Headline, August 05 2026/ EDUCATION : ''' SOUTH KOREA SOARS '''

EDUCATION :

''' SOUTH KOREA SOARS '''

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IN SOUTH KOREA - many, many students are all set studying for careers in the booming chip sector. South Korean high school offers a pipeline to very lucrative jobs, but uncertainty looms.

More students are flocking to university engineering programs affiliated with Samsung or SK Hynix rather than medical school, which has long been considered the pinnacle of academic achievement in South Korea.

Pathways into the companies' fabrication lines have become just no less competitive.

SIX FIGURE BONUSES : In South Korea many, many parents call Mr. Seo, the focus is on the job prospects at Samsung. and SK Hynix, the country's biggest beneficiaries of the semiconductor boom.

Samsung, despite its reputation for smartphones and television, now generates most of its profits from chips. Industry analysts project the company to finish the year with an operating profit of around $200 billion, a sevenfold increase from last year. SK Hynix has been on an equally remarkable run.

Landing a job at either company is spoken of almost like winning the lottery because both firms have union agreements that tie bonuses to operating profits.

Under the latest deal with Samsung's union, employees in its semiconductor unit, including assembly-line operators, could receive up to $400,000 next year if profit targets are met.

At Chungbuk, Ms. Kang, the teacher said only students ranked in the top third of their class would be considered by Samsung, while SK Hynix considered only the top quarter.

Beyond grasping the intricacies of chip manufacturing, top students expected to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language, earn at least three technical certifications and complete 25 book reports.

Each year, about 20 high-achieving freshmen are recruited directly by Samsung or SK Hynix through scholarship programs that include internships and lead to full-time employment.

Everyone enters an intensely competitive nationwide recruitment process involving exams and interviews.

'' Students study for those tests from 9 in the morning to 9 at night, for a month straight,'' Ms. Kang said.

In recent months, graduates who successfully navigated this gauntlet have returned to campus bearing stories of six figure bonuses.

For the teachers, such visits can evoke a complicated mix of admiration, deflation and envy. Mr Seo, the principal said.

As part of a nationwide effort to secure South Korea's future chip-making force, the government plans to open another semiconductor master high school in Seoul next year. Another school is also under consideration.

Samsung and SK Hynix are building or planning new semiconductor plants in Yongin, a city south of Seoul, where the government has pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to create what it hopes will become the world's largest chip manufacturing hub.

Last year, Samsung group, South Korea's largest employer, pledged to hire 60,000 workers over the next five years, though it did not specify how many would join its semiconductor division.

Chey Tae-won, the chairman of SK Hynix, said the company could generate as many as 20,000 jobs annually.

Some experts are skeptical.

'' Even with these big projects, I expect the overall number of jobs will actually decrease, '' Mr. Joo Won, an economist at the Hyundai Research Institute said.

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