15 Strategic and Regional Tasks Proposed, Including Administrative Integration and Daejeon Penitentiary Relocation

 

On the 8th, Daejeon City proposed five national balanced growth strategies and ten regional pledge projects at a meeting organized by the Presidential Transition Committee's Special Committee for National Balanced Growth, held with various cities and provinces.

During the meeting, which took place at the Seoul Government Complex, Daejeon's Vice Mayor for Administrative Affairs, Yoo Deuk-won, participated and presented national balanced development strategic tasks, including administrative system reform modeled after the administrative integration of Daejeon and Chungnam, and the establishment of a Daedeok quantum cluster. He also proposed key regional tasks such as the relocation of the Daejeon Penitentiary and the creation of a national advanced bio-medical innovation district.

Vice Mayor Yoo Deuk-won stated, "The tasks proposed this time not only align with the current government's national direction and key pledges but also are strategies tailored to Daejeon's role as a science and technology capital and the leading city of the Chungcheong region." He urged the Presidential Transition Committee to "thoroughly review them."

He further emphasized, "We will continue to do our best to respond to the concretization process of national and regional tasks in the future."