South Gyeongsang Province will travel to three European countries from the 12th to strengthen its competitiveness in key areas such as shipbuilding, energy and welfare.
The South Gyeongsang delegation, led by Governor Park Wan-soo, will visit Poland, Denmark and in turn for seven nights and nine days.
This trip takes on the nature of strategic diplomacy that encomes all areas of the province, including expanding export channels for major industries in the province, cooperation in new industries, benchmarking welfare policies, and establishing a foundation for investment attraction.
The South Gyeongsang delegation will conduct industrial diplomacy to the order for the "Orca Submarine Project," which Hanwha Ocean is participating in, in Poland, the first destination. It will focus on preparing a bridgehead for entry into Europe, such as g a friendly agreement with Pomorskiej and holding a business roundtable between shipbuilding and defense companies.
Denmark will engage in exchanges in new industries for green conversion, such as small molten salt reactors (MSR) and hydrogen energy, and will also establish a new foundation for cooperation with Copenhagen City. It will also benchmark child-rearing and welfare infrastructure sites such as natural playgrounds and seek policies to realize Gyeongnam, which is good for giving birth and raising children.
The last schedule is Paris, , where a briefing session on local investment attraction will be held along with the opening ceremony of the "Paris Office," the first overseas office in Europe in South Gyeongsang Province. At this meeting, agreements and investment MOUs between global environmental companies and industrial equipment manufacturers are also scheduled.
An official from Gyeongsangnam-do said, "We will use this trip as an opportunity to lead a substantial change in Gyeongnam's industrial, welfare, and energy policies and further strengthen the provincial government's global capabilities."
