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International Sport Cooperation
Center of Korea (ISC) and British Embassy Seoul together hosted the UK-KOREA
GLOBAL SPORTS FORUM – Sharing Best Practice on 24, March in Seoul.
Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of
the British Olympic Committee and also Chairman of the London 2012 Organising
Committee, attended the forum as well as Mr. Yong-Soon Kim, the president of
the ISC, Scott Wightman, the British ambassador to Korea and also representatives
from the
Pyeongchang 2018 Organising Committee and Incheon Asian Games 2014 Organising
Committee.
Total of 8 British companies, Global
Infusion Group, Stadium TM, Icon World, Production Resource Group, ES Global Solutions, Smiths Detection, Octink and Quadratica
UK, most of which have plenty of experience of mega sport events such as the Olympic Games attended the forum.
The ISC, the host of the forum,
has also hosted the “ISC Conference” on several occasions to expand
international sport networks and facilitate sport cooperation among diverse
nations, and is planning to continue to be active this year by hosting the “ISC
Conference 2014” on April.
Mr. Yong-Soon
Kim, the President of the ISC, mentioned that the “UK-KOREA Global Sports Forum”
will give Korean sport officials professional and practical information of mega
sport events and also help bring success to hosting International sport
events such as the Incheon Asian Games 2014 and PyeongChang
2018 Olympic Winter Games.
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