Mayor Kim Dong-geun: "Integrating Urban Development and Corporate Attraction... Advancing as a Future Industrial City"

Uijeongbu Holds First Corporate Attraction Strategy Meeting
Pursuing Strategies Linking Returned Military Sites, AI Cluster, and Free Economic Zone
Mayor Kim: "Beyond Plans to Results... Accelerating the Development of Future Growth Hubs"

Uijeongbu City in Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Kim Dong-geun) announced on August 1 that it held its first corporate attraction strategy meeting under a new system integrating urban development and economic job functions, marking the fourth year of the 8th popularly elected administration on July 30.

Mayor Donggeun Kim held the "20th Corporate Attraction Strategy Meeting" on the 30th. Photo by Uijeongbu City

This meeting, as an extension of the total 19 corporate attraction strategy meetings held so far, was an opportunity to share the city’s direction to focus on execution and results over the next year, building on the foundations established over the past three years.

So far, the city has concentrated on laying the groundwork for a future industrial city by ▲ reorganizing systems and establishing development plans for the utilization of returned military sites ▲ relocating the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) Northern Gyeonggi Headquarters ▲ signing investment agreements with bio companies ▲ being selected as a candidate site for the Gyeonggi Free Economic Zone ▲ and being designated as the Gyeonggi AI Innovation Cluster.

In July, the city merged the urban development (urban development and returned land development) and corporate/job (corporate investment attraction and job economy) departments through organizational restructuring. This established a system that organically links development plans and corporate attraction strategies, shifting from plan-centered administration to execution-centered administration.

During this strategy meeting, participants focused on discussing strategies to overcome the city’s growth limits, seizing the government’s policy of “progressive review of the utilization of returned military sites in Northern Gyeonggi” as an opportunity.

Uijeongbu City plans to develop ▲ Camp Jackson as a “Digital Healthcare Complex Hub” ▲ Camp Kyle as a “Bio Cluster” ▲ Camp Red Cloud (CRC) as a “Media Content and AI Industry Base” ▲ and Camp Stanley as an “IT Cluster.”

In particular, Camp Kyle and Camp Red Cloud have been selected as candidate sites for the Gyeonggi Free Economic Zone, with the goal of official designation by 2027. The city plans to conduct feasibility studies and establish development plans for these sites. Through this, the city aims to lay the foundation for attracting global companies and accelerate the creation of new growth clusters in connection with foreign-invested companies.

Meanwhile, the development of the “Uijeongbu Station Area,” located in the city center, is also set to begin in earnest.

The city plans to designate the station area as an urban innovation zone, expand functions related to start-ups, commercial districts, and daily life SOC in connection with a multi-modal transfer center, and foster it as a hub that injects jobs and vitality into the city center.

Additionally, the city plans to proactively respond to the Defense Venture Center public offering project, attract a Defense Venture Center to Uijeongbu City through this year’s Gyeonggi Province competition, and use it as a base to build a defense industry ecosystem and secure a defense industry innovation hub.

Furthermore, the city plans to operate a flea market to boost local vitality by supporting youth entrepreneurship and expanding sales channels for small business owners, with the first pilot operation scheduled for September 5 at Hoeryongcheon.

Mayor Kim Dong-geun stated, “It is now time to deliver results, not just plans, to our citizens. By integrating urban development and corporate/job functions, we will accelerate key projects such as the development of returned military sites, the AI Innovation Cluster, and the creation of a Free Economic Zone, establishing Uijeongbu as a definitive growth hub in Northern Gyeonggi.”