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![The Widen Tower building, where the Sogang-Pangyo Digital Innovation Campus will open in July [SEONGNAM CITY GOVERNMENT]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10943572.jpg?imageId=10943572&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Sogang University President Sim Jong-hyeok, left, and Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin pose for a photo after signing a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday. [SEONGNAM CITY GOVERNMENT]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11767014.jpg?imageId=11767014&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![President Yoon Suk Yeol attends the public debate on digital technology at the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley in Gyeonggi on Tuesday. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10269528.jpg?imageId=10269528&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
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![Hyundai Department Store launched Korea's first Disney Store at its Pangyo branch in Gyeonggi on Tuesday. Visitors can buy over 300 types of Disney merchandise, featuring beloved characters including Mickey Mouse, Disney Princesses, and Toy Story, as well as take pictures at five specially designed photo spots with Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Winnie the Pooh themes. [HYUNDAI DEPARTMENT STORE]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11654882.jpg?imageId=11654882&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A horse-drawn carriage criticizing Kakao Games' Uma Musume Pretty Derby mobile game takes a spin around the Pangyo neighborhood in Gyeonggi, where Kakao Games is located, on Monday. The game, which revolves around personified race horse girls, is developed by Japanese company Cygames and published by Kakao Games. Users have been complaining of the publisher squeezing money from players and operating the game differently from how it is in Japan. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11094481.jpg?imageId=11094481&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Visitors to Pangyo Healing Park in Hyundai Department Store's Pangyo branch in Gyeonggi look at trees on Thursday. To celebrate the month of May, known as 'family month' in Korea, the department store has opened the park on its 10th floor. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11442570.jpg?imageId=11442570&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)