On July 1 (local time), Governor Hak-kyu Sohn visited the EU Commerce Acceleration Organization (formal name : IT Trade Mission to the EU), which is organized of Gyeonggi-do companies, and encouraged entrepreneurs who participated the meeting.

Sohn talked and encouraged participants at the meeting and previewed electronic trade through the Internet with buyers and domestic companies at the cyber consultation exhibition. 26 IT related companies in electronics, electric, security devices and other fields in Gyeonggi-do are member of the EU Commerce Acceleration Organization and has held consultation meetings in Paris on June 24, in London on the 26th and in Amsterdam on July 1.

Governor Sohn will also visit the Philips headquarters on the same day at 11:30 and discuss the factory construction of LG Philips LCD Corporation, which is the Korean joint corporation, with Jan P. Oosterveld, head of Philips’s strategic team.

Sohn expressed his gratitude towards LG Philips LCD Corp. for choosing the Paju district as the construction site for their factory. LG Philips LCD Corp is a joint venture of Korea’s representative company LG and the worldwide enterprise Philips. He explained the construction progress and said he and the people of Gyeonggi-do will support LG Philips LCD Corp. to become a trustworthy international enterprise.

Jan P. Oosterveld also expressed his gratitude towards the satisfactory promotion of the factory construction in the industrial complex and said it was all made possible by the positive support from the Republic of Korea government.