It is expected to pass preliminary feasibility test early Nov with residents expecting ‘improved residential condition’ As the Baengnyeong Airport building project is facing a preliminary feasibility test by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance early November, Incheon Metropolitan City has high hopes for it passing the test. Incheon Metropolitan City said that how the project went was explained and active cooperation from the locals was requested during the discussion between mayor Park Namchoon and local residents that was held as a part of ‘Visiting mayor’ on Oct. 29. ▲As the Baengnyeong Airport building project is facing a preliminary feasibility test by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance early November, Incheon Metropolitan City has high hopes for it passing the test. Baengnyeong Airport location map ​​​​ Baengnyeong Airport is Incheon Metropolitan City’s major task to improve residential conditions for the locals of the west sea’s northernmost island and to ensure them to be able to commute within a day as it is a long-awaited wish of the five west sea islands’ residents. The Baengnyeong Airport building project plans to build a 30-meter wide and 1200-meter-long runway, control tower and passenger terminal to accommodate 50 person-capacity private airplanes by channeling 174 billion KRW using the 254,000 square meter land from Solgae district, Baengnyeong-myeon, Ongjin-gu. To date, it failed twice the deliberation in being selected as a target project in the preliminary feasibility test. However, as it has seen a higher Benefit-Cost analysis point of 2.19 from the prior feasibility review of the Baengnyeong Airport building project, conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the hopes are high at this time. The city government requested to make the Baengnyeong Airport the most prioritized agenda at ‘the five west sea comprehensive development plan (years from 2011 to 2015) and is making all-out effort to be nom

MOU with relevant companies, establishing a Disaster Robotics Center Creating the nation’s largest robotic industry cluster pursued by Incheon Metropolitan City is given a green light. Incheon Metropolitan City said that Incheon Robot Industry Innovation Cluster (Incheon Robot Land), which is being established in Cheongna International City, a Incheon Free Economic Zone, has been inundated with investment inquiries by robot-related businesses. ▲Incheon Metropolitan City said that Incheon Robot Industry Innovation Cluster (Incheon Robot Land), which is being established in Cheongna International City, a Free Economic Zone, has been inundated with investment inquiries by robot-related businesses. The image is a bird’s eye view of the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement. Incheon Metropolitan City started to attract investment by robot companies for industrial land(249,803㎡) in full swing after it has obtained approval in its change in the Development Plan for Incheon Robot Land (from a Robot Theme Park to Robot Industry Cluster) last June from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Starting from the MOU with Korea’s no.1 educational robot company, Roborobo, MOUs with Potenit, a robot logistics company, with Withnec, experiment analysis company and other service-robot listed companies have been signed to date. In addition, an industrial robot company, major companies, middle-market companies and SMEs have proposed investment in industrial sites considering their headquarters or research institutes’ transfer or robot-proving space creation. ▲Incheon Metropolitan City will start designing infrastructure work for Robot Industry Innovation Cluster(Incheon Robot Land) next year and finish the work by the end of 2024. The photo is a bird’s eye view of Robot Land. Incheon Metropolitan City will start designing infrastructure work for Robot Industry Innovation Cluster (Incheon Robot Land) next year and finish the work by the end of 2024. To this

Provides attraction and experience by operating ‘Incheon Craft’ Experience Zone Incheon Metropolitan City is implementing XR Metaverse establishment business, for the first time for a local government, and is striving to reach its goal as a Global Smart City. Incheon Metropolitan City is participating in the ‘1st Metaverse Korea 2021’ held at Seoul COEX for 4 days from 26th to 29th. Incheon Metropolitan City is going to introduce ‘XR Metaverse Incheon e-Eum project’ and showcase related devices at the Exhibition. ▲ Aerial view of the Incheon Metropolitan City Promotion Exhibition Hall to be placed in the Metaverse Korea Exhibition. ‘XR Metaverse Incheon e-Eum project’ is a business establishing a 3D space map for 3.8 million㎡ area over Incheon International Airport, Open Port, Song-do, Bupyeong subway station, and provide metaverse convenient service such as road map, tourism, and shopping connected with 5G.It’s goal is to develop services such as XR glass for the visually impaired. Hosted by Incheon Metropolitan City, and 10 companies are participating as consortiums such as Naver Labs and Incheon International Airport Corporation. Besides these, Incheon Promotion exhibition hall is going to operate ‘Incheon Craft’ Experience Zone where people can have a chance to experience Incheon as a city where the past and the future co-exists, in a virtual reality space. They are going to organize contents such as introducing extension of Digital Twin and establishment of Data Dam, and lectures from experts in Metaverse, Digital Twins fields, to provide various attraction and experience for the tourists. Ji-Young Kim, person in charge of Smart City mentioned, “Our participation in the exhibition enables us to take a look at the latest trend in Metaverse industry and IT technology when the digital transformation is taking place. It is a great chance to recognize our city’s smart technology status”. She also said, “It is the first time for a l

MCNEX Co., Ltd. Agreed to move the headquarter and its research institute, by early next year Last 15th, Incheon Metropolitan City made a business agreement with MCNEX Co., Ltd. who are leading the autonomous driving technology and joined the 1 trillion sales club.The business deal was on promoting investment in the Incheon Free Economic Zone and development cooperation for the Incheon’s future automobile parts industry. This agreement is to move the MCNEX company which is currently located in the Gasan Digital Complex in Geumcheon-guin Seoul to the Incheon Free Economic Zone, and encourage development of future automobile parts industry in Incheon through Autonomous Driving Technology RD cooperation etc. It is anticipated that it can create quality jobs for younger generation by advantage in employment of the Incheon citizens and boost the local economy. ▲ MCNEX. Park Namchoon, mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City is meeting with Dong-Wook Min, representative of MCNEX at the ‘Business Agreement Ceremony for Investment promotion between Incheon Metropolitan City and MCNEX’. The meeting took place at the city hall reception room on the last 15th. The mayor ParkNamchoon expressed gratitude to MCNEX, a global company which is recognized for the technology around the world, for agreeing to invest in Song-do of Incheon.He said he is anticipating it will help development of the future automobile parts industry in Incheon, and asked to do their best to help establish the future automobile business as the core business in Incheon Metropolitan City. For this investment agreement, MCNEX is going to move the headquarters and research institute located in Seoul to Incheon Free Economic Zone (Zone 7) until the end of the year, and extend the Autonomous Driving Technology business through advancement of the Autonomous Driving Technology etc. MCNEX is a leading company in Autonomous Driving Technology who develops and produces image sensing autonomous driving system includi

Traditional grocery market goods can be ordered on-line and delivered starting Oct. 18 Incheon is attempting to boost the local economy and encourage another success story on the small business retailers, by launching a new service that connects the Incheon e-Eum platform and the traditional grocery market. Starting Oct.18, Incheon Metropolitan City and Incheon Tourism Organization launched the ‘Traditional market goods shopping through e-Eum’ service where the traditional goods can be ordered on-line and be delivered by using the Incheon e-Eum platform. ‘Traditional market goods shopping through e-Eum’ service was launched on the Incheon e-Eum platform to encourage competitiveness of the traditional markets, as the consumption pattern is rapidly changing as on-line and mobile shopping is becoming more common. Following the Incheon local currency ‘Incheon e-Eum’ and public delivery service ‘Delivery e-Eum’ which achieved more than KRW 7 trillion for the total accumulative payment, this is another service to help connect the small business owners and consumers (citizens) and boost the local economy. The Incheon e-Eum users can use this service by simply clicking the ‘e-Eum shopping’ button on the Incheon e-Eum main page, without downloading a new app or signing up for membership. For the ‘e-Eum shopping’, 14 markets and 202 shops are going to participate in this service, which includes Hyundai market·Songhyun market in Dong-gu, Yonghyun market·Seokbawi market in Michuhol-gu, Moraenae market· Ganseok Free market· Guwol Wholesale market in Namdong-gu, BupyeongRotary Underground market· Bupyeong Culture Street· Bupyeong Ggang market·Bupyeong Complex market in Bupyeong-gu, Gyeyang-san Traditional market· Gyesan market, and Seo-gu Gajwa market in Gyeyang-gu, etc. When the food registered in the on-line mall, side dishes, vegetable, fruit and meat, up to 3,000 items are ordered on-line, without visiting the traditional markets in person, ea

Evaluation plan of core assets such as Armory Hospital at Camp Market and Aekwan Theater Incheon Metropolitan City is planning to establish a plan to find a solution for the current issues as well as setting up a principle for the modern cultural heritage management. Incheon Metropolitan City held the first ‘Modern cultural heritage management Task Force’ conference on the last 5th, to discuss implementing registration of Salt Storage at the Open Port and Ongjin-gun Scholarship Hallas cultural properties, and ways to preserve and utilize the modern cultural heritage, which has become the current issue. ▲​Incheon Metropolitan City held the first ‘Modern cultural heritage management TF’ conference on the last 5th, to discuss implementing registration of Salt Storage at the Open Port and Ongjin-gun Scholarship Hallas cultural properties, and ways to preserve and utilize the modern cultural heritage. The participants of the conference recognized that setting up a direction for the principles(support, utilization and purchasing, etc.) for the Incheon Metropolitan City’s modern cultural heritage is important in order to utilize and support management of the modern cultural heritage. They agreed that there is a need for promotion on finding value in the modern building that embodies the identity of the area, and form a consensus among the citizens. The participants recognized that there is not enough appreciation for the value of the modern cultural heritage, which often leads to result in social conflict. They discussed the ongoing issue on how to preserve and utilize the modern cultural heritage in the conference. ▲ In order to register Salt Storage and Ong-Jin Scholarship Hall as cultural properties, TF is planning to consider the significance of the Salt Storage and utilization possibility of the Ongjin-gun Scholarship Hall. Ongjin-gun Scholarship Hall has significance in that this is a western style residence and an educational facility built during t

Five buses to service three inter-city routes (blue bus) The city of Incheon is introducing eco-friendly hydrogen city buses for the first time to usher in a new era of hydrogen-powered public transportation. Incheon commissioned five hydrogen city buses to service three inter-city (blue bus) routes at 05:00 on October 6. ▲The city of Incheon is introducing eco-friendly hydrogen city buses for the first time to usher in a new era of hydrogen-powered public transportation. Incheon commissioned five hydrogen city buses to service three inter-city (blue bus) routes at 05:00 on October 6. Of the new hydrogen buses, two buses were assigned to route no. 13, one bus was assigned to route no. 46, and two buses were assigned to route no. 82. No. 13 services the route between the bus depot in Sinheung-dong to Geomam Station, no. 46 services the route between the bus depot in Sinheung-dong to Gulpocheon River, and no. 82 services the route between the bus depot in Sinheung-dong to the northern square at Dongincheon Station. To celebrate the commissioning of its new hydrogen buses, Incheon hosted a test drive event on October 5. The test drive event was attended by Incheon Mayor Park Nam-chun, Incheon City Council Chairperson Shin Eun-ho, Incheon City Council Industrial Economy Chairperson Lim Dong-joo, Hyundai Motor’s Managing Director Kang Tae-won, Sinheung Transportation President Song Byeong-jin, and Incheon City Bus Transportation Business Association Chairperson Lee In-cheol. Meanwhile, this marks the first time Incheon is introducing hydrogen buses toits city bus transportation system. Starting on October 6, the hydrogen buses will continue to service routes no. 13, 46, and 82. A hydrogen bus is a vehicle that uses hydrogen fuel cell technology. Hydrogen chemically reacts with oxygen in the air to generate electricity. Here, while the system acquires oxygen in the air, the filter installed on the bus functions as an air purifier. For this reason, hydrogen buses are

Incheon diversifies its e-Eum service with the e-Eum delivery service, the e-Eum YouI service, and the Incheon Direct Imports service Incheon e-Eum, a win-win economy platform that connects Incheon citizens and local small business owners, is evolving thanks to the addition of new services. The city plans to offer services that satisfy both citizens and small businesses by launching additional services linked to the Incheon e-Eum platform, the nation’s first mobile-based local gift cart system. ▲Incheon e-Eum, a win-win economy platform that connects Incheon citizens and local small business owners, is evolving thanks to the addition of new services. Image of the Incheon e-Eum card. “Incheon e-Eum Add-on Services” refers to all platform services for users or franchisees in connection with the Incheon e-Eum platform. Incheon e-Eum, which was first launched in July 2018, has helped revitalize the local economy by bringing in 1.56 million cumulative subscribers and KRW 7 trillion in cumulative transactions by the end of August this year.It also secured its finances to maintain its services with government support worth KRW 143.6 billion, which was the most among all metropolitan cities across the country. Incheon plans to actively promote its linked add-on services fore-Eum so that the platform can grow beyond a simple payment system to a comprehensive system that supports the lives of citizens and small business owners with a self-sustaining structure that can ensure the continuity of the project. The first add-on service launched by Incheon is “e-Eum Delivery,” a public delivery service using Incheon’s e-Eum platform. e-Eum Delivery offers easy access to all Incheon e-Eum members via the mobile app. As a win-win proposition for both small business owners and consumers, e-Eum Delivery reduces the fee borne by small business owners by up to approximately 5%, the app offers discount coupons and additional discounts(1~5%) for consumers. e-Eum Delivery, whi

Incheon creates dedicated task force in anticipation of the complete return of Camp Market in 2022 Incheon is preparing for the complete return of the Camp Market US Army Base in Bupyeong in 2022. The city government is laying the groundwork for Camp Market’s return driven by two policies: to actively reflect public opinion on how to develop a park at the site of Camp Market, and how to preserve the 80-year history of Camp Market with the new park. On July 12, the city launched a dedicated task force (Camp Market Communication Team) under the Camp Market Division. Incheon recognizes that active participation of citizens and a systematic record of historical and cultural assets are essential when setting the future direction of the new park at Camp Market that will effectively return the former Army base into the arms of Incheon citizens for the first time in 80 years. Accordingly, the city is looking stimulate public discussion on Camp Market and open a dedicated archive. ▲Incheon is preparing for the complete return of the Camp Market US Army Base in Bupyeong in 2022. The city government is laying the groundwork for Camp Market’s return driven by two policies: to actively reflect public opinion on how to develop a park at the site of Camp Market, and how to preserve the 80-year history of Camp Market with the new park. Overview of Camp Market in Bupyeong Public discussion on Camp Market The public has differing opinions on the preservation and removal of buildings and arsenals at Camp Market, and concern over the risk of conflicting viewpoints boiling over once Zone D of Camp Market is returned is rising. The city of Incheon plans to gather the opinions and feedback of Incheon citizens about Camp Market with activities such as the Citizens’ Participation Committee, “Camp Market Citizens’ Public Discussion Project” (since 2017), and the “Communication Box”project (available in three locations). Furthermore, Incheon plans to collect feedback on Cam

A Major Shift to the civic participatory consumption space of culture andart ​​​Incheon Metropolitan City is concentrating its efforts on revitalizing the industrial complex that is the foundation of the local economy and plays a major role in creating key infrastructure for economic growth and job creation. Incheon Metropolitan City is promoting to innovate manufacturing of aging industrial complexes, create good jobs, and improve human-centered infrastructure until 2023 by receiving government funding for the industrial complex remodeling project selected by the Government Jobs Committee in 2020, starting with the Smart Green Industrial Complex Creation Project selected by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy in 2019.In the meantime, the quality of employment in the Incheon Industrial Complex has gradually deteriorated due to the aging offacilities, distribution of industries concentrated in traditional manufacturing, production function-oriented facilities, and lack of infrastructure such as worker convenience facilities, and the problem of mismatching jobs is serious due to the youth's avoidance of employment. Although administrative support and policies to solve this problem have been continued, it is true that there are limits to effective policies due to the lack of private participation.​Hereupon, Incheon Metropolitan City is promoting large-scale renovation projects, which reflects the regional characteristics of aging industrial complexes based on government funds selected through public offerings, such as ▲ High-quality manpower nurturing project ▲ Material, parts, and equipment demonstration support project ▲ Integrated control center establishment ▲ Smart energy platform and logistics center construction project. This is acting as a positive factor for corporate investment by giving companies a key signal of change towards smart and high added value of industrial complexes.In addition, Incheon Metropolitan City is attracting privat