Candidate Lee Donghwan: "I Will Create 300,000 High-Quality Jobs Through AI Valley and Technovalley"

Donghwan Lee Holds Press Conference on Mayoral Bid
Announces Pledge for "300,000 Jobs"
To Establish "Job Innovation Headquarters" Under Mayor's Office
Unveils "100 Billion Won Fund" to Restore Self-Sufficiency
Strongly Criticizes Delay in Economic Free Zone Designation

Donghwan Lee, the People Power Party candidate for mayor of Goyang, announced his key economic pledges, declaring, "I will create 300,000 high-quality jobs without fail."

Candidate Donghwan Lee is holding a press conference at his campaign office in Hwajeong-dong, Goyang-si on the 18th. Photo by Candidate Donghwan Lee

On the 18th, at the campaign office in Hwajeong-dong, Goyang City, Lee held a press conference and stated, "By attracting universities and companies and linking them to job creation, I will fundamentally transform Goyang Special City."

To achieve this, he explained that he would establish a "Job Innovation Headquarters" directly under the mayor's office, introducing a one-stop Hi-Pass administrative system that would oversee everything from corporate attraction to permits and regulatory relief. He also outlined plans to enhance the city's competitiveness in attracting companies by providing bold tax incentives.

In particular, he emphasized his intention to establish the "Goyang Innovation Fund," totaling 100 billion won, which would leverage the city budget as seed funding to draw in private venture capital, and to actively expand investments in innovative companies.

Furthermore, he stated that by revising the ordinance promoting investment attraction, the city would provide support for land acquisition costs and employment subsidies, and that financial resources would be concentrated on core projects with high job creation effects through restructuring the existing budget.

Lee identified the early completion of the economic free zone as a core growth strategy. He announced plans to develop the area around Daegok Station as a Korean-style AI Valley knowledge convergence complex and a logistics and business hub, and to build Ilsan Technovalley as a national cutting-edge strategic industrial complex, with early pre-sale initiatives.

He also added that Goyang Broadcasting and Video Valley would be nurtured as a core K-content company cluster, creating a large number of high-quality jobs favored by young people.

Addressing the controversy over his overseas business trips, Lee countered, "While some distort this as a junket, I personally worked hard in the field with the mindset of being Goyang City's No. 1 salesperson, always taking the position of a subordinate."

Candidate Donghwan Lee holds a press conference at the election office in Hwajeong-dong, Goyang City on the 18th. Photo by Candidate Donghwan Lee

He then addressed the issue of delays in the designation of the economic free zone, criticizing, "Gyeonggi Province and higher-level authorities are approaching this not from a policy perspective, but from a political and administrative one."

Lee went on to say, "I want to ask whether the party responsible for delaying the economic free zone designation is the governor of Gyeonggi Province, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, or the President. The earnest wishes of 1.08 million Goyang citizens must no longer be ignored. Immediate and responsible decisions must be made."

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