What works in Seongnam
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Evidence snapshot for Seongnam
Seongnam hosts Pangyo Techno Valley, a state-planned technology cluster that has grown substantially since its 2011 launch, reaching 1,803 companies and 78,872 employees with combined revenue of KRW 202.4 trillion by 2023–24. The cluster is dominated by IT and gaming firms (65% of tenants), biotech companies (14%), and content firms (10%), with approximately 91% small and medium enterprises alongside major anchors like Naver, Kakao, Nexon, and Samsung. The valley generates roughly 22% of Gyeonggi Province's GDP, though recent analysis notes Pangyo struggles to attract significant foreign investment or international talent at scale, with revenue concentrated in a handful of large domestic companies.
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 +34 pts 92 here · 57 average
Scalability +30 pts 92 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / demonstrated replication -18 pts 42 here · 60 average
Inclusiveness / equity -26 pts 17 here · 43 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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