Recently South Korean Ministry of Commerce Industry quoted from the latest information on market research agency, IHS Technology, said the global semiconductor market share of South Korea last year surpassed Japan to second place the global semiconductor market share .According to statistics, last year, South Korean companies semiconductor sales reached 51.516 billion U.S. dollars , the global market share of 16.2 percent , more than Japan ( 13.7% ) ranked second in the world . This is the Republic of Korea since the 1980s after a lapse of 30 years, the semiconductor born in this area for the first time surpassed Japan .However , too much emphasis on the Korean semiconductor industry 's research and development and sales of memory chips . South Korea's storage chip sales reached 34.297 billion U.S. dollars , accounting for 66.5% of total semiconductor sales in the world 's market share reached 52.4% , far more than the second highest in the United States ( 27.1% ) .In contrast, the next generation of semiconductor products is called SoC market share of only 5.8% , ranked last in the top five semiconductor raw countries. Is a high value-added projects photonic devices and discrete devices market share of 10.4 %, the gap with Japan ( 31.5% ) of the poor.