Bystronic Group of Swiss, Opened a New Facility, Largest in Asia With the global big names, including the top 3 metal processingcompanies of the world, moving in to town, Songdo International City of IFEZ istaking a leap forward as a global base for machine tools and processingmachines industry. IFEZ announced that the opening ceremony of the businessfacility of Bystronic Korea, a South Korean incorporation of Bystronic Group,was held at the Knowledge and Information Industries Complex (11-108, Sector 4)of Songdo-dong on the 9th. ▲ With the global big names, including the top 3 metalprocessing companies of the world, moving in to town, Songdo International Cityof IFEZ is taking a leap forward as a global base for machine tools andprocessing machines industry. IFEZ announced that the opening ceremony of thebusiness facility of Bystronic Korea, a South Korean incorporation of BystronicGroup, was held at the Knowledge and Information Industries Complex (11-108,Sector 4) of Songdo-dong on the 9th. The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy General ManagerYongwon Sung of IFEZ, CEO Alex Waser of Bystronic Group, CEO Yeongcheol Choi ofBystronic Korea, and Swiss Ambassador to Korea, H.E. Dagmar Schmidt Tartagli,etc. 100% owned by Bystronic Group of Swiss, Bystronic Korea completedits new business facility by investing 10 billion won as the total projectbudget after its investment contract that was signed in December 2018. The sitearea of the project is 3,360m2. The facility is composed of the main office of the incorporationas well as the facilities for exhibition and training centers (Brand ExperienceCenter.) The exhibition and training center that opened this time is thelargest among all such centers of Bystronic Group across Asia. The exhibitionand training center is planned as the venue for training the engineers of Asiancountries on the products as well as the South Korean customers and is expectedto be visited by hundreds of visitors every year. ▲ Bystronic Grou

IncheonMetropolitan City's Intelligent Informatization English White Paper GoesOverseas Incheon Metropolitan City'sexcellent informatization projects are produced in English and known abroad. Incheon Metropolitan City announcedthat it has produced and published the English version of the 「 2019-2021 Incheon White Paper on Intelligent Informatization (IncheonDigitally Blossoms) 」 by collecting cases of intelligentinformatization promoted over the past three years. Earlier, in February, the city published the 「 2019-2021 Incheon White Paper on Intelligent Informatization (IncheonDigitally Blossoms) 」 , which was the first in the countryto contain outstanding achievements in intelligent informatization. The cityexplained that it has produced an English white paper to publicize theexcellence of intelligent informatization not only in Korea but also abroad. The English white paper will bedistributed to international organizations and overseas sister cities, and willbe serviced on the city website in the form of an e-book. In addition, it willbe introduced at an international event in November in cooperation with theInternational Organization (UNAPCICT) located in Incheon. The white paper is dividedinto 4 fields and contains cases by field (30 cases), and ▲ Digitalcommunication administration with citizens (7 cases) ▲ Faster and smarterIncheon data administration (9 cases) ▲ Warm-hearted information welfare andadministrative services (7 cases) ▲ The nation's first and best Incheon smartcity (7 cases), etc. are included. ※ For the list by field, please checkReference. Details of the 30 cases by field of the Incheon IntelligentInformatization White Paper can be found on the Incheon Metropolitan CityInformation Disclosure Portal and foreign language website. Yeo Jung-hyeop,head of the city planning and coordination office, said, "I expect thatthe excellence of our city's informatization will be widely known through theintelligent informatization English wh

Incheon Metropolitan City secures 1 billion won in government funds...Built 360°VR in Songdo Convensia Incheon Metropolitan City has taken astep forward as an international MICE city as it has been selected for thefourth consecutive year in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’sInternational Conference Complex Revitalization Competition. Incheon Metropolitan City and IncheonTourism Organization were selected for the competition of ‘2022 InternationalConference Complex Revitalization Support Project’ hosted by the Ministry ofCulture, Sports and Tourism, and secured 510 million won in government funds. ▲ IncheonMetropolitan City has been selected for the International Conference ComplexRevitalization Project by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for fourconsecutive years from 2019 to this year. The Songdo International ConferenceComplex was designated for the first time in the country in 2018. The photoshows the International Conference Complex. Since the Songdo InternationalConference Complex was designated for the first time in the country in 2018(2.98 ㎢ in the area of Songdo Convensia), Incheon MetropolitanCity has been selected for the 4th consecutive year from 2019 to this year inthe Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's International Conference ComplexRevitalization Project. The International Conference Complex isdesignated for the purpose of strengthening the brand and competitiveness ofthe host city by integrating related facilities such as hotels, shopping, andperformances centering on the convention center, and it is located in fivelocations, such as Incheon, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, and Goyang, Gyeonggi. Incheon has invested 2.8 billion won inthis project until last year, solidifying its position as an international MICEcity. In particular, last year, as a part ofthe meeting technology support project that reflected the MICE trend, a virtualstudio, 3D online conference platform, and hologram theater were built, and inaddition,

▲ The 3rdIncheon International Ocean Forum (IIOF 2022), co-hosted by the Ministry ofOceans and Fisheries and sponsored by Incheon Port Authority and Yonhap News,will be held from July 21 to 22 at the Songdo Convensia Grand Ballroom inIncheon, the center of the maritime and port industry. The photo shows the 2ndIncheon International Ocean Forum in 2021. The Incheon International Ocean Forum(IIOF), the only international ocean forum in the metropolitan area, will beheld for the third time in Incheon, a global maritime logistics city. The 3rd Incheon International OceanForum (IIOF 2022), co-hosted by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries andsponsored by Incheon Port Authority and Yonhap News, will be held from July 21to 22 at the Songdo Convensia Grand Ballroom in Incheon, the center of themaritime and port industry. To prepare for the forum, theinauguration ceremony of the Planning Committee was held at the Incheon PortAuthority’s conference room on the 10th, and 7 experts from various fields,including △ Park Jong-tae, president of IncheonNational University, as the chairman of the Planning Committee, and △ Kwon Pyong-oh, the chair-professor of Korea Maritime Ocean University, Hong Jong-ho, professor at Seoul National UniversityGraduate School of Environment, Kim Hyun-jung, professor of political scienceand foreign affairs at Yonsei University, Park Jae-ah, Korea branch manager ofIndonesia Ministry of Creative Economy and Tourism, Kang Sung-ho, director of KoreaPolar Research Institute, and Lee Ho-cheol, vice president of Incheon NationalUniversity, as the members of the Planning Committee, were appointed. The Committee, launched on this day, wasformed to promote a successful forum by discussing the overall structure andoperation of the forum. At the meeting presided over by Chairman Park, theforum initiation report, selection of keynote speakers, and speaker compositionwere discussed. The forum is planned to consist of aneve, an opening ceremony, keynote spee

Opens on April 29 and runs on Friday and Saturday every week atsunset. Now things are going back to normal. It is the best time to tryIncheon City Tour, which allows you to enjoy the city’s past, future, downtown,beach, daytime, and nighttime. The City of Incheon and Incheon Tourism Organization launchedthe Sunset and Night View Tour, allowing you to enjoy the beautiful sunset andnight view, starting on April 29. With this marking the beginning, the entirety of the sevenroutes of Incheon City Tours is now back in operation. As things are going backto normal, it is expected that these services will serve the various needs oftourists. ▲ Incheon City Tour Bus The Sunset and Night View Tour runs every Friday and Saturdayuntil October 29. This splendid double-decker bus will depart at sunset andcross Incheon Bridge to take you to Wangsan marina, where you can enjoy thebreathtaking crimson sunset sky before it returns. The Sunset and Night ViewTour is closed during winter. Incheon City Tour includes other routes than the Sunset andNight View Tour, as well. There was the Incheon Retro route, where the buscirculates over a certain course, and the passengers can get off and get backon at any stop they like, and the sea route. The Incheon Retro Route is an extension of the previous OpenPort route toward the old downtown area, expanding and diversifying the tourismareas to include Sinpo International Marketplace, Sudoguksan Museum of Housing Living, Hwapyeongdong Cold Noodle Alley, etc. The traditionally popularSea Route, which circulates between Songdo International City and Yongjong-do,continues its operation, as well. In addition, the leading tourist destinations of Incheon aregrouped under a single theme. These theme routes guide the visitors to the endof their journey with a tour guide on board. There are four available themetrips which are, respectively, Incheon Time Travel, Sorae Wharf, the History ofGanghwa, and Ganghwa Healing. The theme routes are designed so th

The city to install 30 stops and connect the line with the LineB of GTX (GTX-B) The City of Incheon commenced its ‘Songdo Tram CommercializationStrategy Development Project,’ which is a research project to be commissioned toa third party to introduce a tram system within Songdo International City whichis a part of the Incheon Free Economic Zone. The purpose of this project is to develop the projectimplementation strategies for the ‘Songdo Tram’ project, which has beenincluded in the ‘Incheon Urban Railway System Establishment Plan (Revision),’which was approved by the Ministry of Land and Transportation in January thisyear, in the third-highest place in terms of priority. ▲ The ‘Songdo Tram’ is a project to build a high-quality tramline for expanding urban railway services in connection with GTX-B whileenhancing the transportation services provided to the residents of SongdoInternational City. A map of Songdo Tram routes. The ‘Songdo Tram’ is a project to build a high-quality tram linefor expanding urban railway services in connection with GTX-B while enhancingthe transportation services provided to the residents of Songdo InternationalCity. The tram system will circulate over a route connecting SongdoMoonlight Festival Park Station (Incheon Line No. 1), Incheon NationalUniversity Station, Yonsei University, BIT Zone station, and back to SongdoMoonlight Festival Park Station, over a total length of 23.06km and 30 stops,with a rail depot that is to be constructed. The total project budget is 442.9billion won; 265.7 billion won (60%) of this will be funded by the centralgovernment. In December 2018, the city got a green light from the Ministryof Land and Transportation to go on with its ‘Incheon Urban Railway SystemConstruction Plan.’ This plan included installing a tram line over the entiresectors of Phase 1 of the Songdo Internal Circulation Line and the candidateroutes of the entirety of the said internal circulation line. Then, in consid

Selected for the ‘Future Space Education Center’project in the aerospace sector Incheon City, which leads the aviation maintenance business (MRO), willalso play a leading role in the space industry. Incheon City and Inha University were selected for the ‘Future SpaceEducation Center’ project in the aerospace field, which was openly recruited bythe Ministry of Science and ICT. The “Future Space Education Center” trains young space experts who cansolve future space problems and lead new technologies. An education center isinstalled at the Aerospace Industry-Academic Convergence Center located inSongdo, and it is operated together with the Department of AerospaceEngineering at Inha University. Through the selection of this open recruitment,5 billion won in government funds will be secured for five years until 2026. To attract this project, Incheon City has formed a total of 22 consortiumsincluding universities, research institutes, and companies. In the future, the education center plans to train 45 professionals a yearwith master's and doctoral degrees with expertise to conduct future spacetechnology research. In addition, it plans to develop autonomous precision celestial navigationtechnology required for lunar exploration through industry, academia, researchand government cooperation, lunar exploration rover and electrolytic thrusterto mine water resources buried on the moon, and core space technologies thatcan be directly used in the domestic lunar probe development project scheduledfor 2030. ▲ Scenarios for resource utilization of lunar poles and Mars exploration The Aerospace Industry-University Convergence Center is a specializedinstitution composed of 50 specialized research personnel to create anindustry-university convergence district through aerospace convergence and composition,to foster new future industries, and to nurture RD and aviationprofessionals. The city expects that this education center will greatly contribute to theadvancement and

Performance of attracting investment from globalcompanies in the future car industry The achievements of attracting investment from global companies in thefuture car industry, which Incheon City is focusing on as a key strategicindustry for the future, are gradually becoming visible. The city announced that MCNEX, a leading autonomous-driving company thatjoined the 1 trillion club in sales and the city succeeded in attractinginvestment last year, had completed the relocation of its headquarters andresearch center to Songdo and started work on the 4th. ▲ The city announced that MCNEX, a leading autonomous-driving company thatjoined the 1 trillion club in sales and the city succeeded in attractinginvestment last year, had completed the relocation of its headquarters andresearch center to Songdo and started work on the 4th. The picture is a view ofMCNEX's Songdo office building (headquarters). MCNEX is a leading company in autonomous driving technology that developsand produces image sensing autonomous driving systems including electroniccomponents such as mobile camera modules, biometric sensors, and vehicle cameras,and it is a listed company on the KOSPI that achieved annual sales of KRW 1trillion as of last year. In particular, in the field of vehicle cameras used in autonomous drivingtechnology, it has the largest market share in Korea and the fifth in theworld, and is also prominent in the field of biometric technology sensors. In October of last year, the city signed an investment attraction businessagreement with MCNEX to relocate the headquarters and research center in GasanDigital Complex, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul to Songdo, and to foster and develop thefuture car parts industry through autonomous driving technology RDcooperation, etc. ▲ Autonomous-driving car developed by MCNEX (image provided by MCNEX) After that, MCNEX purchased a new building with a total floor area of​​27,870 m² (1 basement level – 13 above ground) in Songdo Free Economic Zone(Sect

Recruitment ofcandidates in 3 fields of the Youth Startup Branch For the first time this year, the IncheonFree Economic Zone Authority and Incheon Technopark are attracting attention bystarting youth support projects leading to the so-called 'Cradle to TIPS (TechIncubator Program for Startup)' in order to create jobs for young peoplethrough nurturing startups. ▲ For the first time this year, theIncheon Free Economic Zone Authority and Incheon Technopark are attractingattention by starting youth support projects leading to the so-called 'Cradleto TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startup)' in order to create jobs for youngpeople through nurturing startups. The three programs, including the 'YouthStartup Branch', consist of providing startup business education for youngpeople, consulting on startup technology verification for young entrepreneurs, andsupporting them to be selected for TIPS, the technology startup investmentprogram of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. Each program is characterized by providingstep-by-step support to inspire young people to challenge startups, discoversand nurtures excellent startups, and finally achieve results through TIPSselection. In this process, there are many benefits, such as support forupgrading products or services of excellent startups. ▲ Internal facilities of Incheon Startup Park located inSongdo The Incheon Economic Administrationrecruits young start-ups and young people in three areas, including △ Youth Startup Branch, △ Youth EntrepreneurshipProgram, △Youth TIPS Incubation. First, the Youth Startup Branch Programprovides startups with opportunities to secure excellent manpower throughnetworking by operating education for startup business and 4th industrialtechnology-based practice for young people in the district. Five resident companies and supportingcompanies of Incheon Startup Park will be selected as mentors, and they willconduct technical seminars and education by matching with university (graduate)student

Leading the hydrogen public transportation era with hydrogen anchor companies such as Hyundai Motor Company, SK ES, and Plug powerOn March 30th, Incheon started fostering the hydrogen industry in earnest by attracting investment from Plug Power, a world-class company in the hydrogen industry, and through the conversion of hydrogen public transportation.On the same day, Incheon Metropolitan City signed a 'business agreement for attracting investment from global first-class hydrogen companies' and 'a business agreement for creating a leading city for hydrogen public transportation' with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Environment, Korea Land and Housing Corporation, SK ES, Hyundai Motor Company, Plug Power, etc., and they agreed together to foster the hydrogen industry promoted by Incheon.▲ On March 30th, Incheon started fostering the hydrogen industry in earnest by attracting investment from Plug Power, a world-class company in the hydrogen industry, and through the conversion of hydrogen public transportation.Business agreement to attract investment from global first-class hydrogen companiesIn the meantime, the city has been working with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy to prepare an investment base such as suitable land and electricity supply to attract investment from Plug Power, a global first-class hydrogen company.In particular, Park Namchoon, Mayor of Incheon, met with Plug Power CEO Andrew Marsh in October of last year to attract investment and introduced the plan to build a hydrogen cluster in the Cheongna region, drawing a lot of sympathy.Plug Power is a global hydrogen company that occupies 95% of the hydrogen forklift market in the US and has core technology for water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen. It established a joint venture in Asia with SK ES in January and built a fuel cell and water electrolysis facility* production system (Giga-factory) in Cheongna, Incheon, and plans to enter the Asian market as we