Incheonis offering 1.2 trillion won in Back-to-Normal and Livelihood Support Grantsfor facilitating its citizens to go back to normal in a prompt manner. The city plans to accelerate the economicrecovery through the ‘livelihood support’ based on ‘Incheon-type Disease SpreadControl Measures,’ in which sustainable ‘normality’ is maintained. ▲Incheon held a media briefing with the Speaker of the City Council and theGovernors of 10 counties and districts in the Empathy Meeting Room in the Cityon 11th, where they announced the ‘City of Incheon Back-to-Normal, LivelihoodSupport Plan’ Major Park Namchoon held a media briefing with the Speaker of the City Counciland the Governors of 10 counties and districts in the Empathy Meeting Room inthe City on 11th, where they announced the ‘City of Incheon Back-to-Normal,Livelihood Support Plan’ Incheonplans to implement Incheon Back-to-Normal, Livelihood Support Plan in the twotracks of ‘Incheon-type Livelihood Support Measures’ and ‘Incheon-type DiseaseSpread Control Measures,’ for prompt restoration of normality and livelihood. First,the Incheon-type Livelihood Support Measures amounts to a total of 1.624trillion won (or 2.3272 trillion won, if the financial supports are included),which is composed of ▲ Consumption Support Fund 543 billion won, ▲ SpecialSupport for Affected Industries 210.1 billion won, and ▲ Job and LivelihoodSupport 409.3 billion won. MayorPark said, “The Incheon-type Disease Spread Control Measures and Incheon-typeLivelihood Support Measures will be focused heavily on the most severelyaffected sectors, while we concentrate our efforts on small businesses over ashort period utilizing Incheon e-Eum to ensure consumption is maximized” as hedescribed the Incheon-type Livelihood Support Measures. Theconsumption support fund amounts to 543 billion won, which is composed of ▲ 301billion won for the Back-to-Normal Support, in which every citizen will be paid100,000 won, ▲ 21

It is expected to pass preliminaryfeasibility test early Nov with residents expecting ‘improved residentialcondition’ As the Baengnyeong Airport buildingproject is facing a preliminary feasibility test by the Ministry of Strategyand Finance early November, Incheon Metropolitan City has high hopes for itpassing the test. Incheon Metropolitan City said that howthe project went was explained and active cooperation from the locals was requestedduring the discussion between mayor Park Namchoon and local residents that washeld as a part of ‘Visiting mayor’ on Oct. 29. ▲As the Baengnyeong Airportbuilding project is facing a preliminary feasibility test by the Ministry ofStrategy and Finance early November, Incheon Metropolitan City has high hopesfor it passing the test. Baengnyeong Airport location map ​​​​ Baengnyeong Airport is Incheon Metropolitan City’s major task to improveresidential conditions for the locals of the west sea’s northernmost island andto ensure them to be able to commute within a day as it is a long-awaited wishof the five west sea islands’ residents. The Baengnyeong Airport building projectplans to build a 30-meter wide and 1200-meter-long runway, control tower andpassenger terminal to accommodate 50 person-capacity private airplanes bychanneling 174 billion KRW using the 254,000 square meter land from Solgaedistrict, Baengnyeong-myeon, Ongjin-gu. To date, it failed twice the deliberationin 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 theprior feasibility review of the Baengnyeong Airport building project, conductedby the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the hopes are high atthis time. The city government requested to makethe Baengnyeong Airport the most prioritized agenda at ‘the five west seacomprehensive development plan (years from 2011 to 2015) and is making all-outeffort to be nominated from the preliminar

MOU with relevant companies, establishing a Disaster RoboticsCenter Creating the nation’s largest roboticindustry cluster pursued by Incheon Metropolitan City is given a green light. Incheon Metropolitan City said thatIncheon Robot Industry Innovation Cluster (Incheon Robot Land), which is beingestablished in Cheongna International City, a Incheon Free Economic Zone, hasbeen inundated with investment inquiries by robot-related businesses. ▲Incheon Metropolitan City saidthat Incheon Robot Industry Innovation Cluster (Incheon Robot Land), which isbeing established in Cheongna International City, a Free Economic Zone, hasbeen inundated with investment inquiries by robot-related businesses. The imageis a bird’s eye view of the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement. IncheonMetropolitan City started to attract investment by robot companies forindustrial land(249,803㎡) in full swing after it has obtainedapproval in its change in the Development Plan for Incheon Robot Land (from a RobotTheme Park to Robot Industry Cluster) last June from the Ministry of Trade,Industry and Energy. Starting from the MOU with Korea’s no.1educational robot company, Roborobo, MOUs with Potenit, a robot logisticscompany, with Withnec, experiment analysis company and other service-robotlisted companies have been signed to date. In addition, an industrial robotcompany, major companies, middle-market companies and SMEs have proposedinvestment in industrial sites considering their headquarters or researchinstitutes’ transfer or robot-proving space creation. ▲Incheon Metropolitan City willstart designing infrastructure work for Robot Industry Innovation Cluster(IncheonRobot Land) next year and finish the work by the end of 2024. The photo is abird’s eye view of Robot Land. Incheon Metropolitan City will start designing infrastructure work for RobotIndustry Innovation Cluster (Incheon Robot Land) next year and finish the workby the end of 2024. To this end investors will be ex

Provides attraction and experience by operating ‘Incheon Craft’ ExperienceZone Incheon Metropolitan City isimplementing XR Metaverse establishment business, for the first time for alocal government, and is striving to reach its goal as a Global Smart City. Incheon Metropolitan City isparticipating in the ‘1st Metaverse Korea 2021’ held at Seoul COEXfor 4 days from 26th to 29th. Incheon Metropolitan City is going tointroduce ‘XR Metaverse Incheon e-Eum project’ and showcase related devices atthe Exhibition. ▲ Aerial view of the IncheonMetropolitan City Promotion Exhibition Hall to be placed in the Metaverse KoreaExhibition. ‘XR Metaverse Incheon e-Eum project’ isa business establishing a 3D space map for 3.8 million㎡ area over Incheon InternationalAirport, Open Port, Song-do, Bupyeong subway station, and provide metaverseconvenient 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, and10 companies are participating as consortiums such as Naver Labs and IncheonInternational Airport Corporation. Besides these, Incheon Promotionexhibition hall is going to operate ‘Incheon Craft’ Experience Zone wherepeople can have a chance to experience Incheon as a city where the past and thefuture co-exists, in a virtual reality space. They are going to organize contents suchas introducing extension of Digital Twin and establishment of Data Dam, andlectures from experts in Metaverse, Digital Twins fields, to provide variousattraction and experience for the tourists. Ji-Young Kim, person in charge of SmartCity mentioned, “Our participation in the exhibition enables us to take a lookat the latest trend in Metaverse industry and IT technology when the digital transformationis taking place. It is a great chance to recognize our city’s smart technologystatus”. She also said, “It is the first time for a local government to launc

MCNEX Co., Ltd. Agreed to move the headquarter and its research institute,by early next year Last 15th, IncheonMetropolitan City made a business agreement with MCNEX Co., Ltd. who areleading the autonomous driving technology and joined the 1 trillion sales club.The business deal was on promoting investment in the Incheon Free Economic Zoneand development cooperation for the Incheon’s future automobile parts industry. This agreement is to move the MCNEXcompany which is currently located in the Gasan Digital Complex in Geumcheon-guin Seoul to the Incheon Free Economic Zone, and encourage development of futureautomobile parts industry in Incheon through Autonomous Driving TechnologyRD cooperation etc. It is anticipated that it can create quality jobs foryounger generation by advantage in employment of the Incheon citizens and boostthe local economy. ▲ MCNEX. Park Namchoon, mayor ofIncheon Metropolitan City is meeting with Dong-Wook Min, representative ofMCNEX at the ‘Business Agreement Ceremony for Investment promotion between IncheonMetropolitan City and MCNEX’. The meeting took place at the city hall receptionroom on the last 15th. The mayor ParkNamchoon expressed gratitude to MCNEX, a global company which is recognized forthe 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 automobileparts industry in Incheon, and asked to do their best to help establish thefuture automobile business as the core business in Incheon Metropolitan City. For this investment agreement, MCNEX isgoing to move the headquarters and research institute located in Seoul to IncheonFree Economic Zone (Zone 7) until the end of the year, and extend theAutonomous Driving Technology business through advancement of the AutonomousDriving Technology etc. MCNEX is a leading company in AutonomousDriving Technology who develops and produces image sensing autonomous drivingsystem including electronic units su

Traditional grocery market goods can be ordered on-line and deliveredstarting Oct. 18 Incheon is attempting to boost the localeconomy and encourage another success story on the small business retailers, bylaunching a new service that connects the Incheon e-Eum platform and thetraditional grocery market. Starting Oct.18, Incheon Metropolitan City and Incheon Tourism Organization launched the‘Traditional market goods shopping through e-Eum’ service where the traditionalgoods can be ordered on-line and be delivered by using the Incheon e-Eumplatform. ‘Traditional market goods shoppingthrough e-Eum’ service was launched on the Incheon e-Eum platform to encouragecompetitiveness of the traditional markets, as the consumption pattern israpidly changing as on-line and mobile shopping is becoming more common. Followingthe Incheon local currency ‘Incheon e-Eum’ and public delivery service‘Delivery e-Eum’ which achieved more than KRW 7 trillion for the totalaccumulative payment, this is another service to help connect the smallbusiness owners and consumers (citizens) and boost the local economy. The Incheon e-Eum users can use thisservice by simply clicking the ‘e-Eum shopping’ button on the Incheon e-Eummain page, without downloading a new app or signing up for membership. For the ‘e-Eum shopping’, 14 markets and202 shops are going to participate in this service, which includes Hyundaimarket·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· Gyesanmarket, and Seo-gu Gajwa market in Gyeyang-gu, etc. When the food registered in the on-linemall, side dishes, vegetable, fruit and meat, up to 3,000 items are orderedon-line, without visiting the traditional markets in person, each marketdelivers the

Evaluation plan of core assets such as Armory Hospital at Camp Market andAekwan Theater IncheonMetropolitan City is planning to establish a plan to find a solution for thecurrent issues as well as setting up a principle for the modern culturalheritage management. Incheon Metropolitan City held the first ‘Modern cultural heritage management TaskForce’ conference on the last 5th, to discuss implementingregistration of Salt Storage at the Open Port and Ongjin-gun Scholarship Hallas cultural properties, and ways to preserve and utilize the modern culturalheritage, which has become the current issue. ▲​Incheon Metropolitan City held the first ‘Modern cultural heritagemanagement TF’ conference on the last 5th, to discuss implementingregistration of Salt Storage at the Open Port and Ongjin-gun Scholarship Hallas cultural properties, and ways to preserve and utilize the modern culturalheritage. The participantsof the conference recognized that setting up a direction for the principles(support, utilization and purchasing, etc.) for the Incheon Metropolitan City’smodern cultural heritage is important in order to utilize and supportmanagement of the modern cultural heritage. They agreed that there is a need forpromotion on finding value in the modern building that embodies the identity ofthe area, and form a consensus among the citizens. The participants recognized that thereis not enough appreciation for the value of the modern cultural heritage, whichoften leads to result in social conflict. They discussed the ongoing issue on howto preserve and utilize the modern cultural heritage in the conference. ▲ In order to register Salt Storageand Ong-Jin Scholarship Hall as cultural properties, TF is planning to considerthe significance of the Salt Storage and utilization possibility of the Ongjin-gunScholarship Hall. Ongjin-gun Scholarship Hall has significance in that this isa western style residence and an educational facility built during the Japanesecolonizatio

Fivebuses to service three inter-city routes (blue bus) The city of Incheon is introducing eco-friendly hydrogen citybuses for the first time to usher in a new era of hydrogen-powered publictransportation. Incheon commissioned five hydrogen city buses to service threeinter-city (blue bus) routes at 05:00 on October 6. ▲The city of Incheon isintroducing eco-friendly hydrogen city buses for the first time to usher in anew era of hydrogen-powered public transportation. Incheon commissioned fivehydrogen city buses to service three inter-city (blue bus) routes at 05:00 onOctober 6. Of the new hydrogen buses, two buses were assigned to route no. 13, one bus wasassigned to route no. 46, and two buses were assigned to route no. 82. No. 13services 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 GulpocheonRiver, and no. 82 services the route between the bus depot in Sinheung-dong tothe 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 wasattended by Incheon Mayor Park Nam-chun, Incheon City Council Chairperson ShinEun-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 buseswill continue to service routes no. 13, 46, and 82. A hydrogen bus is a vehicle that uses hydrogen fuel celltechnology. Hydrogen chemically reacts with oxygen in the air to generateelectricity. Here, while the system acquires oxygen in the air, the filterinstalled on the bus functions as an air purifier. For this reason, hydrogen buses are gaining more attention

Incheondiversifies its e-Eum service with the e-Eum delivery service, the e-EumYouI service, and the Incheon Direct Imports service Incheon e-Eum, a win-win economy platform that connects Incheoncitizens and local small business owners, is evolving thanks to the addition ofnew services. The city plans to offer services that satisfy both citizens andsmall businesses by launching additional services linked to the Incheon e-Eumplatform, the nation’s first mobile-based local gift cart system. ▲Incheon e-Eum, a win-wineconomy platform that connects Incheon citizens and local small businessowners, is evolving thanks to the addition of new services. Image of theIncheon e-Eum card. “Incheon e-Eum Add-on Services” refers to all platform services for users orfranchisees in connection with the Incheon e-Eum platform. Incheon e-Eum, which was first launched in July 2018, has helpedrevitalize the local economy by bringing in 1.56 million cumulative subscribersand KRW 7 trillion in cumulative transactions by the end of August this year.It also secured its finances to maintain its services with government supportworth KRW 143.6 billion, which was the most among all metropolitan citiesacross 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 acomprehensive system that supports the lives of citizens and small businessowners with a self-sustaining structure that can ensure the continuity of theproject. The first add-on service launched by Incheon is “e-EumDelivery,” a public delivery service using Incheon’s e-Eum platform. e-Eum Delivery offers easy access to all Incheon e-Eum membersvia the mobile app. As a win-win proposition for both small business owners andconsumers, e-Eum Delivery reduces the fee borne by small business owners by upto approximately 5%, the app offers discount coupons and additional discounts(1~5%) for consumers. e-Eum Delivery, which Incheon officially

Incheon creates dedicated task force in anticipation of thecomplete return of Camp Market in 2022 Incheon is preparing for the complete return of the Camp MarketUS Army Base in Bupyeong in 2022. The city government is laying the groundwork for Camp Market’sreturn driven by two policies: to actively reflect public opinion on how todevelop a park at the site of Camp Market, and how to preserve the 80-yearhistory of Camp Market with the new park. On July 12, the city launched a dedicated task force (CampMarket Communication Team) under the Camp Market Division. Incheon recognizes that active participation of citizens and asystematic record of historical and cultural assets are essential when settingthe future direction of the new park at Camp Market that will effectivelyreturn the former Army base into the arms of Incheon citizens for the firsttime in 80 years. Accordingly, the city is looking stimulate public discussion onCamp Market and open a dedicated archive. ▲Incheon is preparing forthe complete return of the Camp Market US Army Base in Bupyeong in 2022. Thecity government is laying the groundwork for Camp Market’s return driven by twopolicies: to actively reflect public opinion on how to develop a park at thesite of Camp Market, and how to preserve the 80-year history of Camp Marketwith the new park. Overview of Camp Market in Bupyeong Public discussion on Camp Market The public has differingopinions on the preservation and removal of buildings and arsenals at CampMarket, and concern over the risk of conflicting viewpoints boiling over onceZone D of Camp Market is returned is rising. The city of Incheon plansto gather the opinions and feedback of Incheon citizens about Camp Market withactivities such as the Citizens’ Participation Committee, “Camp MarketCitizens’ Public Discussion Project” (since 2017), and the “Communication Box”project (available in three locations). Furthermore, Incheon plans to collectfeedback on Camp Market through the Ca