Gangwon 7+6 Plan

Background of the Plan

Considering the geopolitical and geographical conditions of Gangwon-do, long-term strategies for Gangwon-do would be pointless without discussing the changes in the relationship between the two Koreas and the situations in the East Sea Rim area and Northeast Asia.
Gangwon 7+6 Plan is a full-scale plan to meet the changes in domestic and foreign situations, and promote the balanced development of local peculiarities around seven growth axes (divided by the traffic network and resource potentials) and six life zones.

Strategy of Seven Growth AxesStrategy of Six Life Zones

Secure and agglomerate economies that concentrate the resources into a strategic stronghold to effectively distribute these resources, and specialize in local peculiarities.
Create new opportunity for growth based on local specificity by interaction between the cities and local areas.
Promote functional strongholds that play the role of an artery across Gangwon-do based on the traffic network and local peculiarities. (Serve as a strategic axis that responds to the development of the metropolitan area, the administrative complex city, and the new cities.)

Serving as a main artery in the central inland area, which links the metropolitan area with the west, east, and south axes of the country.
Developing a clean information-based industry on the axis of the Jungang Expressway, connecting the metropolitan area with Chorwon, Chuncheon, Hongcheon, Hoengseong and Wonju.
Building a new city based on business, recreation, and innovation, and attracting the relocation of public institutions into the area to enhance its function as a stronghold.
Developing the central inland area into a center for logistics, history, culture, and new industries, and linking the metropolitan area with the administrative complex city.

Linking the east axis extending to Russia, Japan, and North Korea, with the west axis extending to the metropolitan area, Jeolla-do, North Korea, and China, and cooperating with administrative complex city.
Developing a resort area covering all-season leisure sports, winter sports, industry, academics, and residence around Gangwon-do, including Chorwon, Chuncheon, Hongcheon, Hoengseong and Wonju, on the Yeongdong Expressway - the 3rd east-west axis of the National Intermodal Transportation Network.
Enhancing the logistics functions of the east and west axes, expanding the infrastructure of internationally recognized leisure sports, i.e., the Winter Sports Valley, and building an innovative city that serves as an industrial stronghold.
Integrating the resort with winter sports, constructing a suburban style and pension housing complex, and linking the East Sea Rim axis with the present metropolitan area and the future metropolitan area after the construction of the administrative complex city.

Linking with the administrative complex city and the east axis extending to Russia, North Korea, and Japan.
Developing the resort on the abandoned mines and in the natural environment around the 4th east-west axis of the National Intermodal Transportation Network that links Pyeongtaek, Eumseong, Yeongwol, and Samcheok.
Fostering industry related to resort life including high-tech agriculture, in order to secure a stronghold in southern Gangwon-do.
Promoting the new/renewable energy industry, and preserving/restoring the environment and local life.
Establishing a domestic casino as a part of the promotion plan for the abandoned mining area, and expanding the express traffic network linking Asan, Jecheon, Samcheok, and Donghae in preparation for a new administrative capital to be constructed in Chungcheong-do.

Serving as a gate that links Korea with Russia, North Korea, and Japan along the East Coast.
Developing marine industry and tourism along the 7th north-south axis of the National Intermodal Transportation Network, and promoting a new marine industry integrating marine resources with the high-tech industry.
Expanding the north-south traffic networks including airports and harbors, and enhancing logistics and tourism in the East Sea Rim.
Fully utilizing the Yangyang Int´l Airport, revitalizing the Geumgangsan (Mt.) Tour, developing the Seoraksan-Geumgansan International Free Tourism Zone and the Donghae Free Trade Zone, offering tourists culture and tourism experiences, and promoting the “Making the East Coast Beautiful” project.

A district rich in ecological resources that links the west axis with the east axis in the very middle of unified Korea.
Specializing the functions of the inter-Korean exchange and promoting peace and ecology around the 1st east-west axis of the National Intermodal Transportation Network.
Building an inter-Korean logistic base, and enhancing the symbolic value and local peculiarities to foster the area as a world-class peace and ecology area.
Constructing a tentatively named “Korean Peace Town” that will house a peace/culture plaza, a peace/ecological park, a place for inter-Korean exchange, a DMZ museum, and the construction of a median line for the country. It will also include and promote strategic projects such as the exchange of water resources.

A center for Gangwon-do´s administration effectively linking the metropolitan area with the east axis.
Developing extensive water resources, mountain resources, and clean industry, and enhancing the clean and recreational function for the metropolitan area to attract the relocation of the public institutions that are presently settled in the metropolitan area.
Building a brand city with an environmentally friendly lake around Chuncheon, an adventure and leisure sports city around Inje, and a logistics and exchange stronghold around Yangyang.

Utilizing the ecological potentials of the Baekdudaegan, a so-called geographical barrier to the interconnection between the eastern and western part of the country in Gangwon-do.
Developing the area as a stronghold for nature and ecology tourism.
Activating green tourism, building a new concept where mountain villages integrate agriculture and fishery with tourism, and promoting projects that preserve the environment.

Seven Growth Axes

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