THE SOUTH Korean capital will welcome a number of high profile congresses in 2012, with the Nuclear Security Summit in March being the year’s heavyweight event.
The Nuclear Security Summit will see the gathering of 55 heads of states and international organisations and other summit-related visitors at Seoul’s Coex Convention and Exhibition Center, where the G-20 Seoul Summit was held in 2010.
In a press statement, the Seoul Convention Bureau said the success of the Nuclear Security Summit was “expected to showcase the city’s meetings infrastructure to the world and bolster the city’s reputation as the world’s number five convention destination (as ranked by UIA in 2010)”.
The statement said Seoul’s successful hosting of the G-20 Seoul Summit and subsequent launch of “top hotels such as The Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel and the Conrad Seoul” placed the city “in a strong position for the influx of visitors expected for the Nuclear Security Summit, which is expected to exceed the figures for the G-20 Seoul Summit”.
The week-long G-20 Seoul Summit had over 20,000 summit-related visitors.
Other mega events on Seoul’s events line-up include the 73rd Skal International Congress (1,000 participants), the 12th International Congress on Mathematics Education (5,000 participants), the 16th International Congress of Oriental Medicine (16,000 participants) and the 43rd World Intellectual Property Congress (4,000 participants).
