Yongin Mayor Lee Sang-il will visit the Netherlands and Italy from October 27 to November 4. During this trip, he plans to discuss semiconductor cooperation at the headquarters of ASML and the STMicroelectronics fab.
The city of Yongin announced on the 27th that the purpose of this visit is to enhance international cooperation in the semiconductor industry and to explore collaboration on the construction and operation of the Yongin City Museum of Art.
Mayor Lee stated, "We will verify the technological capabilities of global semiconductor companies such as ASML and STMicroelectronics and seek a cooperative framework with the Yongin semiconductor cluster." He added, "We will also examine whether the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands and the Zuidasdok project can assist in Yongin's cultural and transportation policies."
The official schedule will begin on the morning of the 28th with a meeting with Mayor Marcel Delhez in Eindhoven, where ASML's headquarters is located. Following this, he will tour the Eindhoven High Tech Campus, the largest open innovation complex in Europe, home to over 300 companies, research institutions, and startups.
Mayor Lee plans to propose semiconductor cooperation during a meeting with Elko Brinkhof, CEO of the non-profit organization PhotonDelta, which oversees the Netherlands' photonics chip ecosystem. In the afternoon, he will hold discussions with Frédéric Schneider-Maunoury, Chief Operating Officer of ASML, and Choi Han-jong, CEO of ASML Korea, at ASML's headquarters.
On the 29th, he will meet with Hong Seok-in, the South Korean ambassador to the Netherlands, and discuss cooperation on the construction of the Yongin City Museum of Art with Martin Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis.
On the 30th, he will visit the Zuidas-Zuidasdok Information Center. The Zuidasdok is the largest national infrastructure project in the Netherlands, encompassing the undergrounding of highways and the expansion of the Amsterdam Zuid station into a multi-modal transport hub. Mayor Lee intends to explore ways to apply insights from this project to the construction of an underground section of the Gyeongbu Expressway and the Guseong Station transfer center, which spans 26.1 kilometers from Seoul to Yongin.
After concluding his schedule in the Netherlands, the delegation will move to Milan, Italy. On November 3, Mayor Lee plans to visit the STMicroelectronics fab located about 20 kilometers northeast of Milan in Agrate Brianza, where he will meet with Vice President Renato Martire and Country Manager Park Jun-sik before returning to Korea. STMicroelectronics is a semiconductor and electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Switzerland.
* This article has been translated by AI.
Copyright ⓒ Aju Press All rights reserved.