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Koh Seok-tae is the Chairman of KC Tech and the founder of the company. He also serves as the Chairman (Board Chairman) of KC.

Born on March 31, 1954, in Seoul, Koh graduated from Seoul High School and earned a degree in Chemical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University.

He began his career in sales at Daesung Oxygen, an industrial gas production company under the Daesung Group. In 1987, he founded a trading company that imported and sold semiconductor equipment.

Koh pursued his dream of localizing semiconductor equipment by partnering with suppliers from the United States and Japan, developing semiconductor process equipment starting in 1991. He has received numerous government commendations for his contributions to the localization of semiconductor equipment.

In 2017, Koh restructured the company through a corporate split: KC focused on chemical engineering areas such as gases for semiconductors and displays, while KC Tech specialized in manufacturing and selling front-end equipment and consumable materials for semiconductor and display processes.

KC Tech’s core business revolves around producing equipment and consumables for semiconductor and display manufacturing processes, with major clients including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

Koh is regarded as a typical "salesman-turned-CEO." He has been working to expand KC Tech’s business beyond its position as Korea’s only provider of chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process equipment into new areas such as materials development.

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