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Semiconductor talent war enters new phase amid bonus disputes

South Korea’s competition for semiconductor talent is shifting as disputes over bonus calculations and union strikes raise engineers’ willingness to leave. Firms are vying to absorb designers, while some experienced hires face early rejections and are pushed toward graduate recruitment. Industry talk includes efforts to curb poaching, narrowing direct job moves. The shortage is structural: demand is set to rise from 177,000 in 2021 to 304,000 in 2031, with training taking years.

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Lam Research launches industry-academia-public program to train semiconductor talent

Lam Research has launched an industry-academia-public cooperation program in South Korea to train semiconductor process integration specialists. The U.S. chip equipment company is working with the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology. The course uses Lam Research\'s Semiverse Solutions simulation platform to provide virtual process training. It will run at least three times a year and aims to train about 100 people in its first year.