Wando-gun Accelerates Preparations for the 2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo!

The 1st Board Meeting of the Expo Organizing Committee Held

Wando County held the 1st board meeting regarding the 2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo. (Photo by Wando County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil] Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do announced on the 28th that it held the 1st Board of Directors meeting of the Expo Organizing Committee at the Wando-gun Office Situation Room on the 22nd to foster the seaweed industry as a national new growth engine industry integrated with advanced technology and to successfully host the 2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo.

At this board meeting, six agenda items were submitted for deliberation and resolution, including the appointment of 3 ex officio directors changed due to term expiration and position succession, 11 appointed directors, and 2 auditors; partial amendments regarding the composition and operation of advisory committees; the 2020 revenue and expenditure budget; the selection of the main bank; plans for ordering the president’s operation and event agency services; and the implementation of basic plans for exhibition hall installation and exhibition production.

The 2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo plans to enhance the level of exhibition content to deliver freshness and vitality to visitors, and to create high added value as an industrial expo by holding an international academic conference to share information and technology of the seaweed industry.

Accordingly, about 40 experts in the seaweed industry, exhibition production, events, tourist attraction, venue operation, seafood certification, and domestic and foreign company attraction have been organized as advisory committee members to receive advice from the planning stage and prepare thoroughly.

Wando-gun laid the foundation for understanding seaweed and developing the seaweed industry by holding seaweed expos twice in 2014 and 2017, and the 2021 expo is being prepared as a business future industrial expo that converges the seaweed industry with the 4th industrial revolution.

The 2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo will be held for 24 days from April 23 to May 16, 2021, at Wando Port Beach Park and Sinji Myeongsasipri Beach under the theme “Healing Sea, the Future of Hope Opened by Badatmal.”

The main exhibition halls will include the Seaweed Understanding Hall in the Theme Hall; Earth Coexistence Hall, Clean Sea Hall, and Future Prosperity Hall on the sea; Human Coexistence Hall, Corporate Exchange Hall, and Specialty Products Hall on land; and Badatmal Experience Center and Water Play Experience Center on the sea.

The 2021 expo expects to attract 640,000 visitors and 150 domestic and foreign companies, generating visitor consumption expenditure of 48.3 billion KRW, production inducement of 106.9 billion KRW, value-added inducement of 44.6 billion KRW, and employment inducement of 1,635 people.

Shin Woo-cheol, Wando-gun Governor and Chairman of the Wando Seaweed Expo Organizing Committee, said, “Since this expo is promoted as an industrial expo, it must be prepared as a groundbreaking expo that shows the vision of new industries to humanity and future generations,” and urged, “We will make every effort to promote the expo so that we can communicate with experts and gather the passion of the residents.”

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