Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

Korea’s Director General for Multilateral Trade and Legal Affairs Oh Choong-jong attended the Workshop on Recent Approaches to the Domestic Regulation of Services in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Region held at Songdo ConvensiA in Incheon, Korea, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

In his congratulatory remarks, the director general stated, “The services industry is the driving force of APEC’s economic growth, and its importance continues to grow as its scope expands with digital transformation.” He added, “APEC, as an incubator of new ideas, has long supported the multilateral trading system. We hope this workshop will serve as a catalyst for achieving meaningful outcomes at the 14^th WTO Ministerial Conference scheduled for next year.”

The MOTIE workshop brought together government delegations from Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US; Jaime Coghi Arias, Chair of the WTO negotiations on services domestic regulation; Jillian DeLuna, Convenor of the APEC Group on Services; as well as representatives from the APEC Business Advisory Council, the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, and Walmart, and other domestic and international industry figures and experts.