Daegu and Gyeongbuk University Students United for the 'Pohang Attraction' of the Secondary Battery Specialized Complex!

Declaration of Growth for Secondary Battery Experts - University Presidents Respond to Workforce Training

Paper Airplanes Launched to Wish for Pohang as a Secondary Battery Specialized Complex Site

On the 16th, Pohang City hosted a site tour for university students from Daegu and Gyeongbuk at the Pohang Blue Valley National Industrial Complex and Yeongilman General Industrial Complex, which lead the K-battery industry. The students expressed their shared commitment to attracting the national advanced strategic secondary battery specialized complex to Pohang.

Daegu-Gyeongbuk university students united in support of attracting the secondary battery specialized complex to Pohang.

The event was attended by over 200 people, including university students, presidents, and officials from five universities in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions: ▲Pohang University of Science and Technology ▲Handong Global University ▲Kyungpook National University ▲Pohang University ▲Korea Polytechnic University Pohang Campus.

On this day, the university students from Daegu and Gyeongbuk declared their determination to grow as secondary battery experts leading the global K-battery industry. The university presidents responded by pledging to unite their efforts to help students develop into talents who will contribute to the future development of the secondary battery industry.

In particular, the attendees enthusiastically launched paper airplanes high into the sky at POSCO Future M, a secondary battery anchor company located in the Blue Valley National Industrial Complex, expressing their united hope for Pohang’s selection as the secondary battery specialized complex.

Following this, the university students toured the Pohang campus of EcoPro, a key local secondary battery industry company located in the Yeongilman Industrial Complex, and attended a corporate briefing session to share the importance, value, and vision for the future development of the secondary battery industry.

Vice Mayor Kim Nam-il said, “As the university students from Daegu and Gyeongbuk launched paper airplanes filled with their hopes, we once again confirmed the passionate desire and will of local youth to attract the national advanced strategic secondary battery specialized complex to Pohang.” He added, “We will do our best to help Pohang leap forward as a global K-battery secondary battery industry hub city and to lead regional economic revitalization and job creation.”

Pohang has proactively focused on nurturing the secondary battery industry as a new future growth engine based on its steel industry foundation. The next-generation battery recycling regulatory free zone, designated in 2019, is the only one among 29 special zones nationwide to be recognized as an excellent zone for three consecutive years, making it the most successful special zone model.

Currently, global secondary battery companies such as POSCO Future M, EcoPro, and GS Construction are concentrated in the Blue Valley National Industrial Complex and Yeongilman General Industrial Complex. Pohang succeeded in attracting large-scale investments worth 5 trillion won in the first half of this year alone, and with additional expansions and new investments by companies, investments totaling 14 trillion won are planned through 2027.

Last year, Pohang led the nation with a production volume of 150,000 tons of cathode materials. By 2030, it is expected to firmly establish itself as a leading secondary battery industry city by producing 1 million tons of cathode materials and achieving sales of 70 trillion won.

The production inducement effect from attracting the secondary battery specialized complex to Pohang is expected to reach 23.3418 trillion won, the value-added inducement effect 9.559 trillion won, and the employment inducement effect 56,798 jobs.

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