A few days ago, I dropped by a convenience store to buy something. I laid down my take-out coffee that I brought to take out money from my wallet. For the moment, the clerk picked up my take-out coffee to find the barcode, but he spilled the coffee because it wasn’t wrapped. I realized that it was his old habits from his job finding a barcode thousands of times in a day. My take-out coffee was spilt over the counter but I smiled because this happening made me look myself back.

I also have old habits as I am working in this industry for 20 years so that sometimes I pushed our subcontractors

MECI is selected as an official PCO for ‘2014 International Congress of Mathematics (ICM)’, and it is a large-scale international conference in basic science and often called ‘Olympics of Mathematics.”

ICM held in every four years by IMU(international mathematical Union) has longest history of 112 years in basic science, and it has been held in Japan, China, and India among Asian countries. There are 4000 mathematicians from over 100 countries, and it is especially famous for Fields Medal which is like the Novel Prize in Mathematics given to the President of the hosting country. Moreover, it is known for the bridge to the developed country of science.

For example, the authority of this conference was shown that Jiang Zemin, the president of

China, attended the opening ceremony for full three hours in 2002 and the king of Sweden himself chaired a meeting in 2006.

MECI had successful experience to hold “2008 World Congress of Philosophy”, and also has been preparing for The XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association(ICLA) in 2010 as a head PCO in Korea.

Although MECI has developed since we opened the official website in January 2006, but it was not enough to show our achievement and vision to internal and external public. Now we open the English website and renovate the Korean website so please visit MECI’s official website (www.meci.co.kr) to see our recent project and updated news.

Intranet will be opened on New Year’s Day. After hundred times of discussions and sharing opinions each other for last 2 years, we’ve successfully done Intranet System.
It will bring effective work in progress to all MECI members with the necessary functions such as MECI Board, project and schedule management, personnel management, electronic payment and a report on performance. We all look forward to the intranet system in 2010!!

The proposal for ICAAP2011(International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific) was prepared by Korea Federation for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Busan and MECI were successfully selected to hold the congress in Bexco, Busan after bidding competition with New Zealand and Philippines at closing ceremony of 9th ICAAP2009 in Bali.

ICAAP 2011 will be held from August 26th to 30th, and it is the world largest congress with 4,000 participants of professional health care, medical scientists as well as gays and lesbians from 60 different countries.

Since the first congress in Canberra in 1990, supported by UNAIDS, ICAAP, the biennial congress, is eager to prevent HIV/AIDS and strengthen solidarity for human rights suffered from HIV/AIDS.

During the congress in 2011, AIDS experts from all over the world will stay in Busan for 5 days to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS issue with presenting their new ideas and searching the new technology

Moreover, it is expected to have an economic impact of more than 10 billion dollars.

In June 2009, IFOS (International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies) has selected Seoul, Korea as the next host city of IFOS World Congress which is going to be held in June 2013. This decision was made during the closing of the 19th World Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Seoul edged out Singapore in the bidding for the 20th IFOS World Congress expected to draw participants from 100 member countries to the 2013 event.

Winning the bid for this event involved the efforts and enthusiasm of the Korean Otorhinolaryngology Society and the cooperation and expertise provided by the City of Seoul and the Seoul Tourism Organization's (STO) systematic bidding support system.

The proposal for 18th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering from August 25th to 30th, 2013 in Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea was successfully accepted by ISH Steering Committee at the 16th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering from August 24th to 28th, 2009. Korean Host Organization for ISH 2013 had failed in the year of 2005 but this time Korean Host Organization for ISH 2013 had a partnership in advance of 6 months with PCO, MECI so that made an appropriate strategy for the successful attraction, manufacturing bidding books and promotion demo and onsite promotion etc. To sum up, this success was not only the passion of Korean Host Organization for ISH 2013 and supports from Korean government, many industries, associations but also there were two points which was

MECI attended the 26th IUSSP International Population Conference last September to promote to hold the next conference in 2013 in Busan, Korea. 2,500 scholars and experts of demography, economics, sociology and UN representatives from all over 114 countries gathered to discuss about population issues. MECI was part of “Korean Committee for 2013 IUSSP Conference in Busan,” and supported the committee by promoting Korea for next conference to all the participants at the exhibition during the conference. Also MECI organized the opportunities to meet council members of IUSSP at the luncheons or dinners to share the will of Korean Committee with them, so that it will help when they make a decision to choose a country for next conference.
Especially, at the closing ceremony, Dr. Un-tae Park, the head of Korean committee gave the oral presentation so that all participants were able to see the strong will of Korean Committee.
Overall, all the biding activities at the conference in Morocco was successful in sending the message that Korea is the best place for next conference

Regional seminar of International Association of Professional Congress Organizers (IAPCO) was held in Macau Hotel organized by IAPCO and Tourism Macau in March 16th to 19th for 4 days.

IAPCO is a Non-profit organization founded in 1968, and its members are consist of professional organizers of international meetings, conventions, special events. One of main work of IAPCO is education of professional organizers so its education program has been trustworthy of international fame since first seminar of 1975. Currently there are more than 1,700 people who have gained IAPCO’s seminar certification.

- Introduction to Association Meetings
- Creating the Project Plan/ Promotion of a Destination and Bidding to Win
- Sponsorship
- Financial Planning for the Congress
- Promotion of a Congress
- Venue Management/ Exhibitions
- Social Programme
- Programme Management& Abstract Handling
- Congress Registration and On-Site Arrangements
- Accountability& Crisis Management
- Financial Planning Exercise
- Workshop Presentations

During the seminar, all the participants were divided into 10 teams for 2 days and presented their projects on program, sponsorships, logos, cultural event, exhibition, and budgeting based on their training. The sample project was the conference which will be held in Macau in 2012.

MECI employees training program had been conducted for 2 days to improve communication skill and develop the leadership with invited trainer Cindy Chen who is the certified trainer in China and Taiwan across Asia.

In May 15, the communication skill program provided all MECI employees the chance to look back some problems in communication that we couldn’t recognize usually and solve them through the games and team activities.
In May 18, the leadership development program took place for the MECI employees above the assistant manager to understand the qualification as a leader and how important the leadership is.

MECI run off the workshop at Black Castle Resort, located at Tae-an, from 9th to 10th of October, 2009. This workshop has brought all 40 employees together.
As the sun set in the west, the formal occasion had started with having a dinner of lavish seafood and meat. Welcome and opening message from the chairman and Director of MECI, birthday party for members born in October and CEO's propose a toast to MECI were going on in a upbeat mood.
Next morning, we took a picture of us and boarded on the boat for sightseeing. For an hour and a half, we had enjoyed our time on the board and could look back upon the past.

Let’s finish the rest of this year without any problems! Cheers MECI!!