Jeonnam Province Actively Supports Kang Ki-jung's Proposal for 'Yeonghonam Semiconductor Alliance'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] On the 16th, Jeonnam Province expressed support and a willingness to actively participate in the "Yeonghonam Semiconductor Alliance Formation Proposal" suggested by Kang Ki-jung, the elected mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City.

Earlier, on the 13th, Jeonnam Province expressed concerns that the recent controversial move to increase semiconductor departments centered on metropolitan universities would accelerate the crisis of local universities, and requested the Ministry of Education to resolve the semiconductor workforce shortage by establishing and expanding semiconductor departments in non-metropolitan universities.

Resolving the imbalance between the metropolitan area and local regions has been the top priority of successive governments to create a sustainable Republic of Korea.

The new government also included "an era of livable local regions anywhere in Korea" as a national agenda to break the vicious cycle of "metropolitan concentration-local extinction."

The province holds the position that, as with the new government's national agenda, it is necessary to promote future advanced industries in connection with local regions to achieve national balanced development and revive local areas facing extinction.

In particular, given that industrial infrastructure and workforce are already concentrated in the metropolitan area, if advanced national industries including semiconductors are again fostered centered on the metropolitan area, local extinction and national territorial imbalance will inevitably worsen.

Jeonnam Province explained that to prevent further concentration in the already oversized metropolitan area, it is necessary to unite the power of local solidarity and win-win cooperation between Yeongnam and Honam regions.

The province and Gwangju City have already announced their plan to adopt the "semiconductor industry" as a cooperative task for mutual growth between Gwangju and Jeonnam and to promote it as the top priority cooperation task of the 8th local government administration to build a "super-regional economic community."

Jeonnam Province plans to continuously strengthen cooperation between cities and provinces to enhance local capabilities and achieve national balanced development, including the Yeonghonam Semiconductor Alliance.

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