Pohang Mayor Lee Kangduk Visits Europe to Explore Strategies for Future Core New Industry Development

Denmark, Norway, Austria... Benchmarking Successful Implementation of Key Issues

"Building Networks with Advanced Cities in New Growth Industries to Strengthen Global Competitiveness"

Pohang City announced that it has formed a delegation, including Mayor Lee Kangdeok, to visit Europe from the 19th to the 29th in order to foster future new growth industries and ensure the successful implementation of key projects.

Kang Deok, mayor of Pohang, is explaining the plan for a trip to Europe at the city hall briefing room on the 16th.

This visit aims to explore development strategies linked to future new growth industries such as energy, new industries, and smart agriculture and fisheries, and to establish exchange and cooperation systems with advanced countries in these fields. The delegation will visit Denmark, Norway, Austria, and other countries.

The delegation will first visit the Danish Energy Agency to learn about the renewable energy distribution policies of Nordic countries.

They will also visit the Middelgrunden offshore wind farm, which was built and is operated through investments from local residents, and arrange an exchange session between the Danish Fishermen's Association and Pohang's fishermen's organizations. They will discuss the process of establishing offshore wind farms and strategies for achieving mutual growth and resident acceptance.

The delegation will also visit companies to learn about renewable energy distribution policies and attract investment. Accompanied by the CEO of COP Korea, they will visit the headquarters of CIP/COP, which is currently collaborating with Pohang City on projects, to discuss strategies for future project success. They will also visit Vestas, the world's largest wind turbine company.

During this trip, they will also visit Nordic Harvest, Denmark's largest vertical smart farm, to observe advanced agricultural technologies firsthand.

In addition, they plan to visit the smart aquaculture farm and processing plant of Norway's NilsenWillicksen, which is jointly conducting cooperative projects with Pohang City, to establish an exchange and cooperation system for the successful implementation of Pohang's smart aquaculture cluster project.

The delegation will also visit Norway, which, as of 2023, boasts the world's highest electric vehicle adoption rate (83%) thanks to strong government and private sector policy support.

The city plans to visit the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association to understand responses to the current slowdown in domestic and international electric vehicle demand and to assess the outlook for the battery industry in European countries. Pohang will use this information to develop strategies for the global market as its battery industry continues to grow as a regional core industry.

They will also visit Morrow, Norway's largest battery cell company, which participated in last year's Pohang International Battery Conference, to explain Pohang's vision for the battery industry and request that Pohang be considered as a base for future expansion into Asia, while proposing ongoing exchange and cooperation plans.

The delegation will also benchmark strategies for gaining resident acceptance of essential local facilities. In particular, they will meet with mayors of major cities nationwide and in Austria to directly observe the operation and establishment process of facilities such as landfills and incinerators and their relationships with local residents.

To this end, they will visit sewage treatment plants and incinerators in central Vienna and nearby areas to explore ways to apply these models in Pohang.

Mayor Lee Kangdeok said, "This visit will further strengthen Pohang's network with European cities as it emerges as a global new industry city. We will thoroughly study advanced cases of new growth industries and incorporate them into Pohang's policies to further enhance the city's domestic and international competitiveness."

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