Date from when it can be reported

Morning edition of May 7, Tue., 2019

(online: with its release)

Release data & time

16:00, May 3, Fri., 2019

Staff in charge

Team Manager Kim Mi-ri (063-905-9751) and Researcher Lee Jin-gwang (063-905-9757) of Technology to Business Team of Jeollabuk-do Innopolis

and

Jeollabuk-do Innopolis Beefs up Business Partnership with Hong Kong Trade Development Council

in exploring how to promote the Jeollabuk-do Innopolis companies’ exchange with Hong Kong

□ 연구개발특구진흥재단 전북연구개발특구본부(본부장 서준석, 이하 ‘전북특구본부’)는 5월 3일(금) 홍콩무역발전국(한국지부장 Benjamin Yau)과 전북특구 내 기업의 글로벌 진출 지원 등 홍콩 교류 증진 방안 모색을 위한 비즈니스 미팅을 진행했다. Jeollabuk-do Innopolis (Director See Joon-seok) held a business meeting with Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) on May 3, Fri., for exploring how to promote the research institute spin-off companies‘ exchange with Hong Kong, such as supporting their global operation.

ㅇ HKTDC is a quasi-government agency created in 1966 with the aim of reinvigorating Hong Kong’s trade. The agency promotes companies and products and annually hold 30 or so international exhibitions to help SMEs’ international operation.

□ The meeting was realized when HKTDC visited Jeollabuk-do Innopolis for the purpose of ‘promoting exchange and collaboration between Hong Kong and South Korea’. And it discussed plans to activate the Jeollabuk-do Innopolis research institute spin-offs’s global operation such as how to create a cooperation network, advance into Hong Kong and China, participate in international fairs, and organize trade missions.

□ Director Seo Joon-seok of Jeollabuk-do Innopolis said, “Looking ahead, we will do our best to provide various supports for the global operation of the Jeollabuk-do Innopolis research institute spin-offs such as pioneering their sales channels and their participation in international fairs through close work cooperation with HKTDC.”

Attachment 1

Photos from the meeting

[Photo 1] Officials from the two agencies including Director Seo Joon-seok of Jeollabuk-do Innopolis and Benjamin Yau from HKTDC pose for a photo.

[Photo 2] A networking meeting between Jeollabuk-do Innopolis and HKTDC under way.

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