Promising exhibitions for the future

Two of EXCOs exhibitions were designated as promising exhibitions for the future by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy. This is the result of EXCOs efforts to improve its quality since its commencement in 2001.

2002 Digital Entertainment Industry Exposition (DENPO 2003)

DENPO 2003 is an ambitious challenge to the international digital entertainment industry. The entertainment and digital contents industry is a promising industry for the future, with its size and exports to Asian countries like China and Taiwan actively increasing. Although there is a Game Show held in Tokyo, Japan, it is mainly focused on video arcades. Thus, Daegus digital entertainment exposition is a strategic exhibition, which targets the niche market in the entertainment industry combined with the strengths of the Korean game industry. In fact, the Korean Entertainment System Industry Association and the Korea Game Industry Alliance, which have 200 membership companies respectively, are joining this exhibition so it is designated as one of the promising exhibitions for the future by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy. With the investments of all government supporting funds to host overseas buyers, it is expected that there will be an increase of overseas buyer participation. EXCO expects the arrival of 15,000 buyers including 250 domestic and foreign companies and 5,000 overseas buyers. The exhibition will focus on digital contents, particularly online and mobile games that are currently popular in the world market. According to Mi-Hwa Jang, the exhibition project manager, ?The 2003 Digital Entertainment Industry Exposition aims to concentrate on practical consultation and exports to give benefits to the participating companies.? It also plans to strategically invite Asian big buyers including Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese buyers for three years in the future to provide an opportunity to publicize superior Korea's technologies to the world market.

The 3rd Daegu International Textile Dyeing Industry and Machinery Trade Fair (Dytex 2003)

The Daegu International Textile Industry and Machinery Trade Fair (Dytex 2003), aimed at developing the textile business as a value-added core industry for the last two years, is also attracting public attention as it has been designated as a promising exhibition for the future by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy. Dytex 2003, sponsored by Daegu Metropolitan City and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy and co-hosted by EXCO and Halsol Trade Fair Co. Ltd, is an exhibition that seeks to develop dyeing processing technology, dyeing machinery and textile products as value-added items, and to differentiate domestic dyeing products from cheap Chinese dyeing products. Its goal is also to lead as an environment friendly industry with an exhibition of proper wastewater disposal systems, thus avoiding the image of a pollution-causing industry. Dytex 2003 shows new alternatives to activate domestic textile and dyeing-related industries, which have been showing downward trends, by adding ?digital dyeing and natural dying-related? areas as well as dyeing processing companies, dyeing equipment companies, and chemical and wastewater processing areas. During the exhibition, an International Dyeing Technology Seminar is held in commemoration of Dytex 2003 for Japanese, American and Chinese speakers. The Seminar will discuss the current status of the dyeing industry and its future development, while the Autumn Academic Symposium of the Korean Dyeing and Processing Association will be performed as a large-scale international academic conference with 400 participants. It is expected that Daegu will return to its renaissance period of the textile dyeing industry during the 1970s and 1980s thorough the 2003 Daegu International Textile Dyeing Industry and Machinery Trade Fair.

Daegu Int'l Food Industry Exhibition(dafood 2003)

Daegu Food Expo 2003 will be held at the 1st floor of EXCO from March 29 to June 1. The Food Expo, compared with the others held in EXCO, has recorded the biggest number of visitors. Around 150 companies, including the most famous in Daegu province - Kumbokju, will participate in the food expo. The participants will come from local and foreign brewery companies, franchise restaurants selling coffee, noodles, lunch basket, ice cream, bakery goods, pizza, raw fish dishes, and tuna, package companies, including Korea Paching Machine and Daewon Chemcial Corporation, manufactures of hotel and kitchen appliance, processed food, can food and producer of snake food, and other related companies. Furthermore, there is a special section reserved for top quality agricultural products and processed foods from the province of Gyeongsangbuk - do. Visitors will witness a world of good taste and stylishness, especially when they see the product from Daegu and Gyeongbuk Province. When the 2002 Korea and Japan World Cup were held last June, visitors of the Food Expo in Daegu Expo enjoyed the special food show provided by participating companies. Through the help of World Cup visitors and special events, the food companies successfully obtained contracts with large discount stores thus, expanding their distribution network. This summer, many food companies will join the Daegu Food Expo to take the Universiad chance.