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PR Booth Used to Request People’s Interest and Support for Hosting the 2026 ITS WC in Gangneung City

2021-05-20

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The 2021 Korea Institute of ITS Spring Conference* was held at St. John's Hotel, Gangneung, from Thursday, April 22 to Friday, April 23, 2021 where ITS Korea ran a booth to promote hosting the 2026 Gangneung ITS World Congress.
 
* 2021 Korea Institute of ITS Spring Conference: 300 participants from the ITS industry-academia-research fields attended and presented 142 papers relating to ITS and various new technologies such as C-ITS, autonomous driving, drone-related technology, smart city, e-Mobility, etc.
 
Various promotional events were successfully held at the booth, in particular, an Instagram event where supporting comments about hosting the 2026 Gangneung City ITS WC were uploaded and a Post-it event where ideas were collected on Gangneung Smart City, raising awareness of the activities to host the 2026 ITS WC. Through fierce competition, “Gangneung-si is a smart city full of pine scent” was selected as the winning phrase of the Post-it event.
 
The mayor of Gangneung city, Kim Han-Geun, visited the booth and requested citizens’ interest and full support saying, The city of Gangneung is making every effort to host the 2026 ITS WC through government-level cooperation including MOLIT** and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will help Korea to establish its national status as a leading country with ITS technology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
 
** MOLIT: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport