01. Citizen-Centered Participation
Encourage voluntary participation by citizens, civic organizations, experts, local businesses, and other community stakeholders.
A New Growth Engine for Goyang.
New Opportunities for Employment.
A Global AI Hub for International Cooperation.
New Opportunities for Employment.
A Global AI Hub for International Cooperation.
1. Purpose of the Committee
The Citizens' Promotion Committee for Attracting the Global AI Hub to Goyang Special City is a civic-led initiative established to bring together citizens and community stakeholders in support of Goyang's future development.
The Committee seeks to contribute to the development of new growth opportunities, high-quality employment, regional economic vitality, and Goyang's potential as a city of international cooperation.
Its activities include building public awareness, conducting policy research, developing attraction strategies, encouraging institutional cooperation, and promoting citizen participation.
The Committee believes that the Global AI Hub should be more than a location for international offices.
It should develop into an international cooperation platform that explores responsible applications of artificial intelligence to address shared global challenges.
Through citizen participation,
evidence-based policy proposals,
and constructive cooperation,
the Committee seeks to help prepare
a new future for Goyang Special City.
2. Guiding Principles
The Committee promotes voluntary civic participation, public accountability, transparency, and evidence-based policy development.
02. Evidence-Based Policy
Analyze Goyang's location advantages using objective information and policy research, and develop practical proposals for the Global AI Hub initiative.
03. Broad Institutional Cooperation
Explore opportunities for cooperation with Goyang Special City, Gyeonggi Province, relevant national authorities, universities, research institutions, businesses, and civil society.
04. Transparency and Accountability
Promote responsible operations, public communication, and transparency in the Committee's activities and major developments.
3. Major Activities
Public Awareness and Engagement
Encourage public understanding of the Global AI Hub initiative through online expressions of support, outreach activities, and communication with citizens.
Policy Research and Proposals
Assess Goyang's urban assets and potential international cooperation requirements to develop competitive attraction strategies and policy recommendations.
Expanding Cooperation
Explore opportunities for cooperation with public institutions, healthcare organizations, universities, research institutions, and businesses.
Regional Development Opportunities
Examine ways to connect the proposed Global AI Hub with research and development, industrial activity, youth employment, and sustainable regional growth.
These activities describe the Committee's objectives and proposed directions. They do not imply confirmed relocation decisions, formal institutional partnerships, or approved projects.
4. Message from the Chairperson
Dear Citizens of Goyang Special City,
We stand at an important moment that could shape the future of Goyang Special City.
Over the past several decades, Goyang has developed into a major residential city in the Seoul metropolitan region. However, the city has not yet secured sufficient high-quality employment opportunities and sustainable growth engines to meet the expectations of its citizens.
The proposed Global AI Hub represents an opportunity to address these structural challenges and help Goyang develop into an internationally connected city.
Yet the Global AI Hub must not become merely a project to attract the offices of international organizations.
It should contribute to addressing the challenges facing humanity, including disease and hunger, climate change and disasters, refugees and migration, unemployment, and educational inequality, through responsible applications of artificial intelligence.
Goyang Special City possesses a range of assets that could support international cooperation. What matters now is developing concrete, practical, and achievable plans to make effective use of these assets.
Our Citizens' Promotion Committee will go beyond gathering public enthusiasm. We will study policy options, encourage cooperation, and work toward meaningful preparation and tangible results.
Let civil society across Gyeonggi Province work together, and let its citizens unite around a shared vision.
For the future of Goyang Special City, and for a better future for humanity, I invite you to join us.
Thank you.
Hong Young-pyo
Chairperson
Citizens' Promotion Committee
for Attracting the Global AI Hub
to Goyang Special City
Chairperson
Citizens' Promotion Committee
for Attracting the Global AI Hub
to Goyang Special City
5. Organizational Structure
The Committee brings together participants from different areas of civil society to support the proposed Global AI Hub initiative in Goyang Special City.
Select the organizational chart to view a larger image.
The organizational chart is provided in Korean.
6. Major Milestones
September 7, 2026
Inauguration ceremony
of the Citizens' Promotion Committee
for Attracting the Global AI Hub.
October 14, 2026
Public hearing on the evaluation criteria
for selecting the Global AI Hub location.
October 15, 2026
Preparation of recommendations
for improving the Global AI Hub
site-selection evaluation criteria.
October 20, 2026
Participation in the 7th
Goyang Innovation Strategy Seminar.
October 26, 2026
Goyang Special City Council
adopted a resolution
calling for the attraction
of the Global AI Hub.
October 30, 2026
Gyeonggi Province Global AI Hub
Attraction Strategy Forum.
The milestones above reflect the activities and developments listed in the Korean-language Committee introduction.
7. Citizen Participation
The proposed Global AI Hub is a shared civic initiative aimed at expanding Goyang's future growth opportunities and supporting its development as a city of international cooperation.
Citizens are encouraged to participate through online expressions of support, Committee registration, supporting membership, and public awareness activities.
Citizen Participation Center (Korean) English Homepage8. Institutional Status
The Citizens' Promotion Committee is a civic-led organization supporting the proposed Global AI Hub initiative in Goyang Special City.
The Committee is not presented as an international organization or as a government authority responsible for official site-selection decisions.
Any formal institutional participation, location decision, or public support measure would require approval through the procedures of the relevant authorities.
The Committee seeks to contribute
through public engagement,
constructive policy proposals,
and responsible cooperation.