Asia-Pacific Weeks 2005


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APW 2005 - Focus Korea

The fifth Asia-Pacific Weeks (APW) took place from 19 September to 2 October 2005 and focused on Korea. Over 700,000 people visited the more than 300 events of this year’s APW. 250 of these events had a cultural focus, while 37 were devoted to business and 28 to science. 21 countries from the Asian-Pacific region were represented in the APW’s program. Korea, the country focus, attracted a large and interested public with around 110 cultural, business, and scientific events.

Highlights of this year’s APW were:

  • the opening ceremony with Germany’s President Horst Köhler,
  • the Korean-German Business Conference of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA),
  • the open-air festival “inMotion Asia-Pacific” at Museum Island,
  • the event series “Spaces and Shadows” on Southeast Asia at the House of World Cultures,
  • the tsunami conference with Federal Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul,
  • the lecture of the Korean stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang as part of the life sciences program of the TSB Technology Foundation Berlin,
  • the business day on Thailand organized by the Asia-Pacific Forum Berlin (APFB) with Deputy Prime Minister H. E. Phinij Jarusombat,
  • and the APFB’s debate on “China versus India” as a business location.

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