What works in Seongnam
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Evidence snapshot for Seongnam
Seongnam hosts Pangyo Techno Valley, South Korea's premier technology cluster located ~25km south of Seoul, which by 2022–24 comprised over 1,600 companies generating combined revenues of KRW 167.7 trillion (approximately US$125 billion) and employing 79,000+ workers, with 36% in R&D roles and 68% aged 30–49. The cluster is dominated by IT and gaming firms (65% of tenants) alongside biotech (14%) and content companies (10%), with roughly 91% being SMEs, and anchored by major firms including NCSoft, Nexon, Kakao, and Naver. By 2023–24, the valley had grown substantially from just 88 companies in 2011, reaching 1,803 companies with KRW 202.4 trillion in combined revenue, though recent analysis suggests growth may be plateauing and the cluster struggles with limited foreign direct investment and international talent attraction.
Drawn from: Pangyo Techno Valley · Pangyo Techno Valley — South Korea's Silicon Valley · Pangyo Techno Valley — Seongnam's State-Planned Tech Cluster · Pangyo Techno Valley: Korea's ICT-Biotech Knowledge Cluster
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of impact / measured results +32 pts 92 here · 60 average
Scalability +26 pts 92 here · 66 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / demonstrated replication -18 pts 42 here · 59 average
Inclusiveness / equity -24 pts 17 here · 41 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Seongnam. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Pangyo Techno Valley · 76
Pangyo Techno Valley — South Korea's Silicon Valley · 71
Pangyo Techno Valley — Seongnam's State-Planned Tech Cluster · 57
Pangyo Techno Valley: Korea's ICT-Biotech Knowledge Cluster · 57
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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