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Choi Myung-bae is the CEO and Chairman of YC Corporation.

He also serves as CEO of its affiliates Exicon, Samtools, DHK Solution, and Samtec.

Choi is a pioneer in the domestic memory semiconductor wafer tester industry.

He was born on October 1, 1952, in Yeongyang, Gyeongbuk.

Choi graduated from Kyungdong High School in Seoul and majored in Metallurgical Engineering at Seoul National University.

He began his career at Samsung C&T in 1978 and later moved to Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division, where he rose to the rank of Executive Director. After leaving Samsung, he served as CEO of DI, a semiconductor testing equipment company.

In 2004, Choi founded Samtec, a precision machinery and tools company for semiconductors, and in 2005, he acquired a semiconductor testing equipment company, Test ENG (now Exicon).

In 2012, he acquired the semiconductor memory wafer tester division from Japan’s Yokogawa Electric and established YIK Corporation (now YC Corporation).

Choi sees wafer testers for high bandwidth memory (HBM) as a new growth engine and is focusing on research, development, and market expansion in this area.

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