Pohang CCEI (포항 창조경제혁신센터): A Private Centre, Two Cities, and One Odd Dataset Row
포항 창조경제혁신센터
Pohang is one of the two privately operated centres, opened 2015-01-30 with 포스코 as its 전담 대기업, and the only centre whose 지역 covers two cities: 포항 and 광양. Its published 특화분야 reads 전력, 에너지신산업 — which does not match the POSCO pairing, and we report it as published rather than guessing.
Pohang is the centre where reading the source honestly produces an awkward answer, and publishing the awkward answer is the point of doing it this way.
The dataset gives POSCO as partner, private operation, two cities, and a specialisation line about electric power and new energy industries: 전력 ICT, 신재생발전, 전력기자재.
The row we are not going to quietly fix
A power-grid remit reads like the KEPCO centre's, not the steelmaker's. The tempting move is to substitute what Pohang is popularly associated with — batteries, materials, steel — and present that as fact.
That substitution is exactly the error that produced every other wrong claim in this series. So: the field is published as 전력, 에너지신산업, the dataset's 데이터 기준일 is 2026-06-04, and confirming it needs a call to the centre rather than a guess from us.
| Dimension | Value as published by KISED |
|---|---|
| 전담 대기업 | 포스코 (POSCO) |
| 특화분야 | 전력, 에너지신산업(전력 ICT, 신재생발전, 전력기자재 등) |
| 출범일 | 2015-01-30 |
| 지역 | 포항, 광양 (민간) |
| 주소 | 경북 포항시 남구 지공로 80, 포항창조경제혁신센터 (C5) |
What private operation changes
Both private centres carry the same 민간 marking and both were founded around a single company's industrial base. They still appear in the portal's directory and still run calls.
What changes is that KISED's own national overview counts 17 while the portal lists 19, and neither number is wrong — they are counting different things.
Frequently asked questions
- Why is Pohang described as private?
- KISED's dataset marks two rows 민간 in both the institution name and the region: 포항 and 빛가람. That marking is the entire difference between the 17 figure KISED's overview cites and the 19 the portal lists.
- Which cities does it cover?
- 포항 and 광양, printed together in the 지역 column. It is the only centre in the network whose region names two cities.
- What are its published specialisations?
- The dataset prints 전력, 에너지신산업 (전력 ICT, 신재생발전, 전력기자재 등) — power and new energy industries.
- Does that match POSCO?
- Not obviously, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The field reads like a power-utility remit while the partner is a steelmaker. Either the row carries an error or the remit differs from expectation; the honest move is to quote it and check with the centre.
- Where is it?
- 경북 포항시 남구 지공로 80, 포항창조경제혁신센터 (C5).
- When did it open?
- 2015-01-30, the fourth centre in the network and the earlier of the two private ones by two years.
Sources
- 창업진흥원_창조경제혁신센터 데이터 현황_20260604 — KISED's centre dataset: 전담 대기업, 출범일, 지역, 주소 and 특화분야 for all 19 centres — read 2026-09-01
- CCEI unified portal — centre directory and notices — read 2026-09-01
- KISED, 창업 인프라 — states 전국 19개 창조경제혁신센터 and the centre contact directory — read 2026-09-01
Everything above is the rule as published. See how it applies to your case.