Pohang Mayor Lee Gang-deok Requests Gyeongbuk Province Support for Regional Issues That Will Change South Korea's Future

Meeting with Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk on the 23rd, Emphasizing the Necessity of Establishing a POSTECH Research-Oriented Medical School

Mayor Lee Kang-deok: "We Will Lead Exemplary Cases of Power and National Balanced Development Togeth

Mayor Lee Kang-deok of Pohang met with Gyeongbuk Governor Lee Cheol-woo immediately after the ‘2023 Gyeongbuk Residents' Day’ event held on the 23rd to request cooperation on major local issues such as the establishment of a POSTECH research-oriented medical school and the improvement of infrastructure in the Blue Valley National Industrial Complex.

On the 23rd, immediately after the '2023 Gyeongbuk Residents' Day' event, Lee Kang-deok, Mayor of Pohang, met with Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, to actively request cooperation on major local issues.

First, Mayor Lee Kang-deok proposed to Gyeongbuk Province to actively support the establishment of the ‘POSTECH research-oriented medical school,’ emphasizing that as the government has officially announced the expansion of medical school admissions for the 2025 academic year and public attention is focused on the scale and allocation of the increase, and the President has also stressed the importance of training physician-scientists.

This move stems from a sense of crisis that without a system to train physician-scientists, if another pandemic like COVID-19 occurs, the biohealth industry and the national economy will inevitably suffer setbacks.

Mayor Lee stated, “From the perspective of national balanced development, urgent measures are needed to address the poor medical services in Gyeongbuk, and fundamental solutions such as establishing a foundation for training physician-scientists are necessary,” and requested active support for the establishment of the POSTECH research-oriented medical school and smart hospital to nurture new talents who will lead medical innovation alongside the bioindustry.

He also emphasized, “To successfully train physician-scientists in Korea’s medical education system, which has been focused solely on training practicing doctors, POSTECH’s approach of teaching engineering and medicine simultaneously must be attempted together.”

Along with this, Mayor Lee also proposed early changes to the land leveling and industrial complex plans for infrastructure improvement in the Pohang Blue Valley National Industrial Complex, and requested active cooperation from the provincial government to ensure that infrastructure such as power and water is promptly established in line with the corporate investment roadmap.

Mayor Lee Kang-deok said, “Pohang, where infrastructure for secondary batteries, the hydrogen economy, and the bioindustry has been established, is a key city that will lead the future economy not only in Gyeongbuk but nationally,” and added, “Together with Gyeongbuk Province, we will devote all our efforts to nurturing talents including physician-scientists and creating the optimal environment for companies to invest, making Pohang’s own strategy a model case for the local era.”

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