Goyang City to Promote Investment at '2025 Korea Software Expo'

Promotional Booths for Content, Software, and IT Companies

Goyang Special City in Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Donghwan) announced on December 2 that it will participate in the '2025 Korea Software Expo (AI × SoftWave 2025),' which will be held at COEX from December 3 to 5, by operating a promotional booth to showcase major development projects such as Ilsan Technovalley, the Free Economic Zone, and Changneung Phase 3 New Town.

Goyang City Engages in Investment Attraction Activities at the 2024 Korea Software Expo. Provided by Goyang Special City

The '2025 Korea Software Expo,' which has grown into the largest software-focused business exhibition in Korea and a leading software marketplace in Asia, will feature about 350 companies and organizations from the software and IT sectors operating approximately 550 booths. The large-scale exhibition is expected to attract more than 20,000 visitors, including businesses and investors from various fields such as packaged software, IT services, convergence software, internet software, and game/content software.

During the event, the city will conduct direct consultations with domestic and international companies in the core industries of Ilsan Technovalley-content, software, and IT-while also engaging in IR activities to build networks and attract companies through multifaceted promotional efforts.

Previously, the city operated consultation booths for major development projects such as Ilsan Technovalley, the Free Economic Zone, and Changneung Phase 3 New Town at the 15th International Pharmaceutical & Bio Industry Exhibition-the largest event in the pharmaceutical and bio sector in Korea held at KINTEX in April-and at the '2025 Digital Media Tech Show,' an exhibition of the latest digital technologies and content convergence including AI, metaverse, and big data, held in November.

In addition, the city held the '2025 Goyang Special City Investment Briefing' in Yeouido last November, where it comprehensively introduced Goyang's large-scale development projects and business support policies to domestic and international companies and provided an overview of the investment environment. The event was attended by over 100 businesspeople and investment stakeholders from the bio, content, IT, AI, and mobility sectors, who expressed interest in Goyang's future growth potential.

Meanwhile, the city is accelerating the Ilsan Technovalley project, which is being developed on approximately 860,000 square meters in Daehwa-dong, Ilsanseo-gu. On October 30, it began accepting applications for the sale of six knowledge-based facility sites (total area: 14,487 square meters, about 4,390 pyeong) in the southern section of Janghangsu-ro.

The land sale will be conducted through a competitive bidding process based on appraised values. The city aims to begin selling advanced manufacturing facility sites in the first half of 2026 and to offer land in the northern section of Janghangsu-ro in the second half of the same year, thereby accelerating the pace of the project.

Furthermore, the city is pursuing the designation of a Free Economic Zone to provide various tax benefits and incentives to foreign-invested companies in the bio, precision medicine, smart mobility, and K-culture sectors. Leveraging its geographic advantage of bordering Seoul, the city is also advancing the development of Changneung New Town as a future-oriented, self-sustaining, mixed-use city.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.