Pohang City Fosters Future New Industry 'Food Tech' ... Related Agencies Collaborate

Food Tech Development Plan Forum... Discussion on Industry-Academia-Research-Government Collaboration for Advancement

New Pathways for Future Food Industry, Diverse Discussions on Food Tech Industry

To foster and revitalize the food tech industry, Pohang City and related organizations put their heads together.

On the 31st, Pohang City held a forum on fostering the food tech industry at the Yeonoseo Office in City Hall.

On the 31st, Pohang City held a discussion forum on ‘Strategies for Fostering the Pohang Food Tech Industry’ with various stakeholders from the food tech industry, including Pohang University of Science and Technology, Handong Global University, Neuromeka, Delight Food, and the Pohang Food Industry Business Association.

This forum was organized to identify regulatory improvement tasks for fostering the food tech industry and to discuss development plans through collaboration among industry, academia, research, and government, as Pohang City is moving swiftly to secure a leading position in future promising markets.

At the meeting, Professor Kim Yong-an from the Department of Food Tech Convergence at Pohang University of Science and Technology delivered a keynote speech on ‘Development Plans for the Pohang Food Tech Industry,’ and Kim Mi-sook, Director of the Food Industry Division, presented the ‘Plan for Promoting the Creation of the Pohang Food Tech Industry Cluster.’

Following this, under the chairmanship of Vice Mayor Jang Sang-gil of Pohang City, participants engaged in in-depth discussions by sector on cooperation measures to foster the food tech industry.

During the discussion, opinions were expressed on the need to introduce food robots and digital technologies to overcome crises such as labor shortages in the dining industry and high inflation, along with forecasts that home meal replacements and alternative foods will become new avenues for the food industry due to global warming and the increase in single-person households.

There was also a consensus that fostering the food tech industry requires creating an environment, including infrastructure and awareness improvement, so that the food and dining industries can embrace advanced technologies.

Additionally, it was agreed that infrastructure to support food tech startup creation and research should be established, and an ecosystem combining traditional food industries with advanced technologies should be developed.

Vice Mayor Jang Sang-gil stated, “We will do our best to foster the food tech industry by discovering policies with high public impact based on a close cooperative network among related organizations.”

Pohang City plans to actively promote projects that citizens can feel, such as ▲establishing a Food Tech Research Support Center to create R&D startup infrastructure ▲expanding public consensus through education and promotion on food tech ▲building food tech infrastructure for the food industry and spreading digital platforms.

Furthermore, to this end, the city plans to enact ordinances and organically cooperate with local institutions as well as the government and Gyeongbuk Province to establish a system for nurturing companies and supporting startups, and to promote the creation of a food tech innovation cluster.

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