Korea Post Eyes Overseas Market

Stages "Korea Postal Forum 2008"to promote exports of postal IT equipment, technology systems

Korea Post of the Ministry of Knowledge and Economy staged the "Korea Postal Forum 2008"on April 29-30 at Post Tower, Korea Post Seoul Postal Service, the only international academic gathering to discuss such subjects as postal technology and policies.
With the theme of 'A Challenge for the New Postal Business,'the forum this year attracted some 600 people including those from international postal organizations and postal services from foreign countries.
President Chung Kyung-won of Korea Post said the forum was aimed at finding new means to open a new market and create added-values in the area of the postal service in the face of rising customer demand for diversified and upgraded services and at the same time make the Korean postal IT companies well-known around the world so that they might be able to make advances into global markets.
Korea Post also provided training to students from the Asia-Pacific Postal College on the highly developed Korean postal technology
in a bid to help Korean postal IT firms further crack open the world postal IT market.
Korea Post has been operating a task force for the export of postal IT equipment and has held the "Korea Postal Forum"to support exports of postal IT equipment and technology systems since 2006. As a result, it was able to sign export contracts for postal equipment worth $85 million and $37 million for postal IT systems.
Important guests at the forum included Huang Guozhong, deputy Sec. Gen. of the Union of Postal Unions (UPU) and Somchai Reopanichkul, Sec. Gen. of the Asia-Pacific Postal Union (APPU).
Huang delivered a speech entitled, "The Universal Postal Union and Postal e-Business: A Dynamic Relationship,"while the APPU Sec. Gen. made a speech entitled, "APPU's e-Business Strategy,"to show the vision and policies for e-Business to be promoted throughout the world.
Dr. Shin Yong-ho of the Electronics Technology Research Institute (ETRI) announced the research results on e-Business and logistics business by industries, universities and research institutions in the country in his speech entitled, "Technologies connected to new services for Internet postal service."At the display hall set up as a side exhibit, Korea Post had its own booth for public relations, ETRI exhibited new products developed by its researchers and postal service firms operated their own booths to display their new postal products. The exhibition was arranged so that it would be able to show the progress in various areas of the postal business in Korea including the control system for postal distribution, the RFID system for postal service, postal delivery system without humans and PDA, among others.
The forum kicked off with the opening remarks by President Chung Kyung-won, followed by congratulatory speeches by Huang Guozhang and Somchai Reopanichkul.
Following the coffee break, Chief Koh Kwang-sup of Korea Post's postal business team, spoke on new postal business and Korea Post.
Other speakers included Director Hong Sung-hwan of LG CNS who spoke about the "IT Mega Trend and Development Direction of Informatization of Logistics"and Professor Song Sang-hwa of Incheon University whose speech was entitled, "The Third Party Logistics Business and Strategic Indication."Deputy Assistant Minister Kwon Tae-kyun, in charge of the trade and investment office of the MKE, said in his opening speech that he hopes Korean companies will be able to make contributions to expanding the infrastructure of the resources-rich countries so those countries would be able to strengthen the foundation for industrial development. nw

The participants of the Korea Postal Forum 2008 on April 29-30 at Post Tower, Korea Post Seoul Postal Service.

President Chung Kyung-won of Korea Post at the podium of the Korea Postal Forum 2008.