accelerated commercialization thanks to government support.

[Lee Dong-hoon/Chemtros CEO: (Export regulation in Japan) Prior to this, it was not easy to develop the original technology, and it was very difficult to obtain an evaluation opportunity equivalent to that of advanced products (from large companies). The environment has changed due to very good conditions.]

However, there are still a lot of items that Japan can arbitrarily control for export at any time, except for the white list.

It is a cold reality that we have minimized the damage in the past year's struggle and have to prepare for further Japanese retaliation.

(Video coverage: Il-sang Han, Video editing: Jong-tae Kim, CG: Jin-hoe Choi and Jun-ho Lee)