Sejong Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (CEO Oh Deuk-chang) and CODIT (CEO Jeong Ji-eun) held the 'Future of Digital Governance: Sejong, Gov-Tech' startup incubation forum at the '2025 Korean Public Administration Association Summer Joint Academic Conference and International Academic Conference' held at Sejong Joint Campus on Wednesday, June 18.
Gov-Tech is a digital public innovation industry that increases the efficiency and transparency of public services based on cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, data, and cloud. It is rapidly growing to a scale of approximately 800 trillion won worldwide, and discussions are in full swing in Korea to establish an institutional foundation for the Gov-Tech industry and expand public-private cooperation models.
This forum viewed Gov-Tech as a core industry for digital-based public service innovation, and focused on the prospects of the global market and the direction of industrial development centered on Sejong City. Sejong City has the optimal environment to demonstrate and develop the Gov-Tech industry based on its structural strengths of central government ministries and national research institutes and its digital administrative infrastructure based on public data.
This forum, co-hosted by the Sejong Center for Creative Economy and Innovation and CODIT, was moderated by Congressman Kim Jong-min (Sejong City Gap) and Sejong City Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs Lee Seung-won, and Vice President Lee Sam-yeol of the Korean Association for Public Administration (Chairman of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence Administration, Professor at Yonsei University). In addition, the Sejong Center for Creative Economy and Innovation and CODIT, which co-hosted the session, presented keynote speeches. Government and private sector experts, including Director Jang Eun-young of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Director Jeong Bu-man of the National Intelligence Service (NIA), Professor Kim Sook-kyung of KAIST, Director Yoon Hee-sik of Microsoft Korea, and Director Cho So-yeon of Sejong Facilities Management Corporation, former Director of the Building Management Headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, participated in the discussion, and had an in-depth discussion on Gov-Tech innovation strategies based on public-private cooperation.
Oh Deuk-chang, head of the Sejong Center for Creative Economy and Innovation, presented Sejong City’s strengths for promoting Gov-Tech and institutional measures for intensively fostering next-generation industries under the theme of “New Challenges of Sejong Smart Administrative City and Gov-Tech Startup Ecosystem.” He presented a plan to create a Gov-Tech startup ecosystem in Sejong City as a Gov-Tech innovation hub in Korea to complete the administrative capital by forming a consensus among public innovation entities.
Jeong Ji-eun, CEO of Codit, gave a presentation on the topic of ‘Digital Government Innovation and the Future of Gov-Tech.’ She introduced the growth trends of the global Gov-Tech market, strategies of major countries, and cases of AI-based policy monitoring, and also presented policy proposals to foster Sejong City as a Gov-Tech demonstration center.
Congressman Kim Jong-min said, “We should create an opportunity for young entrepreneurs to gather in Sejong City by taking advantage of the unique characteristics of Sejong City, which is home to government agencies and research institutes, and attracting startups,” adding, “I hope that this will become a springboard for the Gov-Tech industry in Korea, and that Sejong City will become a hub for digital administrative innovation that reaches out to Asia and the world.”
Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs Lee Seung-won said, “Sejong City, an administrative city, is a place where government agencies and national research institutes are concentrated and administrative demands such as smart city construction continue to arise,” adding, “Sejong City is the optimal location for Gov-Tech startups to freely experiment, so we will work to foster related industries.”
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