- The Mayor plans to attend the 2023 World Korean Business Convention to share Incheon’s vision for Korean businesses and attract new investments -

Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok is on his way to the United States to promote the City’s various projects involving overseas Koreans, and to build a “Hansang” (Korean business) network that could help bring in more capital investment into Incheon.

The City announced that Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok will visit Anchorage, Alaska, and Anaheim, California, over a 6-day itinerary between October 8 and 13. 

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<Meeting with Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson>

<Meeting with Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy>

During this visit, the Mayor plans to attend the opening ceremony of the 21st World Korean Business Convention at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, to help Incheon’s bid to host the next WKBC in 2024. The Mayor will also visit the Incheon pavilion set up at the Convention to help attract fresh investments from Korean businesses and investors from across the globe.

With 3,000 attendees from over 50 countries around the world (1,500 from companies owned by Koreans and overseas Koreans and 1,500 from US-owned corporations) and 30,000 visitors, this year’s WKBC is the largest event hosted outside Korea since the Overseas Koreans Agency opened in Incheon last June. As for Incheon, the City helped more than 20 local businesses participate in the event.

On October 11, the opening day of the WKBC, the Mayor will attend the opening ceremony, visit the Incheon pavilion to support participating businesses from Incheon, and also help the City win its bid to host the 22nd WKBC next year.

Before making his way to the WKBC in Anaheim, Mayor Yoo will visit Incheon’s sister cities Anchorage and Burbank to strengthen its international ties and cooperative relations.

The Mayor will meet with Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to discuss ways to encourage exchange and cooperation between the two cities, including possible personnel exchange, trade, and tourism, and to ask for added local support extended to overseas Koreans residing not only in Anchorage, but also other cities and towns across the state. 

Moreover, Mayor Yoo plans to establish cooperative ties by meeting with high-ranking US federal officials and Korean entrepreneurship groups playing a leading role in both politics and commerce in the US. He plans on sharing news on important projects involving overseas Koreans and building new local connections.

The Mayor said, “This business trip feels particularly special as it is my first visit to the Americas since we opened the Overseas Koreans Agency in Incheon.” He added, “Incheon as a city has seen its people migrate to the Americas for 120 years now, and it serves as a hub for the 7.5 million overseas Koreans around the world. My administration will work diligently to prepare projects designed to benefit overseas Koreans and create the best and most convenient environment for doing business and also living in Korea.”