<Anchor Hwang Soo-dong> Issue In Invitation Desk. Today, we will talk about the accelerator with Shin Seung-hwan, head of the Korea Basic Science Institute’s Multipurpose Synchrotron Radiation Accelerator Construction Project Group, which is overseeing the construction of Korea Light Source(KLS), which recently broke ground on the site in Ochang, Cheongju. Please come in. (Yes, hello.) Yes, nice to meet you. The official name of the Ochang synchrotron accelerator has been decided as the Korea Light Source(KLS). It was last July. Construction began on July 27. Does it have some particular meaning?   <Shin Seung-hwan, Director of the Multipurpose Synchrotron Radiation Accelerator Construction Project Group, KBSI> Yes, the large-scale accelerator construction project can be broadly divided into the planning stage, the design planning stage, and the construction and implementation stage. The fact that a groundbreaking ceremony was held means that the design work had been thoroughly completed, and based on that finalized design, after verification, the project entered the next stage of development. This meaning largely means that the uncertainty up to now has been clearly resolved This is how you should receive it. Our project team is grateful to everyone who has led and supported this project despite these difficult circumstances, and we also see it as encouragement for everyone participating in this project to work hard until it is completed.   - omitted-     Source: CJB Cheongju Broadcasting(https://www.cjb.co.kr/home/sub.php?menukey=61&mod=view&P_NO=260902031&PRO_CODE=4&scode=99999999)

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  In Ochang, Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, construction has recently begun on the “Korea Light Source(KLS),” on a site the size of 75 soccer fields, with a project cost of 1.1643 trillion won.   It is a fourth-generation synchrotron light accelerator, a “super-advanced microscope” that uses intense light created by accelerating electrons to speeds close to light to observe the atomic arrangement and state of matter. While ordinary microscopes can see small objects, synchrotron light sources, known as the microscopes of dreams, can see them millions of times brighter and clearer, down to the level of atoms or molecules.   - Omitted -   출처: 조선일보(https://www.chosun.com/economy/science/2026/08/25/6AUT4WJYLZDCNC5JX3CLCE6QGQ/)

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  Construction has begun on the ‘Korea Light Source (KLS)’ in Ochang, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, a facility spanning an area equivalent to 75 soccer fields and requiring an investment of 1.1643 trillion Korean won. This 4th-generation synchrotron accelerates electrons to near-light speeds, producing intense beams of light that act as a “giant microscope” to observe atomic arrangements and states of matter. While conventional microscopes can magnify small objects, synchrotrons—dubbed “dream microscopes”—can illuminate atoms and molecules with brightness and clarity millions of times greater. Basic science applications include developing smaller and faster chips, longer-lasting batteries, protein structure analysis for drug discovery, and identifying new materials.   - omitted-     Source: https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/24/QN3SPYT77RBUZIUYF57CCBFPYE/

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