GWANGJU < invest Korea

❑ Location: Sochon and Unsu-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju

❑ Area and infrastructure

❑ Resident status

(Unit: Companies, persons)

❑ Production capacity: KRW 70.5 billion (Production)

❑ Location information
❍ Location
∙Expressway: Exit Dongrim IC, Honam Expressway
         [314.5km from Seoul (286.8km via Cheonan Nonsan Expressway), 346.6km from Busan]
∙By train: Use Songjeong Station (Honam line)
     [344.1km from Seoul, 329.8km from Busan, 66.8km from Mokpo]
∙By airplane: Use Gwangju Airport (from Seoul, Jeju and international line), 40 minutes away from Muan International Airport
∙By ship: 80 minutes from Gwangyang Port, 80 minutes from Mokpo Port, 120 minutes from Yeosu Port and Gunsan Port
❍ Industrial waste
∙Waste treatment: 100% outsourcing

❑  Eligible business categories
❍ Under the Korea Standard Industrial Classification categories specified by the commissioner of Statistics Korea(KOSTAT), manufacturing industry which includes electronics, machinery, chemical, food and beverages.
❍ Business or industry prescribed by Presidential Decree under the provisions of Article 2 (11) and (12) of Industrial Cluster Development and Factory Establishment Act (hereinafter referred to as “industrial cluster act”).
❍ Warehousing and storage
∙ General warehousing (52101), refrigerated and frozen warehousing (52102), and other warehousing and storage (52109)
❍ Transport
∙ General freight trucking by heavy truck (49311), freight trucking by light or small truck & freight trucking by medium truck (49312), and courier activities (49401)
❍ The extent of gross area allocated to logistics businesses shall represent less than 9 percent of the total size of the industrial lands inside any given industrial complex herein. In such cases, the aforementioned area left for logistics industry shall not exceed the total sum of the gross area.

❑ Restricted business categories
❍ Slaughtering of livestock (10110)
❍ Manufacture of furs and leathers (1511)
❍ Manufacture of coke, briquettes and refined petroleum products (19)
❍ Manufacture of coal and other basic organic chemicals (20119)
❍ Manufacture of other basic inorganic chemicals (20129)
❍ Manufacture of dyes, synthetic inorganic pigments, tanning materials and other coloring agents (20132)
❍ Manufacture of fertilizers and nitrogen compounds (202)
❍ Manufacture of plastics and synthetic rubber (203)
❍ Manufacture of rubber products (221)
❍ Manufacture of structural non-refractory clay and ceramic products (2323)
❍ Manufacture of cement, lime, plaster and its products (233)
❍ Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products (239)
❍ Manufacture of smelting, refining and alloys of other non-ferrous metals (24219)
❍ In following cases deemed necessary for banning entry, businesses in certain industrial categories may not be allowed to move in; 

where the enterprise poses environmental risks discharging waste water or pollutant
where the enterprise has other issues to be restricted

❑ Supervisory bodies and managing authorities (organizations)
❍ Director: Mayor of Gwangju city(Investment Promotion Division, Employment & Economy Bureau)
∙Address: (Postal code: 61945) 111 Naebang-ro (Chipyeong-dong), Seo-gu, Gwangju city
∙Telephone: 062)613-3682 FAX : 062)613-3869
❍ Management: Head of Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju City(Enterprise Economy Division, Economics and Culture Bureau)
∙Address: (Postal code: 506-702) 15 Gwangsan-ro 29beon-gil (Songjeong-dong), Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju city
∙Telephone: 062)960-3877 FAX : 062)960-8419
❍ Council: Sochon Industrial Complex Management Council
∙Address: (Postal code: 506-110) 632-22 Eodeung-daero (Unsu-dong), Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju city
∙Telephone: 062)942-1722 FAX : 062)943-1722