Incheon Songdo 'Bio Hub Leap' Infrastructure Established... Two Bio Centers Groundbreaking

Two centers supporting the training of bio-specialized personnel and advanced research and development will be established in Songdo International City, Incheon.

The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority and Yonsei University held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Bio Process Workforce Training Center and the Pharmaceutical Bio Commercialization Center on the 9th at Yonsei University's International Campus in Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu. Both centers are scheduled to be completed by the end of next year, with a total project cost of 92 billion KRW.

The Bio Process Workforce Training Center will be built on a site with a total floor area of 6,600㎡, consisting of one basement floor and four above-ground floors, equipped with bio process practice facilities that comply with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards for excellent pharmaceutical manufacturing and quality control.

This center plans to train about 2,000 specialized bio-pharmaceutical production personnel annually by educating current employees and job seekers.

The Pharmaceutical Bio Commercialization Center, to be constructed right next to it, will be built on a 18,000㎡ site with one basement floor and six above-ground floors. This center will establish infrastructure for bio process development and research, including GMP facilities and process equipment rooms, supporting industry-academia cooperation.

Bird's-eye view of the Bio Process Workforce Training Center [Provided by Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority]

The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority expects that the establishment of the two centers will play a key role in creating an innovative bio-industry ecosystem. In particular, with infrastructure added to the Songdo Bio Cluster, which houses global bio companies, startups, and research institutions, Songdo is expected to leap forward as a world-class bio hub.

Songdo, which possesses the world's largest bio-pharmaceutical production capacity of 880,000 liters based on a single city, is home to Korea's top bio companies such as Celltrion, Samsung Biologics, and SK Bioscience, as well as global companies like Merck and Sartorius, either already settled or under construction, establishing a world-class bio cluster.

Additionally, Songdo has been selected as the site for the 'K-Bio Lab Hub' project, benchmarked after the Boston Bio Cluster in the United States, bringing together bio startups and promising companies.

Kim Jin-yong, head of the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, stated, "The groundbreaking of the two centers will be an important milestone for the Songdo Bio Cluster to advance beyond Korea to become a global cluster, and it is expected to play a crucial role in creating an industry-academia-research-hospital ecosystem."

Location map of Songdo Bio Process Workforce Training Center and Pharmaceutical Bio Commercialization Center [Provided by Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority]

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