- Centers to serve as a space for interaction and exchanges between overseas Koreans -

-Support for overseas Korean companies’ business activities and economic cooperation -

The Overseas Koreans Welcome Center—which will facilitate interaction and exchanges between overseas Koreans—and the Koreans’ Business Center, which will support the business activities of overseas Korean entrepreneurs and attract their investments, will open in Booyoung Songdo Tower.

Incheon City finalized in April the “Basic and Demonstrative Design to Welcome Overseas Koreans” to open the Overseas Koreans Welcome Center and disclosed that it will house a shared office space, a conference room, a seminar hall, and a lounge.

The city government is currently carrying out administrative procedures for the construction contract; the center will open in the second half of the year after about three months of construction.

<Yun Hyeon-mo, Chief of the Global Business Cooperation Bureau, is briefing the reporters on the current matters of his department at the City Hall’s briefing room on Jun. 20>

Incheon City initiated the establishment of the Overseas Koreans Welcome Center as a key business of the “10 Million City Incheon Project” as part of the mission to emerge as one of the world’s top ten cities along with the opening of the Overseas Koreans Agency’s branch on Jun. 5.

The welcome center will create and run a website to provide various kinds of information on Incheon, such as the city’s housing, medical care, tourism, and education, in an integrated manner. 

The center will also provide a wide range of facilities within its area to offer a space for interaction and exchanges between overseas Koreans.

The Koreans’ Business Center will actively support the economic activities of overseas Koreans in their home country by providing business information, investment attraction counseling and consultation support, and free office space for overseas Korean entrepreneurs and companies.

“With the opening of the Overseas Koreans Welcome Center and Koreans’ Business Center, which will become the foundations for the network between overseas Koreans, we will make efforts to let Incheon become the foothold for the activities of overseas Koreans in their home country as well as enhance their convenience,” said Yun Hyeon-mo, Head of Incheon City’s Global Business Cooperation Bureau.