Chungcheongbuk-do

Chungbuk creates social atmosphere of respecting businesspeople

• Campaigns for encouraging businesspeople

  Organization of encouragement day for businesspeople, meetings with businesspeople, awards for small and medium businesses

• 24 tasks to generate a culture of respect for businesspeople

  Build a businessperson hall of fame, allow businesspeople to use the VIP room at Cheongju International Airport, allow businesspeople free access to public places

• Province-wide campaign for respecting business: to generate business-friendly atmosphere within society

Chungbuk creates the country’s best environment for investment

• Develop customer-tailored industrial sites: 69 sites/44,994 thousand ㎢ area

  Specialized complex by region (south, north and central regions) Develop industrial clusters

• Expand the level of incentives for investing companies

  Companies moving from the metropolitan area: up to 10 billion Korean won
  Companies moving from other areas and constructing a factory in Chungbuk: up to 5 billion Korean won
  Aid for employment and training expenses for foreign investing companies: up to 1 billion Korean won
  Investment promotion funding: 10 billion Korean won through 2009

• Remove all hindrances against investment (laws, regulations, guidelines)

Chungbuk offers active support for small and medium businesses and venture businesses

• Customer oriented one-stop service

  Problem-solving center for companies and ‘e- business-friendly center’, an on-line solutions system, for complaints

• One-stop support for small and medium businesses to set up a company and construct factorie
• On-time financing aid with low interest rate

  Nurture of funding and credit guarantees for small and medium businesses Bio funding (11 billion Korean won)

• Nomination of first-rate venture business companies and aid with preferential interest rate, marketing and PR

Chungbuk creates a peace zone for labor and management to promote co-existence

• Operation of the Chungbuk Labor and Management Forum participated in by both sides

  Establish partnership relations through various programs such as concerts and workshops

• Organize proclamation ceremony of a peace zone for labor and management
  • Establishment of a cooperative network between labor and management (2007~2008)
  • Encouragement of peace agreements between labor and management by company and region (2008~2009)
  • Chungcheongbuk-do proclamation ceremony of a peace zone for labor and management ( May 2009)
• Financial incentive to companies with harmonious coexistence between labor and management