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Major Status
Biocluster expansion
  • LocationIndustry facilities and educational research sites in Districts 4, 5, 7, and 11 of Songdo International City
  • Development Details
    • - Biopharmaceutical, medical, healthcare
    • - Attracting R&D, production, and service companies
    • - Establishment of corresponding infrastructure in related fields (creation of bio clusters)
  • Total areaApproximately 2,000,000㎡
Major Achievements
The world's largest biopharmaceutical production capacity in a single city
  • Songdo (880,000L) > San Francisco> Singapore
Establishing a stable supply base by attracting global companies in biomedicine materials
  • Ajinomoto Genexine (2013), Charles River Korea (2012), Cytiva Korea (2016), Merck (2016, M Lab Collaboration Center / 2017, manufacturing facility), Saint-Gobain (2018), Thermo Fisher Scientific (2021), Satorius (2022)
Acquired the highest number of product licenses in Korean biomedicine
  • R&D and developed the world's first licensed antibody biosimilar (Remsima)
  • 10 out of 25 domestic licensed products developed by tenant companies in Songdo
  • Led exports of domestic medicine (accounting for 46.3% of annual average exports of medicine over the last five years (2017-2021))
On par with European bioclusters
  • Signed an agreement with four bio-clusters to support tenants in the Incheon Free Economic Zone
  • Organizations contracted : Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, Biocat (Spain), BioM (Germany), BioPmed (Italy), Cyonbiopole (France)
※ During the government's 3rd (2017-2025) Basic Plan for Biotechnology Development (announced in September 2017)
Songdo is a production and global cluster to expand the cluster-centered bio-ecosystem
Status of tenancy
분야별 주요 입주기업표 - 분야, 입주기업 제공 표
sectors major tenant companies and institutions
Research/manufacturing
  • Celltrion, Samsung Biologics, Binex, Janssen Vaccine, STGEN BIO, SCM LIFESCIENCE, Samsung Bioepis, Satorius
Process support
  • Ajinomoto Genexine, Macrogen, Cytiva Korea, Merck, Saint-Gobain, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Medical/pharmaceutical devices
  • i-SENS, Olympus, Osstem Implant, Utah-Inha DDS & Advanced Therapeutics Research Center
Research/services
  • Korea Polar Research Institute, Eone Laboratories, Gachon University Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, Macrogen, Knotus, Charles River Korea, Korea Conformity Laboratories
Incubation
  • Start Up Park Incheon, Rehoboth, Yonsei University, BRC
Universities
  • Yonsei University, JEI University, Incheon National University, Gachon University, Ghent University (Global Campus)