Aerospace Administration to Be Established in Sacheon, Gyeongnam

President Yoon Suk-yeol's transition committee has decided to establish the Aerospace Administration in Sacheon, Gyeongnam.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] The Korea Aerospace Agency, modeled after NASA, is expected to be established in Sacheon, Gyeongnam Province.

There was fierce competition between Sacheon and Daejeon for the site of the Aerospace Agency, a campaign promise of President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol, but the transition committee has finally selected Sacheon, Gyeongnam.

On the 23rd, the transition committee completed the final report on the establishment location of the Aerospace Agency to President-elect Yoon, and is considering relocating the Defense Acquisition Program Administration to Daejeon, which was a competing region.

A transition committee official said, "We selected the site considering that aerospace-related companies and research institutions such as Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and the Air Force are concentrated there," adding, "It is in keeping with President-elect Yoon's campaign promise."

Sacheon City proposed the establishment of the Aerospace Agency and its construction in Sacheon as a regional campaign project for the 20th presidential election in August last year, and announced in December that it had established plans to attract the Aerospace Agency to Sacheon.

In January this year, Sacheon delivered a petition for the establishment of the Aerospace Agency and its attraction to Sacheon to both the Democratic Party and the People Power Party, and in April, met with Vice Chairman Kwon Young-se of the transition committee at one-week intervals, visiting the National Assembly and the transition committee's Special Committee on Regional Balanced Development.

A city official said, "This is the result of a desperate effort, including forming the Aerospace Agency Sacheon TF team," adding, "It appears to stem from President-elect Yoon's will to create an aerospace cluster encompassing Yeongnam and Honam by developing launch vehicles in Sacheon and conducting test launches in Goheung, Jeonnam, where the Naro Space Center is located."

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