The ruling party in South Korea is seeking to relax financing regulations, and SK Hynix is expected to benefit from this.

The ruling party in South Korea is seeking to relax restrictions so that the chip manufacturer SK Hynix can more easily establish joint factories with external investors. This is one of the government's efforts to make South Korea a strong artificial intelligence country. Members of the South Korean Democratic Party led by President Lee Jae-myung proposed amending the current Advanced Technology Strategic Industries Act, which currently prohibits "subsidiaries of subsidiaries" from making such investments. If the amendment is passed, the chip manufacturer SK Hynix, as a subsidiary of SK Square, will be able to attract external capital for its new semiconductor factory as long as it retains at least 50% equity in the joint venture. This law primarily affects SK Hynix, which is the leading developer of high-bandwidth memory for NVIDIA AI processors.