Kim Yong-beom, head of the Blue House's policy office, is speaking at a public debate held at the Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 24th of last month. Yonhap News Agency Blue House announced on the 10th that the government has decided to create a semiconductor cluster in the Honam region on the site of Gwangju County Airport, a joint operation base for the ROK-US Air Force, and that “consultations between Korea and the United States have already begun.” Kim Yong-beom, head of the Blue House policy office, held a briefing at the Blue House’s Chunchugwan on the same day and said, “The U.S. military has taken over part of the Gwangju County Airport.”