Task force to hold three intensive strategy sessions from Monday through Sunday
The broad outlines of a hydrogen-specialized industrial complex planned for Donghae and Samcheok in Gangwon Province are expected to take shape by late this month.
The complex is being developed to intensively foster the hydrogen industry as a future growth engine for the region. The project targets completion by 2028, with a site in Samcheok's Geundeok-myeon Dongmak-ri spanning 140,000 square meters.
After three rounds of subcommittee meetings — scheduled for Monday, Thursday and Sunday — the Gangwon Hydrogen-Specialized Complex Task Force is expected to finalize detailed strategies covering competitiveness enhancement, corporate incentives and recruitment, and workforce development for the Donghae-Samcheok hydrogen complex.
The task force subcommittee comprises 22 hydrogen industry experts from academia and the private sector, supporting the complex's development through three working groups: general infrastructure, research and development, and corporate innovation and workforce training.
The series of meetings, convened by Gangwon Province, will proceed in order — the research and development subcommittee on Monday, the general and infrastructure subcommittee on Thursday, and the corporate innovation and workforce training subcommittee on Sunday.
The sessions will cover the progress of incentive development for companies moving into the complex and updates on corporate recruitment efforts, while also exploring ways to improve move-in conditions based on companies' key concerns and difficulties.
In addition, participants will refine an integrated project plan for follow-up research and development initiatives identified at a previous R&D subcommittee meeting, and will flesh out detailed plans for advancing the project, including proposals to central government ministries.
The task force also plans to draw on corporate survey results to develop tailored support measures that address move-in difficulties and to design demand-driven workforce training programs.
Gangwon Province will use feedback from the subcommittee meetings to map out follow-up actions across corporate recruitment, research and development, business support and workforce training. It will also step up efforts to ensure the complex's development translates into actual move-ins and industrial activity.
"To strengthen the competitiveness of the hydrogen-specialized complex, infrastructure development must be organically linked with corporate recruitment, research and development, and workforce training," said Park Yu-sik, director general of the Future Industries Bureau. "Through these subcommittee meetings, we will actively work to establish the Gangwon hydrogen-specialized complex as a key hub for South Korea's hydrogen storage and transportation industry."
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