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The Ministry of SMEs and Startups held a regulatory free zone meeting at Osong Advanced Medical Industry Promotion Foundation to promote innovation in new industries and cooperation between regions. Regulatory free zones have contributed to the revitalization of the local economy by temporarily easing regulations in non-metropolitan areas to support the verification and commercialization of new technologies and services, thereby helping SMEs enter domestic and international markets.
Industry has consistently raised the need for rapid regulatory reform and increased cooperation between related zones and companies to spread the success of regulatory free zones. The meeting was attended by local governments, SMEs, industry experts, who discussed field difficulties and the development direction of the regulatory free zone system. The ‘cross-regional linkage zone promotion plan’, scheduled to be fully implemented next year, was also shared.
The ‘cross-regional linkage zone’ is a model where multiple local governments cooperate to demonstrate a new type of fusion industry by relaxing regulations across supply chains and industries. SMEs emphasized the importance of establishing a package support system that links R&D, infrastructure, and data utilization to successfully demonstrate in the zone, and requested follow-up support measures such as liquidity supply and market acquisition for stable commercialization of products and services.
Local governments expressed their strong willingness to actively participate, stating that the cross-regional linkage zone will significantly expand the mutual growth effect between regions by overcoming the limitations of a single region’s infrastructure and resources. Vice Minister No Yong-seok emphasized the need for regional cooperation and linkage to achieve greater results and promised regulatory reform outcomes that companies can experience.