'2021 Machine Day Commemorative Academic Forum' Held
Four Selected as Machine Persons of the Year Including Kim Jaehak, CEO of Haizen Motor
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] The Korea Machine Industry Promotion Association (Chairman Son Dong-yeon) announced that it held the '2021 Machine Day Commemorative Academic Forum' on the 14th. This forum was organized to discover new business opportunities for the domestic machine industry and seek sustainable growth plans in response to the rapidly changing management environment, such as ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and carbon neutrality, as a global supply chain restructuring is expected.
Park Jin-gyu, the 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, said in his congratulatory speech, "Our machine industry is expected to achieve exports of 50 billion dollars, maintaining the level of previous years despite the COVID-19 situation," and urged, "All machine industry stakeholders should discuss and participate together to effectively respond to global supply chain restructuring, carbon neutrality, and digital transformation issues."
The event, held simultaneously online and offline, featured keynote speeches on ESG and carbon neutrality, explanations of government policies, and presentations of corporate cases. Following the keynote speech by Woo Tae-hee, Vice Chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Son Dong-yeon, CEO of Hyundai Doosan Infracore and Chairman of the Korea Machine Industry Promotion Association, introduced his company's ESG information and climate change response cases.
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Prior to the forum, awards were presented to distinguished contributors from industry, academia, and research, as well as the Machine Person of the Year awards. Ten people, including Park Dong-cheol, a research fellow at Hyundai Motor Company, received the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award, and four people, including Kim Jae-hak, CEO of HiZen Motor, were selected as the Machine Persons of the Year.
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