South Korea is now 3^rd in the Union of International Associations (UIA) country rankings for top international convention destinations.

Seoul has also improved its ranking as a convention city by coming in 4^th in the UIA rankings (5^th last year) and 9^th in the International Congress and Convention AQssociation (ICCA) rankings (17^th last year). Furthermore Busan, Korea’s second city has knocked Copenhagen out and now sits within the top 10 cities in the UIA rankings.

Seoul assisted South Korea’s leap to 12^th in the top country destinations according to ICCA, and in the UIA’s rankings, with Busan’s charge into the top 10, this puts South Korea proudly in 3^rd place behind Singapore and USA.

Certainly this demonstrates that South Korea’s approach to promote knowledge hubs throughout the peninsular is working well. There are many strong business reasons to hold conventions in the country sending meetings to key centres for excellence in a number of fields.

http://www.miceseoul.com/webzine/201406/icca_top10.html#.U5XfoCior9U

http://www.meetpie.com/ami/news/newsdetails.aspx?t=South-Korea-shines-in-familiar-looking-UIA-meetings-tables&newsid=18901

http://www.uia.org/system/files/private/Press%20Release%202014_0.pdf

http://www.bto.or.kr/renewal/07_mice/ms09_01.php