The government will further ease regulations in high-tech industries such as semiconductors, secondary batteries, and bio so that investments can be made quickly. It is a 'field-oriented corporate investment and innovation support plan'. It aims to promote investment worth 4.3 trillion won by extracting regulations such as "thorns under the fingernails." To this end, the secondary battery recycling industry will be allowed to move into the Gumi and Pohang national industrial complexes, and the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster will revise the building permit system so that the plant can be expanded quickly so that 2.5 trillion won worth of investment can be executed early.

The government announced the "field-oriented corporate investment and innovation support plan" at an emergency economic headquarters meeting and economic-related ministers' meeting presided over by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy Koo Yoon-chul on the 13th. Deputy Prime Minister Koo said, "We will also establish an investment-friendly institutional foundation centered on high-tech and new industries."

The core of support in the semiconductor sector is deregulation and tax reduction. The government supports the expansion of factories in Yongin Semiconductor Cluster General Industrial Complex. Since the current building law follows the principle of 'one-to-one permission permission' in order to add buildings that were not originally planned during the construction of the factory, the existing building permit must be changed entirely. In order to solve these difficulties, industrial complexes of a certain size or larger will make exceptions to the principle of "one-to-one permission." The building law is planned to be revised so that additional buildings can be separately approved from existing building permits.

In addition, gift tax is not taxed on empirical support corporations currently operating with contributions from semiconductor companies from 2027 to 2031. A representative example of an empirical support corporation is Trinity Fab. It is a "mini-fab" used by semiconductor small manager companies to verify the mass production performance of their products. The government will establish a special case in the Restriction of Special Taxation Act to support 800 billion won worth of investment and corporate operation.

It has also decided to remove bio-regulation. Cheongju Ochang Science and Industrial Complex will change the use of green areas owned by Cheongju City to industrial land to expand manufacturing facilities for bio companies. The green area rate of the Ochang Science Industrial Complex is around 18%. The government explained, "Even after the use change, it meets the green area rate standard of 10-13%. It supports investment worth 530 billion won.

He also rolled up his sleeves to support K-food. Iksan National Food Cluster in Jeollabuk-do will convert beverage manufacturing sites with a 22.2% sale rate to food and beverage manufacturing sites with a 90.3% sale rate to induce 350 billion won in new investment.

It will also create an ecosystem of new industries. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will revise the Industrial Location Act so that the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport can directly designate an "urban innovation zone" for national industrial complexes that are highly important in national policy. If it is designated as an urban innovation zone, the existing use restrictions will be completely abolished, and high-density and complex developments exceeding the legal floor area ratio upper limit of 1500%, will be possible in theory, maximizing land utilization efficiency.

In order to revitalize regional investment, the upper limit area for designation of non-metropolitan opportunity development zones will be expanded, and the threshold for industry regulation in industrial complexes will be significantly lowered. In particular, if new industries are fostered and RE100 (100% renewable energy) responses are needed, the limit on the designation of "restricted industry planning zones" that allow all industries to move in will be expanded from 30% to 50% of the current industrial land area.

In addition, safety standards are adjusted to suit reality. By specifying safety standards for industrial robots, the old regulatory framework, which was only tailored to fixed robots, will be reorganized to suit new types of robots such as cooperative robots and mobile robots. According to the current Occupational Safety and Health Act, a fence of 1.8m or higher must be installed to prevent worker injuries when driving a robot. However, the government has decided to ease regulations on cooperative robots.

[Reporter Kim Myunghwan]