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MOU Signed between International Coffee Organization (ICO) and Seoul Int’l Cafe Show

date : 2016.08.26

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MOU Signed between International Coffee Organization (ICO) and Seoul Int&rsquol Cafe Show

Seoul Int&rsquol Cafe Show and World Coffee Leaders Forum, has established its MOU with the UN affiliated organization, ICO(International Coffee Organization), in order to cooperate together to maintain a sustainable development of the global coffee industry.

Cafe Show / WCLF was invited to the ICO assembly held in London, to carry out a presentation based on the Korea coffee market and its prospects to the delegates of 90 countries as well as the observers. Afterwards, Cafe Show / WCLF organizing committee signed its partnership MOU with Roberio Oliveira Silva, the executive director of International Coffee Organization. This agreement made between a UN affiliated organization and a private exhibition organizer (ahead of South Korea&rsquos registration as a member of ICO) verifies the significance of South Korea&rsquos coffee industry within the global coffee market, as well as the international status of Seoul Int&rsquol Cafe Show as &lsquoAsia&rsquos No.1&rsquo industrial leader.

Seoul Int&rsquol Cafe Show has been under the coffee industry spotlight for many years due to its status as the largest scaled, coffee show in Asia. It will be held in all halls of Coex, Seoul from November 20th to 23rd this year. In 2013, Seoul Int&rsquol Cafe Show attracted approximately 430 exhibitors from 34 countries as well as 100,000 visitors from 63 countries.

Its major concurrent event and the first coffee forum ever held in Asia, World Coffee Leaders Forum gathered global scholars and leaders from 34 countries last year, to discuss the major pending issues of global coffee industry and seek resolutions. Roberio Oliveira Silva, the executive director of ICO graced his attendance at the forum in 2013 and delivered his key note speech based on the issues of global coffee market and its trend.

This year in 2014, Roberio is planning to re-attend the show.

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