Chairman Lee Eog-weon of the Financial Services Commission traveled to Busan and held a meeting with local high-tech enterprises and venture investment companies on July 3. At the meeting, Chairman Lee discussed the need to further expand the supply of financial investment in regional economies to help promote innovation and cultivate promising startups in the high-tech sectors. In this regard, Chairman Lee said that along with the initial plan to supply at least 40 percent of the total investment amount from the National Growth Fund to regional economies, authorities will launch a new regional league program within the National Growth Fund, which will provide KRW200 billion a year in investment support for regional enterprises over the next five years.