Opening of Korea's Largest 'Daegu International Textile Fair' ... 40 Fashion Big Brands Including Hyungji and Shinwon Group Participate

The ‘2024 Daegu International Textile Expo (Preview In DAEGU),’ co-hosted by Daegu City and Gyeongbuk Province and organized by the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Textile Industry Association (President Han Sang-woong), opened on the 13th at EXCO with 322 participating companies from home and abroad (203 domestic, 119 overseas), and will hold a vibrant three-day business event.

Since its inception in 2002, the Daegu International Textile Expo, now in its 22nd edition, has been the largest textile material business expo in Korea, significantly contributing to the expansion of exports and activation of domestic transactions in the country’s textile fashion industry.

Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo is touring the site of the Daegu International Textile Expo, which opened on the 13th at EXCO.

This year’s expo, themed ‘Adaptability’ to flexibly respond to the diversified consumer market, actively seeks new business models and strategies for the textile industry to address market environments such as supply chain restructuring and climate change preparedness. The exhibition focuses on ‘advanced convergence material development, establishment of a carbon-neutral and eco-friendly foundation, and digital and smart transformation’ as directions for the future high-tech industry leap.

This year, the expo venue has expanded from the existing EXCO West Hall (15,000㎡) to the East Hall (15,024㎡), and is diversely organized into yarn and fabric material halls, eco-friendly material halls, advanced convergence material halls, digital automation halls, household textile halls, generative AI utilization forum halls, and event halls. Visitors can see differentiated yarns, high-performance eco-friendly apparel fashion materials, industrial materials, household materials, textile machinery, fashion finished products, accessories, and textile designs all in one place.

Exhibitors include 203 domestic companies such as Hyosung TNC and Wonchang Material, as well as 119 companies from nine overseas countries including China, India, Taiwan, and T?rkiye. The expo actively attracts 40 major domestic brands such as Fashion Group Hyungji and Shinwon Group, along with buyers from 15 countries across the Americas, Europe, China, and Vietnam, enhancing the event’s excitement through private matching consultations and export consultation meetings.

Additionally, various seminars such as the ‘Supply Chain Restructuring and Globalization of the Textile Fashion Industry’ conference and ‘Sustainable Textile Certification’ will be held. Concurrently, a ‘Meeting of Fabric and Fashion’ fashion show will be hosted through collaboration between material companies and designers, actively introducing the capabilities of local production materials and fashion designers to domestic and international buyers.

Notably, this year, in collaboration with the global exhibition trade company Messe Frankfurt of Germany, a TechTextil promotional hall has been newly established. In April, a PID promotional hall will be set up at the German industrial textile exhibition, aiming to grow into a key expo for the Asian convergence industrial textile sector in the future.

Mayor Hong Joon-pyo stated, “This event will be the first practical business exhibition for the recovery of the textile industry,” and added, “We hope that leveraging the TK New Airport air route connecting the Americas and Europe and the Dalbit Railroad connecting Yeongnam and Honam will provide an opportunity for the regional textile industry to take another leap forward.”

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