Jo Seung-rae and Hwang Jeong-ah "Leap to a Science Powerhouse, Build the Future City Yuseong"

Press Conference at the Special Zone Foundation Briefing Room... Daejeon Special Self-Governing City Act, Testbed Establishment, and Other Pledges

Democratic Party candidates Jo Seung-rae and Hwang Jeong-ah from Yuseong District are holding a joint press conference on the 25th at the briefing room of the Research and Development Special Zone Promotion Foundation. / Election Office

On the 25th, Democratic Party of Korea candidates Jo Seung-rae (Gap) and Hwang Jeong-a (Eul) from Yuseong District, Daejeon, announced a joint pledge to advance South Korea as a science powerhouse and to build the future city of Yuseong.

At a press conference held at the briefing room of the Research and Development Special Zone Promotion Foundation, the two candidates stated, “The incompetent, irresponsible, and shameless Yoon Seok-yeol administration has cut Yuseong’s ‘R&D budget,’ which is the lifeblood of Yuseong’s local economy, with a single word from the president, causing the present of Yuseong and the future of South Korea to collapse depending on the president’s mood.” They emphasized, “The Democratic Party of Korea will open the path for South Korea’s leap as a science powerhouse and the future city of Yuseong.”

They proposed pledges including △promoting the Daejeon Special Self-Governing City Act and additional legislative tasks △establishing testbeds △attracting science and technology-related institutions △restoring the R&D system.

They pledged to establish and attract the Aerospace Research and Development Headquarters in Yuseong, where aerospace R&D capabilities are concentrated, to complete the Yuseong cluster of the aerospace industry, which is South Korea’s future growth engine, and to prevent the relocation of the Korea Electric Power Technology Reactor Design Headquarters to Gimcheon, Gyeongbuk.

Along with this, they promised to legislate to allocate more than 5% of the national budget to R&D and to create a new position of Deputy Prime Minister for Science and Technology.

They also announced plans to enact the “Metropolitan Economic Zone Special Act” to create self-sustaining metropolitan economic zones and to establish a one-stop support system for ventures and startups to build an innovation belt led by Yuseong’s R&D and innovation capabilities within the metropolitan economic zone.

Furthermore, to ensure innovation that leaves no one behind, they pledged △comprehensive work-life balance measures such as supporting a 4.5-day workweek △promoting a national responsibility system for childcare including neighborhood elementary school care △and implementing a ‘Dream package’ that supports youth housing, employment, and assets to take responsibility for the present and future of young people.

Candidate Jo Seung-rae emphasized, “Yuseong is the center leading South Korea’s science, technology, and future,” adding, “We will elevate Yuseong into a ‘future city’ that can lead solutions to problems such as population crisis, regional extinction crisis, Korean Peninsula peace crisis, and livelihood crisis.”

Candidate Hwang Jeong-a said, “The only things left after two years of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration are the collapse of the livelihood economy and ‘silencing’,” and added, “With the greater strength of a third term and the strong driving force as co-chair of the Democratic Party’s central innovation campaign committee, we will make Yuseong the first to meet the future.”

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