Changwon Special City Invites Defense Attaches from 32 Countries in Korea... Exploring Defense Industry Development

Building a Global Defense Industry Network

Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam will host a security industry field tour and a cooperation meeting between large, medium, and small defense companies by inviting defense attach?s stationed in Korea from the 2nd to the 3rd.

This event is jointly organized by the Ministry of National Defense and the Gyeongnam Regional Small and Medium Venture Business Administration, with over 70 participants including 36 defense attach?s from 32 countries stationed in Korea and their families. This is the second time the event has been held, following last year.

On the first day of the event, the 2nd, the defense attach?s will visit defense system companies Hanwha Aerospace and Hyundai Rotem, and on the 3rd, they will visit six companies including Hyupsin Hydraulics, TIC, Hanseong S&I, Beomhan Industry, Youngpoong Electronics, and SNT Dynamics to directly observe Changwon Special City's defense industry infrastructure and world-class K-defense technology.

Overseas military attach?s are visiting Hanwha Aerospace and listening to the company introduction.

At the meeting held on the afternoon of the 2nd, about 150 people including defense attach?s stationed in Korea, defense system companies, and executives and employees of small and medium-sized enterprises participated. The meeting focused on ▲introducing Changwon Special City's defense industry capabilities and defense companies ▲defense industry development plans ▲discussions on global defense industry trends and cooperation methods ▲networking between small and medium defense companies and foreign defense attach? groups.

The city plans to use this event as an opportunity to establish relationships between the defense attach?s stationed in Korea and defense companies in the Changwon area that can be independently branded, securing potential global defense export partnerships and promoting the city's defense industry capabilities worldwide.

Hong Nampyo, Mayor of Changwon Special City, stated, “On the 50th anniversary of the Changwon National Industrial Complex, we plan to rapidly transform the complex into an advanced smart manufacturing process integrated with ICT technology, supporting skill-up and process advancement in the defense industry to develop Changwon into a world-class defense city.” He added, “We will do our best to foster the defense industry as a future growth advanced industry and security industry and will spare no support.”

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