All Industries Allowed Except Industrial Complexes and Gambling Businesses

Government "Fostering New Industries and Promoting Convergence Between Industries"

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] The government has expanded the range of industries allowed to enter industrial complexes, excluding gambling businesses. This is to reorganize the complexes into spaces that promote the growth of new industries and the convergence between industries, and to revitalize the operation of industrial complexes.

On the 4th, the government held a Cabinet meeting at the Government Seoul Office, presided over by Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, where it reviewed and approved a total of 12 items, including the "Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Activation of Industrial Clusters and Factory Establishment," which contains these details.

The partially amended enforcement decree was prepared to expand the range of industries that can enter industrial complexes. Certain zones within the complexes will allow all industries except for some restricted ones to enter.

The current industrial facility zones, limited to manufacturing and knowledge industries, will be expanded to all industries except some restricted ones such as gambling businesses, in certain zones designated by industrial complex management guidelines, by introducing a negative entry regulation system based on the principle of permission by default and prohibition by exception.

For zones where the principle of permission by default and prohibition by exception does not apply, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy may promptly add permissible industries by public notice if deemed necessary to promote new industries or the convergence and complex development between industries.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy revised the enforcement decree to allow industries previously classified as service industries and not permitted to enter, such as e-commerce, prototype production and sales (makerspaces), automobile tuning-related services (sales, repair, education), and drone-related services (experience, education, assembly, aerial photography), to enter the industrial facility zones of industrial complexes.

The designation and operation procedures for industrial complexes that introduce the negative entry regulation system will be separately established in the industrial complex management guidelines and announced before the amended enforcement decree takes effect.

The Ministry also stipulated specific management measures for when rights holders receive monetary donations from owners for the increase in land value due to changes in the zoning of industrial land by use.

For national industrial complexes, the management agency will handle this, while for other cases outside national complexes, rights holders may acquire and manage the funds separately through distinct accounts or bookkeeping.

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