This rendering from the Jecheon city government shows the venue of the 2025 Jecheon Korean Medicine Natural Product Industry Expo. (Yonhap)
JECHEON, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The opening of the 2025 Jecheon Korean Medicine Natural Product Industry Expo is just one month away.
The 2025 Jecheon Korean Medicine Natural Product Industry Expo, scheduled to open Sept. 20 at Jecheon Oriental Medicine Expo Park in the North Chungcheong Province city, 116 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will run for a month until Oct. 19 under the theme of “Future with Natural Products, Meet a Better Future,” organizers said Thursday.
Jecheon, one of the three major medicinal herb markets back in the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), boasts a diverse range of medicinal plants thanks to its naturally blessed mountainous terrain, including Mount Worak, and the geographical advantage has allowed the city to serve as a hub for the distribution and production of medicinal herbs for a long time.
The upcoming expo is the third government-approved international event on oriental medicine hosted by Jecheon, following the 2010 World Oriental Medicine-Bio Expo and the 2017 Jecheon International Korean Medicine Bio Industry Expo.
This photo from the Jecheon city government shows Jecheon Oriental Medicine Expo Park. (Yonhap)
This year, the topic has been expanded to include natural products, a field closely related to oriental medicine. As the nation’s only integrated natural products event combining industry, academia and culture, this year’s expo will offer a glimpse into the global natural products industry, the organizers said.
Natural products refer to plants, animals, microorganisms and their metabolic products obtained from nature and include herbal medicines and medical herbs. They are considered a future high value-added industry due to their wide usage in everyday medicines, health foods, cosmetics and herbal medicine products.
The expo will feature four themed exhibition halls: thematic exhibition hall for oriental medicine natural products, industry hall for oriental medicine natural products, international exchange hall for oriental medicine natural products, and experience hall for oriental medicine natural products and the Jecheon Herbal Medicine Market.
It will also provide opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry through 13 academic conferences and events with the participation of domestic and international academic institutions.
The Jecheon city government and the North Chungcheong Province government said they have so far sold 111,744 expo tickets in advance. Ticket holders will receive free admission to Jecheon’s popular tourist destinations, such as the Cheongpung Cultural Heritage Complex, Uirimji History Museum and Oksunbong Suspension Bridge, and discounts when riding the cable car on Cheongpung Lake.
(Yonhap)
