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On the 4th, according to Quantum Energy Research Center Inc. and the Korean Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), the two institutions agreed to an MOU on May 24th, regarding the development of a thin film vapor deposition application utilizing a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. QERC had introduced multiple corporations, research institutions, and universities as its partners, but amidst controversy as many claimed that they had not entered into partnerships with QERC, KENTECH has been revealed to be the only institution to be in an official partnership with the company.

Park Jin-ho, Vice President of KENTECH, was the one who had presided over the partnership. In a call with Yonhap News today, he said that he had already been provided LK-99 samples, and were in the process of analyzing it using high performance electron microscopes, of which only 3 exist in the world, and that "it's been about a month since we've started analysis". Park explained that he'd first received the partnership request from QERC in 2017, them being introduced to him by Professor Emiretus Oh Geun-ho of Hanyang University, who had participated in the research of LK-99. He said "At first, the material properties itself looked pretty okay, but the replication rate was very low and there were problems with the purity of the samples", and that "when they contacted me again earlier this year, a lot of their problems regarding replication and sample purity had been significantly improved".

Park explained that he was approaching this from the perspective that even if this material is not a room-temperature superconductor, if it possesses properties exceeding that of conventional materials, it could have a degree of application. He said "Electronic semiconductors, power lines, and other such areas of our research benefit greatly from superconductor properties", and that "this is a simple material of which the component elements are not difficult to acquire".