{"id":134647,"date":"2026-08-27T22:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/134647\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:10:14","slug":"sk-hynix-hosts-ground-breaking-ceremony-at-purdue-university-with-lawmakers-local-state-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/134647\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Hynix hosts ground breaking ceremony at Purdue University with lawmakers | Local &#038; State News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SK Hynix celebrated its partnership with Purdue, West Lafayette and the state of Indiana Aug. 27 at a ground breaking ceremony<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Some of the speakers at the ceremony included the CEO of SK Hynix, Governor Mike Braun, Senator Todd Young, Purdue President Mitch Daniels and West Lafayette Mayor Erin Easter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SK Hynix said it chose Purdue and West Lafayette it&#8217;s because the state government was very welcoming to them<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We considered the factors like the land, power and support from the local government,&#8221; SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Governor Braun gave a speech at the ground breaking. He said he believes that SK Hynix choosing Indiana is going to help make the Hoosier state a frontrunner on chip manufacturing in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mitch Daniels said in a speech that from Purdue&#8217;s perspective, SK Hynix will help the university train their students for jobs in the tech field more effectively.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Noh-Jung said that the company wasn&#8217;t just looking at the West Lafayette area when planning where to build.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;SK Hynix was considered anywhere around the world. We are really happy to start our first construction site in the U.S from Indiana,&#8221; Noh-Jung explained.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SK Hynix also feels that it is the company&#8217;s duty to give back to the community of West Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p>                                Connect with Us:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Want to Share Something with Our Team?<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SK Hynix celebrated its partnership with Purdue, West Lafayette and the state of Indiana Aug. 27 at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[20695,3632,33749,39806,29581,68456,19075,241,275,7704],"class_list":["post-134647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-hynix","tag-ceo","tag-chip-manufacturing","tag-governor","tag-indiana","tag-mike-braun","tag-mitch-daniels","tag-purdue-university","tag-sk","tag-sk-hynix","tag-west-lafayette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}