DGFEZ – JETRO Seoul held a seminar for Japanese companies
- Promoting DGFEZ’s business environment to 40 Japanese companies -

On October 17, DGFEZ hosted a Seminar for Japanese companies jointly with JETRO Seoul to promote business environment in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Free Economic Zone. 40 executives from Japanese companies that have already invested in the Yeongnam attended.

During the seminar, DGFEZ the companies learned about key investment benefits including access to automotive parts and materials clusters in the region with high-end technologies supported by skilled labor. These greatly appealed to the Japanese companies, many of whom are considering establishing new or expanding their existing businesses.
In the discussion session, companies talked about doing business in Korea and the bottlenecks with experts from law firms, financial firms, and banking agencies.

After the seminar, all of the executives traveled to the Technopolis district and visited KNT, a Japan-invested multi-tasking machine producer. Whilst there they listened to KNT’s success story of settling into Daegu-Gyeongbuk area.

Sang Woo Suh, Deputy Commissioner of DGFEZ said that “starting from now on, DGFEZ will forge a closer relationship with JETRO Seoul and Japanese entrepreneurs in Korea by holding regular meetings with Japanese companies like this event so that DGFEZ can take a decisive action to attract Japanese companies interested in investing in Daegu-Gyeongbuk.”