Pohang is entering a global partnership to expand continued exchanges with Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
A Pohang City delegation, headed by Pohang Mayor Lee Kang-deok and Pohang City Council Chairman Paek In-gyu, met with Rich Fitzgerald, Allegheny County executive, on Jan. 12 and exchanged views on continued exchanges with Pittsburgh.
Allegheny County, an administrative center, is a county, situated in southwest of Pennsylvania, and the biggest city of the county is Pittsburgh.
The Pohang City delegation met with Allegheny County Executive Fitzgerald and Kathy Risko, executive director of Sister Cities Association of Pittsburgh, and they shared the view that they would promote exchanges in diverse areas, such as education, culture, environment and the economy with the goal of striking a sisterhood city agreement.
Allegheny County Executive Fitzgerald said Allegheny County is seeing young people rise sharply on the back of job creation through private and government partnership, building of a good living environment and cheap labor costs, and “I will fully support with great concern over exchanges between Pohang and Pittsburgh.”
Pohang Mayor Lee said, “Pohang has learned of its future of moving toward new growth industries, taking its cue from Pittsburgh City, once a center of the U.S. steel industry, which has established itself as a mecca of advanced industries.”
He expressed hope the two cities would grow together as global economic cities through continued exchanges.
Earlier, the delegates, including Pohang Mayor Lee, met with Scott Morley, director of the Office of Industry & Economic Partnerships and leader of the Industry Partnerships Team at University of Pittsburgh at the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance. They discussed how to nurture Pohang’s bio industry.
Morley said the Pitt Innovation Institute is putting into practice diverse efforts to nurture the bio industry, such as research on new medical technology with 28 alliances comprising of Pittsburgh’s bio engineering officials, commercialization invests, registration of intellectual properties and manpower development.
In response, Mayor Lee introduced Pohang City’s efforts to nurture the bio industry cluster, including a cell membrane research institute and the dedication of a knowledge industry center and attract a research-centric medical college.
He also discussed how to promote the bio industry essential for Pohang City.
The delegation also visited Carnegie Mellon University and discussed ways of regularizing a form between POSTECH TJ Park Institute and Block Center for Technology Society Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon University is famous for robotic and computer engineering studies.
The delegation listened to explanations on the commercialization of new technologies through collaboration among industry and academic circles and exchanged views on models to support industry-academy collaboration, applicable to Pohang City.
Mayor Lee said, “Pittsburgh City is being reborn into a new growth model city of the 21st century through building collaboration governance among several walks of life, including private, government and academia circles, the construction of an advanced technology center and investments and making outstanding achievements in medical and education sectors.”
Pohang will concentrate on transforming the city into an innovative city by applying the success model corresponding to its conditions and bringing about any positive spill-over effects of urban renewal, Mayor Lee added.
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