Employees of big tech companies can’t go home after coming to Korea

In particular, Apple is known to have placed a purchasing team at a hotel near factories operated by Samsung and SK Hynix, the world’s largest memory manufacturers. The teams are currently housed in nearby business hotels in places such as Hwaseong and Pangyo in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, and are hoping to negotiate long-term contracts that will secure memory supplies for the next two to three years.