Signal Korea's new government frames regional innovation as national balanced growth

Summary

The Lee Jae-myung government, launched in June 2025, declared a nation where the people are the true owners as its governing principle. That stance carries into the real-growth philosophy of the State Affairs Planning Committee, which inherited the president's campaign vision. The expression chosen for regional innovation under this agenda is national balanced growth. The author finds it notable that balance and growth are written together within a single term. Long-running debates have asked which of the two matters more, or how two conceptually conflicting values can be achieved together. The author likens balanced growth to a Möbius strip on which such questions keep returning depending on one's position, and places regional science and technology on the same strip.