Sacheon City Council Passes Proposal Urging Establishment of Aerospace Industry Promotion Agency in Sacheon

Establishment of the Aerospace Industry Promotion Agency
Expected to Spur Regional Development

The Sacheon City Council in South Gyeongsang Province passed a resolution titled "Proposal Urging the Establishment of the Aerospace Industry Promotion Agency in Sacheon City" at the 2nd plenary session of its 288th extraordinary meeting. The proposal was sponsored by Assemblyman Kim Minkyu and co-sponsored by all council members.

The proposal, adopted on the 9th, was prepared to urge the government to establish the Aerospace Industry Promotion Agency, an industrial development institution that will implement the government's aerospace policy on the ground, in Sacheon City, where the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) is located.

Group photo of the Sacheon City Council urging the establishment of the Aerospace Industry Promotion Institute in Sacheon.

Sacheon is the only city where the Korea AeroSpace Administration is installed and is regarded as South Korea's leading aerospace industry city, with a full-cycle aerospace industrial ecosystem encompassing design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), clustered around Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI).

Assemblyman Kim Minkyu, who sponsored the proposal, stressed, "Sacheon is a core hub where 52% of domestic aerospace industry sales and 44% of its workforce are concentrated," adding, "Since the Aerospace Industry Promotion Agency is an industrial development institution under the jurisdiction of the Korea AeroSpace Administration that implements policy in the field, it must be established in Sacheon, where companies are concentrated, in order to fulfill its essential role of linking to corporate growth and industrialization."

Using the adoption of this proposal as a momentum, the Sacheon City Council plans to deliver an official written proposal to the government and to continue making recommendations so that a national aerospace strategy system connecting Daejeon (research and development), Sacheon (policy and industrialization), and Goheung (launch infrastructure) can be completed as soon as possible.

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