South China Morning Post·Hong Kong·Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 06:49 AM
Who needs a degree? South Korea’s chip boom rewires university-obsessed culture
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Inside a brightly lit cleanroom at Chungbuk Semiconductor High School in South Korea, a group of teenagers in head-to-toe protective suits carefully handled silicon wafers, learning the same production processes used in commercial chip plants. About half of the school’s graduates