President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged to accelerate establishment of a transportation network in the southwestern South Jeolla region in a bid to expand provincial residents' boundary of day-to-day life and to create a regional economic zone.

At the 20th session of an ongoing public debate on Thursday, Yoon announced plans to inject two-point-six trillion won, or around two billion U.S. dollars, to build a 47-kilometer-long superhighway connecting Yeongam and Gwangju that resembles Germany's Autobahn.

The president also revealed plans to pick up pace on the construction of the Gwangju-Gangjin and Gangjin-Wando highways, and to spend over one trillion won to improve transportation on a 180-kilometer section between North Jeolla's Iksan and South Jeolla's Yeosu with a high speed rail network.

Referring to the launch of a space industry cluster the previous day, which includes South Jeolla's Goheung, Yoon pledged to set up a private vehicle launch site and assembly building inside the Goheung complex and to fast-track the development of an industrial complex.

The president also vowed to provide investment of one-point-three trillion won in the region's tourism industry, creating an animation cluster in the city of Suncheon.