Yisang-il, Mayor of Yongin, "Realizing 'Yongin Renaissance' Combining Advanced Industry and Culture·Arts"

Visit to Etopia Center in Zaragoza, Spain
"Will strengthen convergence among Media Center, Cultural Foundation, and Industry Promotion Agency"

Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, currently visiting Spain to attend the Mobile World Congress (MWC), expressed his commitment to realizing the 'Yongin Renaissance,' which integrates advanced technology with culture and arts.

On the 26th (local time), Mayor Lee visited the Etopia Center for Art & Technology in Zaragoza to tour the site where digital industry and culture and arts converge.

Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin City, who visited the Itopia Art Technology Center in Zaragoza, Spain, is inspecting the facility under the guidance of Marina Abad?a, Chief Officer of Urban Services.
[Photo by Yongin City]

Zaragoza, located in the Aragon region of Spain, was the capital and cultural center of the Kingdom of Aragon during the medieval period. Notably, the Etopia Center, established in Zaragoza in 2013, is renowned as a complex space for education, exhibition, and creation that fuses digital technology, science, and art. It is equipped with laboratories, creative and startup spaces, as well as performance halls, exhibition rooms, and classrooms, conducting various fusion experiments.

The Yongin City delegation, including Mayor Lee, toured the facilities under the guidance of Marina Abad?a, Chief Officer of Urban Services.

Mayor Lee evaluated, "The fusion of digital technology and culture and arts is becoming increasingly important, and new industries are actively being created through this. In this context, the Zaragoza Etopia Center seems to play an excellent supportive role well aligned with the trends of the times."

He added, "Yongin City can also enhance convergence among the Media Center, Cultural Foundation, and Industrial Promotion Agency to foster creativity. We will study the case of the Etopia Center and consider applying it to the 'Small Business and Startup Hub' opening in June."

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