"This is the Republic of Korea?" "It's huge." The world's largest semiconductor city was born, and even traffic was false.

YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: November 11, 2024 (Mon)
□ Host: Announcer Lee Hyun-woong
□ Cast: Lee Sang-il, Yongin Special Market

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◆ Announcer Lee Hyun-woong (hereinafter referred to as Lee Hyun-woong): Following the wise radio life, it's time for an issue invitation. A very nice face came to my wise radio life today. Lee Sang-il came directly to Yongin Special Market Studio. Hello, manager.

◇Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin Special Cases (hereinafter referred to as Lee Sang-il): Yes, hello. Nice to meet you. It's been a long time since I saw you.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Nice to meet you. I think it's been about a year, and our wise radio listeners have been doing it for almost half a year since last June. I'm sure there are a lot of people who are very happy to see you, so please say hello.

◇Lee Sang-il: It's been a long time since I've seen you through a wise radio life. There are a lot of things going on in Yongin, and I couldn't greet you like this often because I was trying to do it. Yongin is leading a lot of change and development now. Please pay a lot of attention to it.

◆Lee Hyun-woong: Yongin's change is so fast, so wouldn't the mayor have time to rest?

◇ Lee Sang-il: Personally, I invited you last weekend, Saturday, and Sunday. On the previous weekend, I couldn't rest on Saturdays and Sundays, so there were many events for various groups, sports competitions, and inauguration ceremonies for some heads of groups. This is how the market must appear. There are a lot of demands like this. I'm doing my best to go and say hello. A few days ago, a concert was held on the weekend, and we sang an Italian song and communicated like that.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Did you sing, too?

◇ Lee Sang-il: I have to live up to everything I ask, so if you tell me to sing, I'll do it again. So, I like opera aria musical, our songs, and foreign songs. A few days ago, it's Saturday. I sang a song called Idea of the Italian composer Tosti.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I see. I see. If you look it up, there's a video, right?

◇ Lee Sang-il: He probably didn't film the video.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Then if the time allows, I'll ask you about important issues first and if it allows, I'll request a song at the end. I thought a lot about what to talk about first. Yongin Special City has a lot of changes, is fast, and moves a lot in a future-oriented way. As a result, I'm sure many of our listeners remember the semiconductor cluster, so I'll ask you this first. How's the progress going now?

◇Lee Sang-il: Yes, a super-large semiconductor project is underway in Yongin. There are three in progress. One is Samsung Electronics' 100-year budget of 360 trillion won announced in March last year. There was an announcement that the high-tech system semiconductor national industrial complex will now be created in 2.2 million pyeong of Dong-dong and Namsa-eup, Yongin. Because speed is the life of semiconductors right now, we are speeding up a lot with the government. So, there was a preliminary feasibility study exemption for electricity water after the preliminary feasibility study exemption for the site. The four lanes of National Route 45 passing through them will be expanded to eight lanes, and preliminary feasibility studies have been exempted. The national industrial complex approval plan was planned like this next spring, but when the national industrial complex is approved within this year, compensation migration measures will be established and construction will be prepared. SK Hynix has been proceeding in the form of a general corporate industrial complex first. So, huge civil engineering work is underway, and a large project is underway in which 1.26 million pyeong of SK Hynix invests 122 trillion won on three sides, and we are making considerable progress now. Next spring, we will begin construction of the first tab. To do that, the water supply is now under construction, so about 40% of it is under way. And about 81 percent of the construction for power supply was carried out. So, SK Hynix will have 4 fabs and 50 semiconductor material and parts equipment companies. Samsung Electronics' National Industrial Complex has six fabs, a production line. More than 150 materials and parts equipment design companies will be included in it. Another project is underway to invest 20 trillion won to further develop Samsung Electronics' Yongin Giheung Campus, which was the first semiconductor in Korea 41 years ago, into a future research complex. So, when all these projects are completed, Yongin Special City will have the largest semiconductor ecosystem in the world as a single city. A total of 502 trillion won is now invested in Yongin.

◆Lee Hyun-woong: How many years will it take for all the images you're drawing in your head to be completed?

◇ Lee Sang-il: It will take about 20 years. However, the government and businesses are now in the position of speeding up, and local governments are providing administrative support as quickly as possible.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: In order for the cluster you mentioned to be completed well and also for housing, the most important thing is transportation. I heard that Dongbaek IC will be newly established. What is it about?

◇Lee Sang-il: It was the wish of the citizens of Dongbaek-dong and Guseong-gu, Gwon-gu. What I've been hoping for for about a decade is that last year, Ham Jin-kyu, president of the Korea Expressway Corporation, went to Gimcheon to visit him in person, and the Korea Expressway Corporation and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport have been making progress on this work. So, the approval of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport was recently made. We started the business in 2027 and aim to open it in 2029. Currently, citizens of Dongbaek in Yongin will go about 14km and ride at a place called Masung IC to ride the Yeongdong Expressway. But it's because Dongbaek IC will be newly established half the distance. Transportation convenience is much improved and the time to ride the Yeongdong Expressway through IC is reduced by about half. The budget is supposed to be paid about 113.7 billion won because of the dispute. However, there is an old police station site in the constituent area near Dongbaek. The police force was in Yongin and moved. The problem of developing 270,000 pyeong of the site has actually been drifting for eight years. The Korea Land and Housing Corporation has a site, so we discussed it with LH Korea Land and Housing Corporation and agreed on the site of the police force. So LH decided to pay 29.5% for opening Dongbaek IC. So, it's about 33.6 billion won. The city's burden was relieved, and LH developed the police station site there, and some new roads were expanded, making transportation convenience much better.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I see. At the same time, the old passage of the Gyeongbu Underground Expressway and the expansion project mentioned before National Route 45 are all being promoted, and the citizens are really looking forward to how much traffic will develop.

◇ Lee Sang-il: Citizens are looking forward to it, right? Yongin Transportation has different traffic conditions from local governments to local governments, but there were still quite a few things that were lacking, but we are doing our best to expand the transportation network, and as you said, the Gyeongbu Expressway is 26km from Yongin Giheung IC to Yangjae, Seoul. This section has an existing highway on the ground and a highway underground. So, there is a highway from four lanes to six lanes, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance is now conducting a preliminary feasibility study, and since it passed, the project will now proceed in earnest. So, I'm looking forward to the completion of this project as the congestion on the Gyeongbu Expressway will be eased a lot, but National Route 45 is Yongin's engine road. Currently, the four-lane road is a little blocked during commuting, but it's a road passing through the National Industrial Complex. In addition, the new semiconductor city in Idong-eup was announced in November last year, and 38,000 people from 16,000 households live. Since it's a 690,000 pyeong road, we need to expand it as soon as possible. With this idea, I kept asking the government to exempt me from preliminary feasibility studies to expand the 12.7km section to eight lanes, and the government accepted it and carried it out. So the project to expand from four lanes to eight lanes has been accelerated by more than three years. The citizens like it a lot.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I see. I think it will be more developed in the future so that it can be tolerated if we start operating not only on the road but also on the Guseong Station GTX-A. And I heard that the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced the legislation of the Special Act on Support for Special Cases in October. What does this mean for Yongin Special City?

◇Lee Sang-il: On March 25, the Presidential People's Livelihood Debate was held at Yongin Special City Hall. In the process of preparing for it, a special city was launched in January 2022 in the Presidential Office and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security. In the past, local governments with a population of more than 1 million should go to metropolitan cities, but it takes a lot of time because metropolitan cities are still designated through special laws. So, it's like we're completely conducting metropolitan administrative affairs in special cities. We should provide good administrative services to more than 1 million citizens, but we have created a special city because we have not done well under the law that applies to local governments, but we have been given some special affairs to administer them more autonomously, but we have been talking about creating a special law to give the status of a special city a proper legal status and transfer various administrative affairs necessary for the special city, but it did not work well. However, the president expressed his will to enact a special law at the public welfare debate presided over by the president, and when I kept saying that, he accepted it. Since then, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security has actively moved, and the special cities are Yongin Suwon and Goyang Changwon. And next year, Mars will be a special city. I've been in constant talks with these cities to make legislation. Therefore, the framework of the bill has been created and submitted to the National Assembly, and it is very meaningful that the bill has now been prepared, but it is half a success for the special market. There's still a lot to be desired. It should be included in the bill, but 19 new special affairs have now been granted, and 35 special affairs can be carried out by integrating the existing 16 laws at once, but we need to have more autonomy and financial power. So we have a lot to fill. So in the future, we have to work harder on this.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I don't know if it will take some time, but I think it's being prepared one by one anyway.

◇ Lee Sang-il: Yes. It's a situation where we continue to make our position and observe one by one.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I'd like to say that there's something encouraging about it. I heard that our mayor is called the king of communication. I heard that you communicate with citizens a lot. You're giving a special lecture on talent donation.

◇ Lee Sang-il: I've given 59 special lectures for two years or three months since I became mayor. There are about 10 special lecture schedules in the future, but if you make a request, I will now accept them and make all the special lecture materials. So I don't ask our public officials to make it, and I like drawing, literature, and music. Originally, I majored in economics and worked as a political reporter in my career, but now I've studied all along in the past and I'm doing research and making with all the PT materials I've made in my spare time. So, I gave a special lecture on leadership, environmental, security, and I talked about Shakespeare's plays, inspiring each other in painting and music, and talking about the most expensive painting in the world, the most expensive painting in Korea, and so on.

◆Lee Hyun-woong: Where can I take such a special lecture?

◇ Lee Sang-il: If you request, YTN reporters can do it. And if a university, graduate school, or company that you received in the special lecture requests, you will receive a lecture fee. Public officials are not supposed to receive more than 600,000 won. So I donated all the lecture fees I received.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Also, it's 52 weeks a year after you donate that, so if you did 59 times in two years, you would have done it almost every two weeks, but you make your own data and it's amazing. Those who are watching on the visible radio right now must be very curious about the cute character that looks like the mayor in a way, so please introduce it.

◇ Lee Sang-il: Yes, our dragon uses a dragon. So, it's a character named Cho Ayong who made a dragon look this cute. So we're good at naming Cho-A-yong. Whatever the event, YTN radio. Wise radio life is good. Citizens of Yongin Special City love it. So a lot of character goods products are being sold right now, and Everland is willing to do it this year. We collaborated with Everland, and there's a product that Everland's Lesi and Cho A-yong collaborate with, and Pengsoo is famous. EBS Pengsoo and YouTube together, so our Cho A-yong character is being evaluated as the most popular among local governments nationwide.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I wear a lot of key rings these days. Do you have a smaller key ring?

◇ More than: There is. And children like it, and Woo Sang-hyuk belongs to Yongin Special City. I brought him here after I became the mayor, but when he goes to the Olympics and goes to the Diamond League track and field, he gives me this key ring for Cho-ah, and he likes the runners from other countries so much and asks for it again.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I see. I see. I think it would be nice if I could give you this as a gift. I'd appreciate it if you could come with 10 Jo-A-yong next time. We're running out of time. Lastly, please say what you want to say to Yongin citizens and listeners.

◇Lee Sang-il: There are many special citizens of Yongin who teach a lot of wisdom about the changes in Yongin. The mayor and city officials will communicate harder and actively review the citizens' good ideas so that they can develop Yongin together. Our wise radio listeners elsewhere should pay a lot of attention and affection to Yongin, and if you see any shortcomings while passing by Yongin, please contact the mayor's office anytime. Thank you.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Thank you. I'm so curious about the special lecture by text message right now, and I'm also getting a lot of supportive messages saying that the mayor of everything beauty is cool. That's all for today. Lee Sang-il was with Yongin Special Mayor. Thank you.

◇ This is all: Thank you.