Third Annual Conference for Business with Korea 2012

Hosted by The Israel Export Institute and YONACO Group  for the third time the Annual Conference for Business with Korea in Israel took place on December 3^th, 2012 at the The Leonardo City Tower Hotel in Tel-aviv.

About 300 leading Israeli executives and entrepreneurs from various industries, as well as few delegations from Korea were guests in this unique Korea-Israel business conference. The event was extensively covered by the Israeli media .

The Korea Business Conference was a two-day event. The first conference day was dedicated to lectures and panel discussions on Korea-Israel business cooperation,  cross-border investments, fund raising , Mergers and Acquisitions and strategic partnerships between Koreans and Israeli firms.

The second conference day was dedicated to business-to-business meetings between Israeli companies and the Korean delegations. The rest of the week was dedicated to visit Israeli companies at their locations and meeting with Israeli governmental executives.

Among the notable guests at the conference this year were H.E. Mr. Kim Il-Soo, The Korean Ambassador to Israel; Mr. Stef Wertheimer, founder of the ISCAR group, which is considered one of the most successful investors in Korea; Commissioner Choi Byung-Rok of DG Free Economic Zone; Founder of L&S Venture Capital, Mr. Joo Seong-Jin;  Dr. Park Joon-Seok CEO of Hanmi Medicare; the second largest pharmaceutical and medical devices company in Korea, Mr. Park Sung-Jin, a Director from SL Corporation, a leading supplier to the automobile industry and many others. This year’s event was hosted by Mr. Yigal Haccoun, Deputy Director of the Israel Export Institute.

• Invitation and Article from the Israeli Chamber of Commerce – Link
• Article on an Israeli blog about business with Korea – Link
• Article on the official Israeli seaports magazine Port2Port – Link
• Invitation and Article from the Israeli Manufactures Association – Link
• Post on a Korean Hallyu Blog at the biggest blog website in Israel – Tapuz – Link
• Invitation and Article from the Israeli Chamber of Commerce – Link
• Article on the Israeli marketing portal – Link
• Article on a news website focusing on Asia called iAsia – Link
• Article on the local Tel-Aviv News “Telavivi” – Link
• 2 Articles on the biggest news website in Israel – Ynet – Link, Article 2
• Article on the main Economic newspaper website in Israeli – Link
• Article on the local news website MyNet – Link
• Article on the leading English newspaper in Israel – Jerusalem Post – Link, Link2
• Article on the leading Economic newspaper – Globes – Link
• Article on the 2nd most read deaily Newspaper – Yedihoth Ahronoth – Link
• Artile on Ma’ariv – Link
• Article on leading daily newspaper – Israel Hayom – Link
• Article on Yated Ne’eman – Link
• Item on Channel 10 “London and Kirshenbaum”

• Agenda