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Gwangju Free Economic Zone Authority participates in ‘World IT Show 2024’

- Gwangju Gyeongja District Promotion Center was operated at COEX in Seoul from the 17th to the 19th.
- Intensive promotion of innovative investment environment in artificial intelligence convergence field

Gwangju Free Economic Zone Authority will participate in ‘World IT Show 2024’, Korea’s largest information and communication technology (ICT) exhibition, held at COEX in Seoul from the 17th to the 19th.

‘World IT Show 2024’, which celebrates its 11th anniversary this year, is Korea’s largest information and communication technology exhibition where you can see the latest trends and innovative technologies in the domestic and overseas information and communication technology industry at a glance.

This exhibition is hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and approximately 300 companies, including LG CNS, Kakao, and Eastsoft, will participate and approximately 45,000 visitors are expected to visit.

The Gwangju Economic Development Administration plans to set up a promotional center for the Gwangju Free Economic Zone to promote Gwangju's investment environment to domestic and foreign companies and to attract companies related to artificial intelligence (AI) convergence.

In particular, it will focus on promoting Gwangju, which will leap forward as Korea's best artificial intelligence cluster by focusing on manpower training, industrial infrastructure, and technological innovation companies centered on the artificial intelligence (AI) convergence district. In addition, it provides information such as investment conditions and special benefits through one-on-one customized consultation for artificial intelligence (AI) convergence companies.

Seok-gi Seon, head of the Gwangju Free Economic Zone Authority, said, “We will announce that Gwangju is an artificial intelligence (AI)-intensive city with computing resources, customized start-up space for companies, demonstration equipment, and artificial intelligence (AI) funds, and carry out activities to attract artificial intelligence-based convergence companies. “We will actively promote it,” he said. <End>

(Gwangju Free Economic Zone Authority, +82-62-613-6051)