Kim Yong-beom: "Major Investment" to Be Announced at National Report Meeting... "The Numbers Will Be Unfamiliar"

Kim Yong-beom, Chief of Staff for Policy at the Presidential Office, has signaled that large-scale domestic investment plans by corporations will be announced at a national report meeting presided over by President Lee Jae-myung on the 29th.
Appearing on the YouTube channel "Kim Ou-joon's Humility is Hard News Factory" today (June 26), Kim said regarding the event on the 29th, "It is an occasion to explain programs created through the joint efforts of the government and businesses," adding, "The numbers that will be presented will be very unfamiliar."
Kim explained, "The plans cover three major areas: semiconductors, the construction of massive gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data centers (DC), and physical AI and robotics," and added, "Because the scale is so vast, it seems likely that intense debate will ensue, starting with questions about whether this is even real."
He further added, "Some might say that the government is squeezing these companies to make this happen, but the (investment entities) are world-leading companies. They are not companies that can be squeezed," noting that "we will hold a series of report meetings in different regions."
On the 29th, President Lee will preside over the "National Report Meeting on the Three Major Mega-Projects for South Korea's Great Leap Forward" at the Blue House.
It is reported that investment plans for the Honam and Chungcheong regions by companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, including the creation of a semiconductor cluster in the Honam region, are scheduled to be unveiled at the event.
President Lee invited Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong to the Blue House the previous day for a meeting that lasted about an hour, and it is believed that discussions regarding regional investments took place during that meeting as well.
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.