- Center to educate, train, and showcase domestically produced medical devices for domestic and foreign medical personnel - 

- Covers the entire bio industry, from bio medicines to medical devices -

Incheon Metropolitan City announced that it hosted an opening ceremony for the “Incheon Metropolitan City Education and Training Support Center for Korean Medical Devices” on November 30 at HLB Biostep Co., Ltd. in Songdo, with more than 150 officials from related organizations and companies in attendance.

<Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok delivers a welcome speech at the “Opening Ceremony for the Incheon Metropolitan City Education and Training Support Center for Korean Medical Devices” at HLB Biostep on November 30>

Notable attendees included Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok, Kim Hyeon-joo (Director of the Health Industry Promotion Division at the Ministry of Health and Welfare), Kim Dong-seok (Director of the Industrial Promotion Division at the Korea Health Industry Development Institute), Park Heung-gyu (Deputy Director of Gachon University Gil Hospital), Choi Gwang-seong (Director of the Biomedical Research Institute at Inha University Hospital), Moon Jeong-hwan (CEO of HLB Biostep), and Lee Joo-ho (Director of Incheon Techno Park), all of whom congratulated the opening of the Center and vowed to make the Center a success.

Designed to develop the domestic medical device industry, the Center supports education, training, and exhibitions so that domestic and foreign specialists and related medical personnel can try using domestically-made medical devices and eventually purchase local products.

Supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korea Health Industry Development Institute, and Incheon Metropolitan City, a consortium between Incheon Techno Park, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Inha University Hospital, and HLB Biostep Co., Ltd. will invest KRW 18.8 billion over five years to open and operate the Center.

Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok said, “Incheon is no. 1 in the world in terms of its biopharmaceutical production capacity, and is emerging as a major player in the pharmaceutical and bio industries. As for the medical devices industry, however, we’ve only taken our first few steps. Fortunately, I believe we can generate some good synergy in the medical device industry as well by utilizing the wealth of experience we gained in the pharmaceutical and bio industries, and by leveraging our robust infrastructure in the bio industry.” The Mayor added, “With some active support and aggressive investment, we want to establish Incheon as a world-class city for the entire bio industry.”

<On November 28, an ultrasound workshop got underway for doctors affiliated with the Incheon City Internal Medicine Association at the Incheon Metropolitan City Education and Training Support Center for Korean Medical Devices.>