'Korea-Japan Cooperation' Future Economy Forum held on November 3... Pre-register starting today

Pre-registration for the general public for the ‘2026 Future Economy Forum’ hosted by Yonhap News began on the 13th.

Yonhap News will accept applications from the general public for participation in the '2026 Future Economy Forum', which will be held on November 3 at The Grand Lotte Seoul, Jung-gu, Seoul, under the theme of 'Fragmented global economy, Korea-Japan market connecting as one' from the 13th to the 28th.

Those wishing to participate can apply on the forum pre-registration website (http://yonhapnews-forum.co.kr/page/registration02.php).

Yonhap News established this forum to find ways to cooperate with Korea and Japan for sustainable growth as the bloc and fragmentation of the global economy accelerates due to the U.S.-China hegemony competition and successive wars.

At this event, we will explore the possibility of a transnational single market beyond economic cooperation between Korea and Japan.

Japan's Kyodo News, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry sponsor the forum.

Hwang Dae-il, president of Yonhap News, will deliver an opening speech, and SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won, chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will deliver a congratulatory speech. Chairman Choi has always advocated the need for a ‘Korea-Japan economic community.’

A total of three sessions, moderated by Park Sang-jun, a professor at the Institute of International Studies at Waseda University in Japan, will discuss how the two countries can overcome historical conflicts related to their past and move forward on the path to sustainable growth and common prosperity based on mutual trust.

In the first session, 'From a Korea-Japan competitor to a cooperative nation amid U.S.-China hegemony', Asan Institute for Policy Studies Chairman Yoon Young-gwan, who served as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Roh Moo-hyun administration, and LG U+'s Chief Technology Officer Lee Sang-yeop will appear as speakers and diagnose why Korea and Japan should transform into a strategic cooperative relationship.

In the second session, 'The world's four largest economies, Korea-Japan economic community', Lee Se-young, CEO of Rutton Technologies, and Hiroaki Ishiguro, head of the Global Strategy Division of Lotte Holdings of Japan, will tell examples of cooperation between companies from the two countries.

Next, Professor Emeritus Yang Ki-ho of Sungkonghoe University, who served as Consul General in Chugogo, will look back on the relationship between the two countries since the normalization of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan in 1965, and propose to promote strategic solidarity between Korea and Japan using the 30th anniversary of the Kim Dae-jung and Obuchi Joint Declaration (2028) as an opportunity.

The last session was 'The future of Korea-Japan coexistence...' Under the title ‘Joint response to hyper-aging, K-J culture synergy’, Seigakuin University professor Haruki Ikumi and world-renowned pop tenor Lim Hyung-joo, chairman of the Yongsan Cultural Foundation, look at the possibility of cooperation in the social and cultural sectors.

For inquiries regarding participation, please contact the Forum Management Office by email ([email protected]).

Previously, the 1st Future Economy Forum in 2024 highlighted the current status and challenges of Korea's high-tech industry using the keyword 'semiconductor', and last year, the issue of 'Korea's economic cooperation with Africa, the land of opportunity' was discussed.