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                                                                    EXHIBIT 3.1

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                             AMKOR TECHNOLOGY, INC.


 FIRST:                 The name of the Corporation is Amkor Technology, Inc.
                        (the "Corporation").

 SECOND:                The address  of  the Corporation's  registered office
                        in  the  State of  Delaware  is Corporation Trust
                        Center, 1209 Orange  Street, in  the city of
                        Wilmington, County of New Castle zip code  19801.  The
                        name of the registered  agent at such address  is the
                        Corporation Trust Company.

 THIRD:                 The purpose of  the Corporation is to  engage in any
                        lawful act or activity  for which corporations may be
                        organized under the General Corporation Law of
                        Delaware.

 FOURTH:                The  Corporation  is  authorized  to  issue  two
                        classes of  stock  to  be designated respectively
                        Common Stock  and Preferred  Stock. The  total number
                        of shares  of all classes  of  stock  which  the
                        Corporation  has  authority  to issue  is  510,000,000,
                        consisting  of  500,000,000 shares  of  Common Stock,
                        $.001   par value  (the "Common Stock"), and
                        10,000,000 shares of  Preferred Stock,  $.001 par value
                        (the  "Preferred Stock").

                        The Preferred Stock may  be issued from time to time
                        in one or more series. The Board of Directors is hereby
                        authorized subject to limitations prescribed by law, to
                        fix by resolution  or resolutions the  designations,
                        powers, preferences and  rights, and the
                        qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of
                        each such series of  Preferred Stock, including
                        without limitation  authority to fix by  resolution or
                        resolutions, the dividend  rights,  dividend rate,
                        conversion rights,  voting rights,  rights  and terms
                        of redemption  (including sinking fund provisions),
                        redemption price  or prices, and liquidation
                        preferences of any  wholly unissued series of Preferred
                        Stock, and the number of shares constituting any such
                        series and the designation thereof,  or any of the
                        foregoing.

                        The  Board of  Directors is further authorized  to
                        increase  (but not  above the total number of
                        authorized shares of  the class) or decrease (but  not
                        below the  number of shares  of any such series  then
                        outstanding) the number  of shares of any series, the
                        number  of which  was fixed by  it, subsequent to  the
                        issue of shares  of such series then  outstanding,
                        subject  to   the  powers,  preferences  and   rights,
                        and   the qualifications, limitations and  restrictions
                        thereof stated in the resolution  of the Board of
                        Directors originally  fixing the  number of  shares of
                        such  series. If  the number of shares  of any  series
                        is  so decreased, then  the shares  constituting such
                        decrease shall  resume  the  status  which they  had
                        prior to  the  adoption  of  the resolution originally
                        fixing the number of shares of such series.

 FIFTH:                 The name and mailing address of the incorporator are as
                        follows:

                        Weston C. Miller
                        Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
                        650 Page Mill Road
                        Palo Alto, CA 94304

 SIXTH:                 The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
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 SEVENTH:               The  election of directors need not be by written
                        ballot unless a stockholder demands election by written
                        ballot  at a meeting of  stockholders and before voting
                        begins  or unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall
                        so provide.

 EIGHTH:                The  number  of  directors which  constitute  the
                        whole  Board  of  Directors  of the Corporation shall
                        be designated in the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 NINTH:                 In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers
                        conferred by the  laws of the State of Delaware, the
                        Board of Directors is expressly authorized to adopt,
                        alter,  amend or repeal the  Bylaws of the
                        Corporation.  The  stockholders may adopt,  alter,
                        amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation upon an
                        affirmative supermajority (2/3) vote.

 TENTH:                 To the fullest  extent permitted by the  Delaware
                        General Corporation Law  as the same exists  or  may
                        hereafter  be  amended,  no  director  of  the
                        Corporation  shall be personally liable  to the
                        Corporation or  its stockholders  for monetary  damages
                        for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.

                        Neither any  amendment nor repeal of  this Article, nor
                        the  adoption of any provision of this Certificate  of
                        Incorporation inconsistent with this Article,  shall
                        eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article in
                        respect of any matter occurring, or any cause of
                        action, suit or claim that,  but for this Article,
                        would accrue or arise, prior  to such amendment, repeal
                        or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

 ELEVENTH:              At the  election of directors of the Corporation, each
                        holder of stock of any class or series shall  be
                        entitled  to one  vote for each share  held. No
                        stockholder will  be permitted to cumulate votes at any
                        election of directors.

 TWELFTH:               No action  that  is required  or permitted  to be
                        taken by  the  stockholders of  the corporation  at any
                        annual or  special  meeting of  stockholders  may be
                        effected by written consent of stockholders in lieu of
                        a meeting of stockholders.

 THIRTEENTH:            Meetings of stockholders  may be held within or without
                        the State  of Delaware, as the Bylaws  may  provide.
                        The  books of  the  Corporation  may  be kept  (subject
                        to any provision contained in the  laws of  the State
                        of  Delaware) outside  of the State  of Delaware at
                        such place or places as may be designated from time  to
                        time by the Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the
                        Corporation.

 FOURTEENTH:            The Corporation  reserves the right  to amend,  alter,
                        change or  repeal any provision contained  in  this
                        Certificate  of  Incorporation, in  the  manner  now or
                        hereafter prescribed  by the laws of the State  of
                        Delaware, and all rights conferred herein are granted
                        subject to this reservation.

         The undersigned incorporator hereby acknowledges that the foregoing
Certificate of Incorporation is his act and deed and that the facts stated
herein are true.

Dated: September 26, 1997

                                          /s/ Weston C. Miller
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                                          Weston C. Miller
                                          Incorporator





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