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Mayor Ki-jeong Kang: “Please invest in Gwangju, a reliable partner for businesses.”

- Attending the ‘2023 International Investment Attraction Forum’… Emphasis on “We are ready to respond to companies”
- Many global companies such as Siemens, Amazon, Hitachi Energy, and KEPCO participate.
- Promise to “support demonstration cities, talent training, investment environment, and settlement conditions, etc.”

Gwangju Metropolitan City Mayor Kang Ki-jeong said on the 14th, “We will become a partner that firmly supports companies by becoming an empirically-oriented city, completing the artificial intelligence (AI) talent training ladder, creating a global-level investment environment, and improving residential conditions.” Ready to respond to requests. “Please invest while dreaming of the future of the company in Gwangju,” he emphasized.

Mayor Kang attended the opening ceremony of the ‘2023 International Investment Attraction Forum’ held at the Kimdaejung Convention Center on this day and said, “What is important for us now is to accurately understand the changing patterns of the world order and devise survival and development strategies through cooperation.”

Mayor Kang first diagnosed, “The global order led by one country has now become outdated due to the economic crisis, climate crisis, war, and pandemic, and the new order has not yet taken a clear shape.”

Mayor Kang continued, “It is time to find a direction to lead global trends such as medical, bio, future energy and mobility industries.” He added, “The opportunity to meet today for business cooperation with global companies is precious. “More will be needed in the future,” he emphasized.
Mayor Kang once again emphasized that while Gwangju City is promoting artificial intelligence (AI) and future cars as representative future industries, global companies' interest in Gwangju is growing.

Mayor Kang said, “I was convinced that artificial intelligence (AI), Gwangju’s representative industry, and the direction of the future car industry are right while meeting global companies at the ‘CES’ held last January with the Gwangju delegation, including local companies.” “We were able to do it,” he said. “Global companies such as NVIDIA, Amazon, and Bloomberg agree with Gwangju’s direction, and are interested in Gwangju and are with Gwangju.”

Mayor Kang introduced talent training programs in cooperation with global companies and suggested starting multi-faceted cooperation with Gwangju.

Before attending the opening ceremony, Mayor Kang visited Siemens (Germany), Amazon Web Services (AWS, USA), Hitachi Energy Korea, Detroit Electric (UK), Oster Ogene Bio (US), Aspect Biosystems (Canada), and Lyric Robot (China). , Glass Dynamics (USA), Solar Edge Korea, Quanergy Solutions (USA), and AVL Korea, etc., had a friendly chat with participating companies in the International Investment Attraction Forum and explored ways to cooperate with Gwangju.

The ‘2023 International Investment Attraction Forum’, hosted by the Gwangju Free Economic Zone Authority, is a venue for forecasting new directions of global industrial trends and providing business cooperation opportunities for related companies. As global companies' interest in Gwangju increases, the scale has been significantly expanded for the first time this year. It was held under the theme of ‘Sustainable Industry, Creating Tomorrow’s Opportunities’ and a large number of global big tech companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hitachi Energy, Korea Electric Power Corporation, and Hyundai Corporation participated. Three sessions including advanced medicine/bio, future energy, and future mobility, discussions and forums, business cooperation consultations (B2B) between foreign and domestic companies, and participant networking events were actively held. <End>

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