The highly anticipated Character Licensing Fair 2023 was a remarkable showcase of creativity and innovation. From July 13th to July 16th, attendees were immersed in a captivating four-day event featuring characters, cartoons, animations, games, and more. Held at Hall A, the fair delighted enthusiasts of all ages.
Organized by Coex, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency, the 22nd edition of the Character Licensing Fair brought together over 160 companies, each representing the pinnacle of the Korean character industry.
From May 2 to 7 Coex celebrated the warm weather of spring with its 2023 Blossom the Hope event. Fully planned and organized by Coex Convention Center, the event took place across multiple spaces both in and around the center and featured art, music, food and many other uplifting events.
As a nod to the new era of generative AI, this year’s theme for Blossom the Hope, “Spread the JOY, Bloom with JOY”, was a phrase suggested by using ChatGPT. In line with this year’s theme, several programs and exhibitions featured flowers or the theme of ‘blooming’.
This year’s annual Smart Factory + Automation World 2023 took place in Coex from March 8 to 10 for a total of 3 days. As usual, the Coex organized event took up all the main exhibition floors at the venue. The aimex event took place in Hall A and the Korea Vision Show took place in Hall B. The main Smart Factory Expo took up the entire expanse of Hall C and Hall D.
Leading medical experts from around Asia Pacific specializing in tuberculosis and respiratory diseases gathered in Coex from November 17-20 for the 26th Congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR 2022). The event saw as many as 2,000 domestic and foreign experts from 45 countries descend on the venue in the city’s Gangnam district.
From November 2-5, all four of Coex’s main exhibition halls were filled once again for the 17th annual Coex Food Week, an event that, “brings together everything from the newest trends to the future vision of the F&B industry through a variety of exhibitions and conferences.” Over 30,000 visitors and participants were estimated to be in attendance for what is well-known to be Korea’s largest B2B and B2C Food and Beverage industry exhibition.
After two and a half years of domestic and hybrid type events, Coex is now once again welcoming several large-scale international congresses in the second half of 2022. With growing numbers of international event attendees arriving day by day, Coex looks forward to continue leading the way for a swift recovery from the COVID pandemic for Korea’s MICE industry.
On Monday, April 18th South Korea lifted social distancing restrictions that have limited gatherings and operation hours for most of the pandemic. With the announcement, Korea’s meetings industry effectively returns to normal operations, and events of all sizes are once again able to resume as normal with full attendee capacity.