Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's Gunsan Free Trade Zone Office

2000

• 2010
  12

  The designation of Iksan Free Trade Zone has been cleared (Notification No. 2010-227 of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy)

• 2005
  10

  Transferred from Iksan and started the business management of the Administrative Agency of GFTZ

  09

  Completed a building construction

• 2003
  12

  Completed a site making and infrastructure construction

• 2002
  12

  Started building construction(Government office building, Business support building, Warehouse and Standardized factory building)

  10

  Completed the Execution Design

  03

  Started making a site and constructing an infrastructure(roads, water supply and drainage)

• 2001
  12

  Concluded a blanket contract with the Public Procurement Service (PPS)

  07

  Completed a site dredging and reclamation work

• 2000
  10

  Designated the Gunsan Free Trade Zone(GFTZ) and held a groundbreaking ceremony

  01

  Proclaimed the Act on the Designation and Management of Free Trade Zone

1990

• 1999
  12

  Site validity and economical feasibility has been verified in a study of the Korea Development Institute(KDI)

  08

  Evaluated to be an optimal place for a free trade zone in a research report of the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade(KIET)

  01

  Designation as a free trade zone has been requested by Jeollabuk-do