![]() ![]() Six years later, and much has been learned. ![]() IMG 8744 - Korea International Boat Show 2013 © Guy Nowell It was also an excellent opportunity for Korean businesses to get in touch with foreign marine companies – after all, nobody was going sell dozens of boats, since there weren’t the marinas in which to put them and anyway, a 60’ motoryacht is hardly an impulse purchase. The attendance figures may have been rather skewed by the appearance of hundreds (no… thousands) of kindergarten children bussed in for the Marine Festival, but it was a success in everyone’s books. As an incentive for regional manufacturers and dealers to introduce themselves to Korea, it was second to none. The first KIBS offered free exhibition space for overseas exhibitors as well as air tickets and accommodation. Why not go boating? So a grand plan was hatched kick-start a Korean marine leisure industry This included the building of marinas, the creation of marine industry development zones (industrial estates, in short), a programme of boating-sailing-yachting education and, to help spread the message to one and all, the Korea International Boat Show and Gyeonggi Marine Festival complete with pop concerts, kite flying competitions, exhibition halls dedicated to revealing the Grand Plan, and alongside it all the first running of the Korea Match Cup, part of the World Match Racing Tour). Six years ago saw the legislation of a five-day working week in Korea, and it was widely imagined that this would result in a lot of people with savings in the bank and looking for something to do with their new-found leisure time. Since its inception in 2008 the Korea International Boat Show (KIBS) has always been a government-sponsored event. Conference Day at the Korea International Boat Show 2013, and the opening remarks from the Governor of Gyeonggi Province, Kim Moon Soo, were certainly interesting. ![]()
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