Introducing smart agriculture and attracting high-tech industries, Goesan-gun 'Agricultural Byeongjin' strategy in South Korea

Goesan-gun, a province in North Chungcheong, South Korea, is strategically shifting its industrial focus towards smart agriculture and attracting high-tech industries. Leveraging its fertile land and clean environment to produce high-quality agricultural products, particularly tobacco and pepper, the province is also promoting the organic industry and planning to reopen the World Organic Expo next year. With significant investment in smart agriculture, including a smart bean production complex and an open-air smart agriculture support center, Goesan-gun aims to ensure sustainable cultivation and optimize crop growth through AI big data analysis. Despite its strengths in agriculture, the province understands the limitations and is diversifying its economy by attracting high-tech companies, having secured major investments and being included in the K-semiconductor belt strategy. The plan to build a megapolis industrial complex further supports this ambition, despite concerns about a waste landfill.