‘Korea-ASEAN Business Forum for Green Growth and Cooperation’ was organized by KDS (Korea Institute for Development Strategy) on 24-25 September 2009 in RENAISSANCE Hotel, Seoul to enhance the cooperation and understanding between Korea and ASEAN business leaders in exploration of new opportunities in green industry towards mutual prosperity. Under the sponsorship of Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea, around 50 professionals from ASEAN secretariat, ASEAN foundation, green-industry business of ASEAN and Korea participated in the forum, and took the chance to expand their network and share the project information on bio-energy and energy efficiency.
Especially the forum lent itself to a good opportunity to promote Korea’s green growth initiative with the active participation of Korean green-growth experts from various institutions including Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Korea Forest Service, Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Samsung Economic Research Institute as well as Center for Green Growth Research in POSCO Research Institute.
The Forum mainly consisted of the capacity building workshop on “Economic development and strategic growth of enterprises”, “Global environment change and business strategy”, and the forum on “Opportunities and schemes of Korea-ASEAN cooperation for green growth”, and lastly, one on one meeting between Korean and ASEAN enterprises. In addition, the field visit to SAMSUNG Electronics and Incheon Global Fair & Festival was also arranged to raise the awareness of Korea’s unique economic development experience and its new green growth initiative.
The participants evaluated this two day forum as a very practical platform for business leaders in sharing their vision on the challenges and opportunities of the time, discussing how to further take the green initiative together in Asia through actual business generation.
