Seoul's manufacturing support centers help businesses and communities

A tall knitting machine around 3 meters high was producing a sample of socks at the Seoul Socks Manufacturing Support Center in Dobong District, northern Seoul, on Sept. 7.

The machine began knitting a sock after a designer at the center pressed a few buttons and pushed start. In seconds, a completed sock popped out of a tube.

The head ofthe Seoul Socks Manufacturing Support Center in Dobong District, which houses small sock startups, said the machines at the center make 1,000 or so sock samples a year.