KCCI to host Jeju Forum

The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry building (KCCI) in Seoul / Korea Times file

By Kim Hyun-bin

The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) is scheduled to host the 45th Jeju Forum at Jeju Haevichi Hotel Resort for three days from July 13, inviting prominent speakers to address critical issues surrounding the business environment.

The Jeju Forum is the largest corporate summer forum in Korea, but was suspended for three years due to COVID-19.

"We have carefully selected and invited prominent speakers to help businessmen facing difficult internal and external circumstances to plan their future business strategies," KCCI Vice Chairman Woo Tae-hee said.

Under the theme "Insight and Healing in Jeju," the forum will be attended by many speakers from Korea and abroad, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choo Kyung-ho and Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Lee Chang-yang.

Overseas speakers include Columbia University history professor Adam Tooze and Shin Yong-seok, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Tooze gained global recognition through his 2018 book "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World," about the 2008 global financial crisis and 10 years of history thereafter. He will give a keynote lecture on the topic of "the process of reorganizing the global economic paradigm" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis.

Shin will give a keynote lecture on the future direction of the Korean economy amidst fears of stagflation and uncertainties in the global economy.

Deputy Prime Minister Choo will introduce the policy direction for the Korean economy to find new growth, and Minister Lee will present the directions of the new government in the industry, trade and energy sectors.

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