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Chungju Designated as “Best City for Business” for 2 Consecutive Years
Date
2014.04.02
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(CHUNGJU = Newsis) The city of Chungju in the North Chungcheong Province was designated as the best city for business for two consecutive years.

The designation was announced by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy and Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

Chungju received high scores for its foreign investment promotion activities, one-stop administrative services and more.

Chungju also boasted its outstanding business conditions such as affordable land prices, easy access to the Seoul metropolitan area, abundant industrial water and excellent labor-management relationship over the last nine years.

The city plans to complete the construction of the Chungju Megapolis and Chungju 5th Industrial Complex by 2016, and improved its business conditions by expanding its infrastructure and designating the Chungju Ecopolis.

The city attracted a total of 97 businesses from the last year, and the businesses promised to invest a total of KRW 500 billion.

“The city will be able to attract more top companies thanks to the designation,” said a city official. “It will help us build a self-sustaining city with the population of 300,000.”

fuccomo@newsis.com

Source Text

Source: Newsis (Mar. 28, 2014)

** This article was translated from the Korean.