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Busan residents gather in front of Busan Station on Monday to support the city’s bid to host World Expo 2030. The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) will vote to select the host city on Tuesday at its headquarters in Paris. Busan is competing against Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh and Italy’s Rome. Busan Station was also where Busan residents enthusiastically greeted a visiting BIE delegation led by Patrick Specht in April. [YONHAP]

Busan is ready

Busan residents gather in front of Busan Station on Monday to support the city’s bid to host World Expo 2030. Busan Station is where Busan residents enthusiastically greeted a visiting BIE delegation led by Patrick Specht in April.

2023.11.27

Hyundai Motor Executive Chair Euisun Chung gives a toast at a reception dinner held for Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) representatives, diplomats and business heads at a hotel in Paris on Thursday. Chief Chung’s speech, given in English, focused on the attention Busan is receiving as a candidate to host the World Expo 2030, alongside the country’s strengths in science, technology, K-pop and K-food. He emphasized that Korea will keep its promises made to each country regardless of the results of the vote, which will take place Tuesday. The chief then toasted the many new friends that had been made during promotions during the bidding process. [YONHAP]

To Busan!

Hyundai Motor Executive Chair Euisun Chung gave a toast at a reception dinner held for Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) representatives, diplomats and business heads at a hotel in Paris on Thursday.

2023.11.24

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President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, greets Dimitri Kerkentzes, secretary general of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), at the official reception for Busan’s 2030 World Expo bid at the BIE general assembly in Paris on June 21. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

[THINK ENGLISH] 팀 코리아, 부산 월드 엑스포 2030 최종 선택 앞두고 막판 총력전

More than 400 times around the globe. That is the distance Korea's government and business leaders traveled to promote Busan's World Expo 2030 bid.

2023.10.31

President Yoon Suk Yeol attends the opening ceremony of the Great Baekje Festival held in Gongju, South Chungcheong, on Saturday. Few hours earlier he arrived from New York where he attended the UN General Assembly since Monday. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

Yoon visits dad's hometown after return from New York

Yoon Suk Yeol traveled to Gongju on a helicopter that was waiting at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, where Air Force One landed to attend the opening ceremony of the Great Baekje Festival. He had bilateral meetings with nearly 50 countries.

2023.9.24

President Yoon Suk Yeol at a government meeting on artificial intelligence held at the Blue House on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

President Yoon to address North-Russia issue at UN

This marks Yoon's first appearance at the UN since South Korea returned as a two-year nonpermanent member of the UN Security Council. President Yoon will also hold back-to-back bilateral meetings aimed at promoting Busan for World Expo 2030.

2023.9.14

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo attends the opening ceremony of the three-day Caribbean Community (CARICOM) conference, held at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad at the Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday. Han met with 14 heads of government from CARICOM member countries and requested their support for the Busan World Expo 2030 bid. The final votes to decide the event's host city will be cast in November at the Bureau International des Expositions’ headquarters in Paris. Riyadh and Rome are currently competing against the Korean port city. [YONHAP]

Rallying support for Busan expo bid

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo met with 14 heads of government from CARICOM member countries and requested their support for the Busan World Expo 2030 bid.

2023.7.4

President Yoon Suk Yeol delivers a speech to promote Busan's 2030 World Expo bid to host the World Expo 2030 at the 172nd general assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, Tuesday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Transcript: President Yoon Suk Yeol’s Busan World Expo speech

The World Expo Busan will be a solutions platform addressing humanity’s complex and urgent challenges. The 2030 Busan Expo will be remembered as one shifting our priority from competition to solidarity. Busan is ready.

2023.6.21

The opening ceremony of the 2022 Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is held on Oct. 5 at the outdoor theater of Busan Cinema Center in Haeundae District, eastern Busan. [YONHAP]

Korea's 'city of film' has long history and plans for a bright future

From sleek and seductive romances like "Decision to Leave" (2021) to satirical thrillers like "Parasite" (2019), Korean films are making a name for themselves in the cinema world with a robust and bountiful spectrum of movies. Behind the ...

2023.4.5

President of the BIE's Administration and Budget Committee, Patrick Specht, center right, holds up the Korean National Assembly’s resolution that promises the Korean legislative body’s full commitment in supporting the successful hosting of the World Expo 2030 if Busan is picked, with National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo in Yeouido, Seoul, on Monday. [YONHAP]

Lawmakers pass resolution to support expo bid

The 239 lawmakers present at Monday's plenary session of the National Assembly approved a parliamentary resolution to support Busan's bid to host World Expo 2030.

2023.4.3

Park Ji-hong, who heads the team on Gadeok-do International Airport at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, at a press briefing on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Completion of new Busan airport fast-tracked to 2029

The move aims to help Busan win its bid for the World Expo in 2030, with Korea’s largest port in a fierce completion with Riyadh, Rome and Odesa.

2023.3.14