Seoul City and Gyeongbuk Province Join Hands to Promote 'Metaverse' Project

On the 18th at Seoul City Hall, the first metaverse business agreement signed between local governments

Discovering metaverse policies by sector, promoting collaborative projects, supporting private-level exchanges

Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Seoul Metropolitan Government and Gyeongbuk Province have agreed to cooperate in promoting metaverse projects to provide proactive metaverse services to city and provincial residents in the new digital environment and to maximize mutual synergy effects.

On the 18th, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and Gyeongbuk Governor Lee Cheol-woo attended the signing of the first-ever 'Metaverse Business Agreement' between local governments at Seoul City Hall.

This is a new collaboration model where metropolitan local governments join hands to jointly respond in order to preoccupy the rapidly emerging metaverse across all sectors of industry and society.

Through this business agreement, the two city and provincial governments have established metaverse cooperation in five areas.

① Seoul and Gyeongbuk will share metaverse projects and cooperate to enhance technology to lead the exemplary metaverse era.

② Both city and province will actively strive to discover policies using metaverse in fields such as talent, industry, culture, and tourism, and promote collaborative projects.

③ A biannual 'Seoul-Gyeongbuk Metaverse Collaboration Meeting' will be held.

④ Support will be provided to facilitate active exchanges at the private level among metaverse companies, institutions, and universities located in the region.

⑤ To successfully promote the collaboration model, the two governments will continue exchanges and cooperation, including establishing the 'Seoul-Gyeongbuk Metaverse Alliance' in the future.

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said, “The new digital continent called the metaverse is already before us. Seoul and Gyeongbuk will cooperate to offer new concept services based on the next-generation platform, the metaverse, to city and provincial residents, thereby enhancing urban competitiveness.”

Gyeongbuk Governor Lee Cheol-woo said, “From now on, all government offices and companies will enter the metaverse era. Seoul and Gyeongbuk will join hands to create new sources of income through the metaverse and lead the future.”

Last October, Seoul announced the 'New Continent of Seoul, Metaverse Seoul Basic Plan,' the first of its kind nationwide, and declared that it will gradually implement metaverse services across all areas of city administration, including economy, culture, tourism, education, and civil affairs, by 2025.

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