Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced that the 42nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Automotive Dialogue (AD)* will be held from Friday, August 1 to Saturday, August 2 at Songdo ConvensiA in Incheon, Korea, in connection with APEC 2025.

Established in 1999, the APEC AD is an official public-private consultative body where governments and industries across the APEC region share key policy issues and trends in the automobile industry and explore cooperative measures together.

Governments and industries from 14 APEC member economies, including the Republic of Korea, the US, Japan, and China, will be attending the forum, co-chaired again by MOTIE and the Korea Automobile & Mobility Association (KAMA) following the 41st AD held from May 8 to 9 at Jeju ICC.

Main agendas of the forum include prospects for the global automobile market; strategies for the ecosystem of electric vehicles and batteries; social effects of future technologies such as AI and autonomous driving; and the inclusiveness and sustainability of future mobility. The Korean delegation will present on battery safety technology trends, hydrogen mobility, future automobile technologies including connected autonomous driving, and relevant policy issues.

Prior to this forum, an AD workshop for working-level experts was held on July 31, focusing on sustainable development of the automobile industry and possible ways to realize human-centered mobility to promote technology collaboration and policy exchange between APEC members.

This APEC AD will provide an opportunity for participating APEC members to seek joint responses to key future automotive issues and to solidify cooperation for building a sustainable and inclusive future automobile ecosystem.