South Korea's chip industry is poised for a significant boost amidst soaring demand for AI components. Analysts highlight this as a crucial opportunity to outpace rivals like China. Massive investments in new factories and data centers are underway, driven by sky-high profits from advanced memory chip production. This boom, however, also raises questions about sustainability and potential market saturation.

South Korea's KOSPI index has surged roughly 200% year-on-year as Samsung and SK Hynix ride the AI chip boom, but concentration risk looms large.

The announcement would mark President Lee Jae Myung's boldest push yet to align South Korea's AI and chip ambitions with his pledge to narrow regional disparities with a "great…