Myeong Hyunkwan, Haenam County Governor, Accelerates Strategy for Coexistence of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Future Industries

Three MOUs Signed During U.S. Visit
"Follow-up Actions for Investment Attraction and More"

Haenam County in Jeollanam-do (Governor Myung Hyun-gwan) announced that it achieved remarkable results in expanding agricultural and marine product exports and attracting investment through its recent visit to the United States last month, thereby completing a key pillar of its future strategy plan.

On the 4th, Governor Myung Hyun-gwan stated at an open communication meeting attended by department heads and town/village chiefs, "During this visit to the United States, we signed three MOUs and had a busy schedule related to Haenam's future development. It was an opportunity to review the current status of agricultural and marine product exports, which the county is actively promoting, and to explore ways to expand them. Although it may be difficult to realize in the short term, we were able to confirm the potential for future industries such as attracting an international school and establishing an AI supercluster hub."

In particular, as the establishment of the AI supercluster hub has great growth potential as a national future strategic project, he requested that the county prepare a response plan and actively promote it in close cooperation with Jeollanam-do, Assemblyman Park Jie-won, and others, so that it can be reflected as a national project.

On the 27th of last month, from the left, Lee Sungok, Chairman of Haenam County Council, Park Changhwan, Vice Governor of Jeonnam Province for Economic Affairs, Myung Hyungwan, Mayor of Haenam County, Kim Youngrok, Governor of Jeonnam Province, Amin Badreldin Purhills, Co-Chairman, and Ko Hyungkwon, Vice Chairman of BS Industry, signed a business agreement to establish the Solar City AI Super Cluster Hub and took a commemorative photo. Provided by Haenam County

Governor Myung, County Council Chair Lee Sung-ok, Okcheon Nonghyup President Yoon Chi-young, and county officials visited the United States from the 22nd to the 28th of last month for seven days and six nights, signing three MOUs and surveying the local situation.

On the 24th of last month, they signed an MOU with WooltariUSA, a Los Angeles-based company specializing in the sale of agricultural and food products, to expand agricultural and food exports.

Through the 'Agricultural and Fishing Capital, Haenam' strategy, Haenam County has been actively promoting exports to realize high added value in agriculture and fisheries. Last year, the county signed an MOU with H Mart, the largest Korean-American supermarket in the United States. This year, it signed an MOU with WooltariUSA, a premium Korean agricultural and marine products distributor, to cooperate in expanding exports. WooltariUSA is equipped with optimal marketing capabilities for online shopping malls, so it is expected to secure new sales channels for Haenam's agricultural and marine specialty products in the future.

On the 25th of last month, they visited Redlands Christian School (RCS) in California and signed an MOU to attract an international school to the Solaseado Corporate City.

This MOU involved Myung Hyun-gwan, Governor of Haenam County; Lee Sung-ok, Chair of Haenam County Council; Kim Young-rok, Governor of Jeollanam-do; Todd Mattson, Chair of RCS; and Ko Hyung-kwon, Vice Chairman of BS Industry, as well as officials from Haenam County, Jeollanam-do, and BS Industry. Through the agreement, the county, Jeollanam-do, the RCS school corporation, and project stakeholders agreed to secure the feasibility of establishing the international school and to discuss realistic investment attraction measures through multifaceted cooperation. After the signing, they also toured the school campus to review the curriculum and conducted an on-site inspection.

With the amendment of the Special Act on Corporate City Development last year, it is now possible to establish elementary and secondary international schools within corporate cities. Accordingly, Haenam County, recognizing the need to improve the educational environment and secure stable settlement conditions for residents of the corporate city, agreed on the necessity of establishing an international school and actively cooperated with Jeollanam-do and project stakeholders to conduct this MOU through an on-site visit to a U.S. school.

Solaseado Corporate City, which is being developed as a self-sufficient city with a population of 36,600, is experiencing a breakthrough in attracting companies and population influx through the promotion of large-scale government projects and its designation as an Opportunity Development Zone focused on renewable energy and data centers. The county plans to actively attract educational institutions to vitalize the corporate city, seek ways to minimize the financial investment burden, and continuously build consensus among local residents regarding the establishment of an international school.

On the 26th of last month, an MOU was signed at the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco among Jeollanam-do, Fir Hills, and Southwest Coast Corporate City Development for the 'Solaseado AI Supercluster Hub Construction' project.

According to the agreement, Fir Hills plans to invest a total of 15 trillion KRW by 2030 to build the world's largest AI supercluster hub with over 3 gigawatts (GW) of AI computing infrastructure, data centers, and large-scale energy storage systems (ESS). As the AI and data center industry markets are rapidly growing, the establishment of a large-scale supercluster hub in Solaseado Corporate City is expected to attract global data specialist companies.

Governor Myung emphasized, "Although there will be many difficulties and challenges before the investment attraction achieved during this U.S. visit is realized, I believe it is a national future strategic industry worth pursuing if there is even a 1% chance. I will actively propose that it be promoted as a national project at the government level."

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