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HCM City (VNA) – The Multi-Trend Expo & Global Business People’s HUB (Mega Us Expo) 2024, a Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) multi-sector exhibition, is scheduled from August 22-24 in Ho Chi Minh City with 200 pavilions of Korean partners, more than 30 centres, startups, universities together with associations, startups in Vietnam.
Participants will have a chance to connect with more than 200 Korean enterprises, startups while experiencing and shopping with more than 600 Korean advanced products, technologies, and services at the event. They can also directly meet and boost linkages with Korean manufacturers, call for investment from many countries, as well as connecting with agencies, organisations, universities, and trade associations from Vietnam and the RoK.
The expo will intensify trade and investment connections in many fields from food, cosmetics to technology, and is expected to attract 5,000 visitors and create 1,500 business-to-business matchings.
It is also a bridge to connect business cooperation between Vietnamese and Korean enterprises while promoting the startup spirit among youngsters through startup or fund calling competitions.
Mega Us Expo is one of the activities in the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation to support innovative startups, promote market expansion for Korean and Vietnamese enterprises between the Jeonbuk Creative Economy Innovation Centre and the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City.
The collaboration aims to support startups of the two sides, assist enterprises in Ho Chi Minh in particular and Vietnam in general to seek and apply technology from the RoK for production, while forming a joint cooperation programme in project incubation activities and start-ups./.