"We will make efforts to see outbound shipments of semiconductors, the country's No. 1 export, reach $120 billion this year," Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Ahn Duk-geun said. "The new mega cluster's success will further spread to other parts of the nation and become the world's leading chip hub."
To whom can they sell? China was their biggest customer but now the USA is not letting South Korea sell to them. It's not like demand for raw chips magically spring up just because you make more of them.