Korea's W800tr chip bet depends on moving talent south

When the head of SK hynix spoke in Seoul on Monday about Korea's largest-ever semiconductor commitment, his first request to the government was not for money, land or power; it was for good schools. Without them, the chief executive Kwak Noh-jung warned, sending young engineers south could create "weekend couples," the Korean shorthand for families split by a distant job posting. Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have committed a combined 800 trillion won ($517 billion) to build four memory fabs