Government to Create SoBuJang Statistics... Expanded to Include Materials, Components + 'Equipment'

Ministry of Industry Builds Comprehensive SoBuJang Portal 'SoBuJangNet'
Actively Reflecting Industrial Changes... Easier for Companies to Use

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Haeyoung] The government is expanding the scope of statistics for materials, parts, and equipment (SoBuJang) from the previous materials and parts to materials, parts, and equipment. This is to actively reflect industrial changes as the connectivity between materials, parts, and equipment has recently strengthened and the scope of materials and parts has broadened due to convergence and fusion.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy is establishing and will operate the SoBuJang comprehensive portal 'SoBuJang.net' starting from the 9th, which provides SoBuJang policies, companies, technologies, and statistics all in one place.

SoBuJang.net is an expanded and reorganized version of the existing Materials and Parts Comprehensive Information Network. It allows users to check all relevant SoBuJang information previously provided by various institutions such as the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, and the Korea Institute for Industrial Technology in one place.

Most importantly, the existing 'materials and parts' statistics have been expanded and reorganized into 'materials, parts, and equipment' statistics. This follows the full revision of the Special Act on the Materials, Parts, and Equipment Industry in April last year, which changed the scope of SoBuJang. Accordingly, the statistical classification system increased from 11 to 16 categories in the major classification, from 91 to 104 in the middle classification, and from 213 to 251 items in the detailed classification.

An official from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy explained, "The reorganization differentiates materials and parts by broadly including manufacturing equipment for materials and parts in each industry, as well as testing, analysis, and measuring instruments to improve reliability," adding, "This includes precision processing equipment, industrial process equipment, semiconductor and display equipment, manufacturing robot automation equipment, and measuring instruments."

The scope of materials and parts statistics also added new policy targets requiring support, such as industrial gases, knitted yarns, and knitted goods.

The ministry official stated, "By comprehensively providing SoBuJang-related information on SoBuJang.net, awareness of the importance of the SoBuJang industry will be enhanced, and companies will be able to more easily utilize policy project services," and added, "It is expected to also assist in the government's SoBuJang policy promotion and in analyzing industrial trends in the SoBuJang industry and related academia."

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