00:00Samsung, SK Hinnix, and Hyundai are pouring an enormous amount of money into the United States right now.
00:06And the pace is picking up.
00:09Start with Samsung Electronics.
00:11Its non-current assets in the Americas hit $40.66 trillion won by the end of June this year.
00:18That's up 47.8% from $27.51 trillion won at the end of last year.
00:25The Americas now make up 16% of Samsung's total non-current assets.
00:30Up from 11.9%.
00:32The centerpiece is Samsung's Taylor, Texas project.
00:36A total of $37 billion, roughly $52 trillion won.
00:40The first fab is set to start operating this year.
00:44The second is targeted for mass production in 2030, with construction set to begin by year end.
00:50SK Hinnix is moving too.
00:52Its U.S. non-current assets hit $1.1 trillion won by end of June, up almost 49% from
00:59the year before.
01:01Its Indiana fab breaks ground on the 27th of this month.
01:05And it's not just chips.
01:06Hyundai Steel breaks ground early next month on an integrated steel mill in Louisiana.
01:12A $5.8 billion project.
01:15About $8.2 trillion won.
01:18Hyundai Steel owns half of it.
01:20Hyundai Motor and Kia each hold 15%.
01:22And POSCO Group holds the remaining 20%.
01:26Add it all up, and Hyundai Motor Group's total U.S. investment plan, steel mill included, comes to $26 billion,
01:35around $36.7 trillion won.
01:37Covering everything from cars to robotics.
01:40Four angles on this.
01:42From a market perspective, this is a genuine reallocation of capital.
01:46The America's share of Samsung's asset base grew by 4 percentage points in 6 months.
01:52That's a real shift.
01:53Not just an announcement.
01:55From a policy perspective, this investment wave is widely tied to pressure from the Trump administration's trade policies.
02:02Companies are localizing production partly to manage tariff and trade risk.
02:06That context is broadly understood.
02:08But the specific policy demands driving each individual decision aren't detailed in this report.
02:15From a corporate perspective, three of Korea's biggest industrial names, semiconductors, memory chips, and steel, are moving in the same
02:24direction at the same time.
02:26That's a coordinated bet on U.S. manufacturing, not an isolated move by one company.
02:32From an everyday impact perspective, this report doesn't tell us what this means for jobs or prices back home in
02:39Korea.
02:40That connection isn't confirmed here, so we won't guess at it.
02:43The one line to remember.
02:46In just six months, the Americas went from 11.9% to 16% of Samsung's asset base.
02:52That's the clearest number in this whole story.
02:56That's based on reporting by Kim Yun-soo, Sim Ki-moon, and Jung Hye-jin for the Seoul Economic Daily.
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