HYESUNG Newsletter Vol. 25-28.

Seoulโ€™s FDI Outlook and Strategic Industries



๐Ÿ” Global FDI Trends and Seoulโ€™s Changing Investment Landscape

In 2022, global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) declined by 12% year-on-year to USD 1.3 trillion. Key factors included the Russiaโ€“Ukraine war, global economic slowdown, and growing debt burdens. While FDI inflows to advanced economies plunged by 37%, emerging markets reached record-high levels due to favorable policy shifts and targeted incentives.  Seoul experienced a sharp 40% drop in FDI inflows in 2022 to USD 10.8 billion. However, by the first half of 2023, the city began to show signs of recovery, driven by large-scale private equity inflows and increased investment in select manufacturing sectors. Notably, over 90% of Seoulโ€™s FDI is concentrated in service industries, with strong performance in finance, insurance, fintech, and content-related sectors.


๐ŸŒ How Global Cities Attract FDI: A Comparative Perspective

Leading global cities have adopted tailored investment attraction strategies that leverage their unique industrial strengths and geographic advantages:


  • London & Berlin: Focus on global talent, robust regulatory frameworks, and linkage to mature markets

  • Hong Kong: Leverages its open trade and finance systems to connect East and West

  • Singapore: A financial and logistics hub optimized for capital markets and emerging digital industries

  • Major Chinese Cities: Promote high-tech industrial clusters through special zones and infrastructure investment

  • Tokyo: Offers a stable, mature market with well-developed infrastructure and institutions


Across all cities, a common theme emerges: FDI strategies are deeply integrated with national and municipal industrial policies. Investment promotion efforts increasingly emphasize R&D investment and the attraction of global innovation talent.


๐Ÿ™๏ธ Seoulโ€™s Eight Strategic Industries

To enhance its competitiveness as a global investment destination, Seoul is actively fostering the following eight strategic industries:


  • AI (Artificial Intelligence): Yangjae AI cluster, government-backed research and incentives
  • Robotics: R&D hubs in Suseo, technology-intensive manufacturing and service convergence
  • Bio & Healthcare: Hongneung Bio Cluster, home to over 35% of Koreaโ€™s bio companies
  • Fintech & Blockchain: Clustered in Yeouido and Mapo, aligned with global financial hub initiatives
  • Smart Mobility: Autonomous vehicles, urban air mobility (UAM), part of Seoulโ€™s smart city strategy
  • Content: Webtoons, animation, metaverseโ€”export-driven digital content industry
  • Beauty & Fashion: K-beauty and fashion convergence with design and tourism
  • ICT: Expansion of big data, IoT, AR/VR infrastructure within smart city initiatives

Through focused development in these sectors, Seoul aims to strengthen its attractiveness to foreign investors and global startups by expanding R&D, building strategic clusters, and creating a future-ready business environment.


๐Ÿ’ก HYESUNG FDI Platform  ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ

At HYESUNG, we support clients with tailored market entry and investment advisory based on in-depth analysis of Seoulโ€™s evolving industrial landscape and international best practices.   We are committed to helping Seoul rise as a top-tier global destination for investment as a strategic partner of Invest Seoul.


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๐Ÿ” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ FDI ํ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ํˆฌ์žํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณ€ํ™”

2022๋…„ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ง์ ‘ํˆฌ์ž(FDI)๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 12% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ 1์กฐ 3์ฒœ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„-์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ „์Ÿ, ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ๋‘”ํ™”, ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์š”์ธ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ์ง„๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ์˜ FDI ์œ ์ž…์€ 37% ๊ธ‰๊ฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์‹ ํฅ๊ตญ์€ ์šฐํ˜ธ์ ์ธ ์ •์ฑ… ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ FDI๋ฅผ ์œ ์น˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ์„œ์šธ์€ 2022๋…„ FDI ์œ ์ž…์•ก์ด 108์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 40% ๊ธ‰๊ฐํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 2023๋…„ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‚ฌ๋ชจํŽ€๋“œ ์œ ์ž…๊ณผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ œ์กฐ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ํšŒ๋ณต์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์„œ์šธ์˜ FDI ์ค‘ 90% ์ด์ƒ์ด ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์‚ฐ์—…์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธˆ์œต, ๋ณดํ—˜, ํ•€ํ…Œํฌ, ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๋“ฑ ์ง€์‹๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐ŸŒ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋„์‹œ๋“ค์˜ FDI ์ „๋žต ๋น„๊ต

์ฃผ์š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋„์‹œ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ฐ•์ ๊ณผ ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ํŠนํ™”๋œ ํˆฌ์ž์œ ์น˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:


  • ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ยท๋ฒ ๋ฅผ๋ฆฐ: ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ธ์žฌ ์œ ์น˜, ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ, ์„ ์ง„์‹œ์žฅ ์—ฐ๊ณ„

  • ํ™์ฝฉ: ๊ฐœ๋ฐฉํ˜• ๋ฌด์—ญยท๊ธˆ์œต ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋™์„œ์–‘ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ

  • ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด: ์ž๋ณธ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋œ ๊ธˆ์œตยท๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ

  • ์ค‘๊ตญ ์ฃผ์š” ๋„์‹œ: ์‚ฐ์—…๋‹จ์ง€์™€ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ํˆฌ์ž ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํด๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ์กฐ์„ฑ

  • ๋„์ฟ„: ์•ˆ์ •๋œ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์„ฑ์ˆ™ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž ํ™˜๊ฒฝ


์ด๋“ค ๋„์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณตํ†ต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ ๋„์‹œ ์ฐจ์›์˜ ์‚ฐ์—…์ •์ฑ…๊ณผ FDI ์ „๋žต์ด ์ •ํ•ฉ์„ฑ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๊ณ„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, R&D ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฐ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ˜์‹  ์ธ์žฌ ์œ ์น˜์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ™๏ธ ์„œ์šธ์‹œ 8๋Œ€ ์ „๋žต์‚ฐ์—…

์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํˆฌ์ž๋„์‹œ๋กœ ๋„์•ฝํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์•„๋ž˜์˜ 8๋Œ€ ์ „๋žต์‚ฐ์—…์„ ์ง‘์ค‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œก์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


  • AI(์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ): ์–‘์žฌ AI ํด๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ์กฐ์„ฑ, ์ •๋ถ€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ง€์› ํ™•๋Œ€
  • ๋กœ๋ด‡: ์ˆ˜์„œ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ R&D ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์กฐ์„ฑ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ง‘์•ฝํ˜• ์ œ์กฐยท์„œ๋น„์Šค ์œตํ•ฉ
  • ๋ฐ”์ด์˜คยท์˜๋ฃŒ: ํ™๋ฆ‰ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ํด๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ„ฐ, ์ „๊ตญ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๊ธฐ์—…์˜ 35% ์„œ์šธ์— ์ง‘์ค‘
  • ํ•€ํ…Œํฌยท๋ธ”๋ก์ฒด์ธ: ์—ฌ์˜๋„ยท๋งˆํฌ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ํด๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ„ฐ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ธˆ์œตํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ณ„
  • ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ๋ชจ๋นŒ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ: ์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ยท๋„์‹ฌํ•ญ๊ณต๊ตํ†ต(UAM), ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ์‹œํ‹ฐ ์ „๋žต ํ•ต์‹ฌ
  • ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ : ์›นํˆฐ, ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ฒ„์Šค ๋“ฑ ์ˆ˜์ถœ ์ฃผ๋„ํ˜• ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์‚ฐ์—…
  • ๋ทฐํ‹ฐยทํŒจ์…˜: K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ, ํŒจ์…˜์‚ฐ์—…๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ด‘ยท๋””์ž์ธ ์œตํ•ฉํ˜• ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋žต
  • ICT: ๋น…๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ, IoT, AR/VR ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ์‹œํ‹ฐ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ํ™•์žฅ

์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋Š” ์ด 8๋Œ€ ์‚ฐ์—…์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—… ์œ ์น˜, R&D ํ™•๋Œ€, ์ „๋žต์  ํด๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž ๋งค๋ ฅ๋„๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ’ก HYESUNG FDI Flatform  ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ

ํ˜œ์„ฑํšŒ๊ณ„๋ฒ•์ธ์€ ์„œ์šธ ๋ฐ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ ์ •์ฑ… ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ, ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ž… ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์ž๋ฌธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ์„œ์šธ์ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํˆฌ์ž์œ ์น˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์—์„œ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ๋„์‹œ๋กœ ๋„์•ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก, ์ธ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋กœ์„œ ํ˜œ์„ฑ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


  
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