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Georgia Tech, Incheon explore collaboration in manufacturing research, innovation

Published: 14 Jul. 2025, 16:00 Updated: 15 Jul. 2025, 17:51

YOON SEUNG-JIN
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Incheon Metropolitan City's mayor Yoo Jeong-bok discusses bilateral cooperation with officials from the city government and Georgia Institute of Technology at the university's campus in Atlanta on July 11. [INCEHON METROPOLITAN CITY]

The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZ) and the Georgia Institute of Technology are exploring opportunities to advance manufacturing research and innovation.

Incheon Metropolitan City announced on Monday that the city’s mayor, Yoo Jeong-bok, met with Georgia Tech’s president, Ángel Cabrera, on July 11 to discuss shared interests in advanced manufacturing, AI applications and global academic-industry collaboration.

The discussion comes after a memorandum of understanding was signed between the IFEZ and Georgia Tech in June.

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“We hope that the collaboration discussions with Georgia Tech will improve the city’s advanced manufacturing industry and contribute to the development of the nation’s overall research capabilities,” Yoo said.

In line with Incheon’s effort to further bolster its global competitiveness, the city has also started exploring the second phase of the Incheon Global Campus (IGC) initiative, first with a feasibility study and setting mid-to-long-term goals for the project.

Launched in 2009 with the aim of housing satellite campuses of foreign universities, the first phase of the project has established five campuses: SUNY Korea, George Mason Korea, Utah Asia Campus, Ghent University Global Campus and SUNY Korea FIT.

IFEZ said that the existing IGC universities now have a total of 4,519 students, which is 99.8 percent of their admission quotas.

As part of the second phase of the IGC initiative, IFEZ and the Incheon Institute plan to add another five universities to the IGC, aiming for a total of 10,000 students.

One university that may open a satellite campus in Songdo, Incheon, is the University of Southampton, which submitted a letter of intent to IFEZ in May.

Correction, July 15, 2025: A correction was made due to an error by the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority regarding the progress of the Georgia Tech project.

BY YOON SEUNG-JIN [[email protected]]