Gwangju Mayor Lee Yong-seop Visits Star and Premium Small Giants Companies Ahead of Chuseok

On the afternoon of the 23rd, ahead of Chuseok, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, visited local small and medium-sized enterprise TD-L Co., Ltd. located in Cheomdan 2 District, Buk-gu, and received an introduction to the products from CEO Kim Yoo-shin. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] On the afternoon of the 23rd, ahead of the Chuseok holiday, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, visited local small and medium-sized enterprise TD-L Co., Ltd., which is expanding its business area through new material development, to encourage workers and listen to their difficulties.

After inspecting the production facilities at TD-L's Gwangju Plant 2, Mayor Lee held a meeting with company officials and workers who have been struggling due to COVID-19, attentively listening to their voices from the field.

Founded in 2004, TD-L is a specialized parts and materials company that was selected as a Gwangju Premium Small Giant Company in 2018 and a regional star company last year. It has distinguished itself in the IT and manufacturing sectors based on research and development (R&D).

The company produces special auxiliary materials applied to displays, such as bonding sheets and protective films, and has succeeded in expanding overseas. Last year, to pioneer new markets, it built a factory in Naju Bitgaram Innovation City, establishing its own mass production system for next-generation batteries (secondary batteries, all-solid-state batteries).

In particular, since 2017, TD-L has participated annually in the ‘Gwangju Youth Work Experience Dream Project,’ providing young people with work experience opportunities and contributing to local talent recruitment by hiring more than 65% of participating youth as regular employees.

Kim Yoo-shin, CEO of TD-L, said, “Although there are many difficulties due to the overall economic downturn recently, we will closely analyze market trends and scale, focus investment on high value-added industrial sectors, and realize the company’s motto of being a ‘true leader in the digital age’ with a sales target of 30 billion KRW in 2022.”

Mayor Lee Yong-seop stated, “I thank TD-L for continuously securing competitiveness through new employment creation and pioneering various sales channels despite difficult circumstances. We will do our best to prepare for the post-COVID era and actively support local companies to gain competitiveness and lead regional economic growth.”

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