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2019 2030 Busan World Expo Citizen Promotion Committee Regular General Meeting.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The 2030 Busan World Expo Citizen Committee will newly launch as a private organization to lead practical Expo attraction activities.

Busan City announced on the 14th that the Expo Attraction Committee, chaired by Acting Mayor Byeon Seong-wan, will hold a general meeting for corporate conversion at 3 p.m. on the 15th in Room 205 of the BEXCO Convention Hall and newly launch as a corporation.

The newly launched corporate Expo Attraction Committee will see significant participation from key figures in the local economy, reorganize existing participating organizations and groups, and be reborn as a private organization that will lead practical activities for attracting the Expo in the future.

The board of directors will include Acting Mayor Byeon Seong-wan, Park In-young, Chairperson of the Busan City Council and former co-chair, Kim Seok-jun, Superintendent of Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, Heo Yong-do, Chairman of Busan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kim Ji-wan, Chairman of BNK Financial Group, as well as local economic elders such as Kang Byung-jung, Chairman of Nexen Group, Song Kyu-jung, Chairman of Winsteel, and Shin Jeong-taek, Chairman of Sewoon Steel. They will also attend the general meeting in person to support future activities of the attraction committee.

The general meeting will also be attended by Yoo Myung-hee, Director of the Government-wide Expo Attraction Planning Group and Head of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s Trade Negotiation Headquarters, to celebrate the new start of the Citizen Committee. In addition to the board members, more than 80 key figures from various sectors, institutions, and organizations will participate.

The Citizen Committee, which started as a non-corporate voluntary organization in July 2015, has led efforts to build local consensus and create a boom for attraction through campaigns such as a one million signature drive, adoption of government petitions, citizen resolution rallies, public debates, and National Assembly seminars.

With the 2030 Busan World Expo attraction plan confirmed as a national project in May last year, the existing Citizen Committee is being newly reorganized into a private-led corporation accordingly. Through this, the attraction enthusiasm, which had been subdued due to the impact of COVID-19, will be re-gathered under local leadership, and further accelerated to form nationwide consensus and expand the attraction boom.

Along with the establishment of the corporation, the committee will register as a designated donation organization with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to secure stable finances and actively carry out attraction activities, allowing support from corporate members as well as interested individuals.

Acting Mayor Byeon Seong-wan said, “Although it is regrettable that we could not gather many people today due to the impact of COVID-19, the attraction committee, which had been a non-corporate voluntary organization, has reorganized as a private-led corporation to strengthen attraction capabilities. I expect this to be an opportunity to re-gather the wishes of 3.5 million citizens for the Expo attraction and to spread the attraction enthusiasm nationwide.”

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