Songdo Convensia will be transformed into a huge showroom that tests domestic companies' entry into

사진 확대 Officials are preparing for the opening at Songdo Convensia in Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, on the 27th, a day before the 24th World Korean Congress and the opening of World Korean Week. Han Joo-hyung, a journalist

Songdo Convensia will be transformed into a huge showroom that tests domestic companies' entry into the global market for three days. Various events will be held ranging from product exhibitions covering food, beauty, household appliances, and innovative technologies to one-on-one export consultations, attracting investment in artificial intelligence (AI) startups, and networking of next-generation Korean industries. The 24th World Korean Congress, which will be held in Songdo Convensia, Incheon, will be held from the 28th to the 30th with 3,000 domestic and foreign businessmen participating. The World Korean Congress is a business event in which Korean businessmen and Korean businessmen from all over the world gather to find new business opportunities and expand economic cooperation with their home countries.

The Overseas Koreans' Office will take this opportunity to hold the World Korean Week and the 20th World Korean Day celebration. In addition, the opening ceremony of the World Korean Week Integration and the Korean Festival will be held. At the 2026 Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry Night, a characteristic of the eve of the event, a celebratory performance will be held with hundreds of VIPs, including the steering committee of the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the CEO of Reading.

The center of this event is a corporate exhibition hall that showcases the products and technologies of domestic companies to overseas buyers. More than 330 companies will set up 400 exhibition booths and introduce various products and services such as K-food and K-beauty, household appliances, consumer goods, and innovative technologies. In addition to displaying products, one-on-one business consultations aimed at actual transactions will also be held. More than 270 buyers from around the world sit face to face with Korean companies to explore the possibility of export, local distribution, and business partnership.

Start-ups with popping ideas will also have opportunities to meet foreign investors. At the 'Global AI Startup & VC Forum' to be held on the 29th, promising domestic startups will announce their technology and business models to global venture capital (VC). A program will also be held on the same day to share the strategies of startups' overseas expansion and find the possibility of cooperation between investors and start-ups.

There will also be a meeting of Korean businessmen, including generations and careers. The Young Business Leader Network, which includes the next generation of Korean businessmen, and Leading CEO, a group of mid-sized Korean businessmen who have established a business foundation abroad, will hold a general meeting, respectively. Young businessmen get local experience and market information of senior Han Sang, and the existing Han Sang is a place for exchange where they meet new ideas and business partners.

The Young Business Leader Networking Forum will also discuss next-generation Korean-Japanese luncheon, youth forums, and related policy implementation plans. In particular, Lee Jang-seop, a global diaspora research professor at Chonnam National University, gave a keynote speech on "Transformation of the digital platform of the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry Network Using AI Big Data," Chic Shin Hak-soo, a company that optimizes code chain loading, announced "Successful Cases for Optimizing Cold Chain Using AI," and Lee Sang-wook, a philosophy professor at Hanyang University, said, "Great leadership in the AI Era is." Lectures will also be held.

There will also be a place to seek the role of the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry Network amid changes in the global economy. The World Hansang Forum, organized by Maekyung Media, diagnoses the flow of global industries and finds ways to connect the Korean economic network rooted around the world to new business opportunities.

A commemorative event will also be held on the 29th to look back on the 10 years of scholarship projects conducted by Korean businessmen. Global Hansang Dream is a public interest corporation established by Korean merchants from around the world to foster the next generation of talent, and has supported the studies and careers of youth and young people at home and abroad through Dream Supporters and Han Sang Dream Scholarships. Marking the 10th anniversary of its establishment this year, it changed its name to the "Global Korean Dream Foundation" and expanded its scope of support from the next generation of talent to the total of 7 million overseas Koreans.

On the 30th, the last day, an investment attraction briefing session will be held to announce Incheon's industrial competitiveness and investment opportunities. Incheon City will introduce the local investment environment and corporate support system and find a point of contact with Korean businessmen for investment and business cooperation.

This year, the World Korean Association and the World Korean Generation Congress will also be held in conjunction for the first time.

[Special Report Team = Jung Wook, Director of Industry (Team Leader) / Jung Seung-hwan / Reporter Jin Young-tae / Reporter Ahn Byung-joon / Reporter Lee Jin-han / Reporter Kim Yoo-shin / Reporter Lee So-yeon / Reporter Gong Jun-ho / Reporter Kim Jae-hoon / Reporter Han Joo-hyung]