Daewoong Pharmaceutical and Gwangju Metropolitan City Sign a Business Agreement to Promote the AI Healthcare Industry...Participation in the project to create a startup complex center in Dong-gu, Gwangju

Sep 16, 2025

Daewoong Pharmaceutical and Gwangju Metropolitan City Sign a Business Agreement to Promote the AI Healthcare Industry...Participation in the project to create a startup complex center in Dong-gu, Gwangju
◇Daewoong Pharmaceutical CEO Lee Chang-jae (center), Gwangju Metropolitan Mayor Kang Ki-jung (left), and Dong-gu Mayor Lim Taek are taking commemorative photos after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create an ecosystem of the artificial intelligence industry at the business room of Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall on the 15th. Photo courtesy of Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd



Daewoong Pharmaceutical has signed a business agreement with Gwangju Metropolitan City and Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City to revitalize the industrial ecosystem where artificial intelligence (AI) and digital healthcare converge.

Major officials, including Gwangju Mayor Kang Ki-jung, Dong-gu District Mayor Lim Taek, and Daewoong Pharmaceutical CEO Lee Chang-jae, attended the agreement ceremony held at Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall on the 15th.

According to this agreement, ▲Gwangju City provides AI infrastructure, is in charge of administrative support for companies, and building an industry-academic cooperation network, and ▲Gwangju-gu supports AI healthcare service demonstration projects. ▲ Daewoong Pharmaceutical plans to lead industrial development through AI healthcare research and development and demonstration, as well as contribute to revitalizing the local economy and promoting civic health in Gwangju.




In addition, Daewoong Pharmaceutical will participate in the project to create an AI healthcare startup complex center promoted by Dong-gu. The center is a complex facility that provides business start-up and demonstration support and resident health examination services, and Daewoong Pharmaceutical plans to set up a demonstration center here so that anyone can experience advanced digital healthcare devices directly. Daewoong Pharmaceutical has a variety of digital healthcare products, including a smart hospital bed monitoring system 'Think', a wearable electrocardiogram device 'Mobicare', and a ring continuous blood pressure gauge 'CartBee Pro'.

Through this agreement, Daewoong Pharmaceutical plans to speed up the creation of new digital healthcare businesses that link AI and startup ecosystems to smart hospitals and precision medical models based on health data accumulated at the ▲ Center. ▲ Providing integrated prevention, diagnosis, and management services that Gwangju citizens can feel.

Lee Chang-jae, CEO of Daewoong Pharmaceutical, said "Gwangju's infrastructure and empirical environment are the best conditions for corporate innovation" Through this agreement, we will promote the development of local industries and the promotion of citizens' health by combining them with Gwangju's excellent AI infrastructure, and further contribute to strengthening national competitiveness."




Reporter Kim So-hyung compact@sportschosun.com



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.