JEJU-DO < invest Korea

According to Yonhap News,

(JEJU=Yonhap News) The WLED-5, an international conference for scientific and engineering exploration of energy efficient and solid-state lighting (SSL) and its applications, will convene at Ramada Plaza Hotel in Jeju on June 2-5.

Around 400 experts from Korea and abroad will take part in the conference, co-hosted by Korea Society of Optoelectronics and Society of LED and Solid State Lighting, to discuss and introduce the latest trend of next-generation high efficiency green light. They are also expected to present about 200 papers at the venue.

On its first day, Professor James Speck at the University of California Santa Barbara, a renowned scholar in LED, will give a keynote speech to the participants. Professor Karl Leo of Technical University Dresden in Germany will also have a keynote speech session on its second day of the conference.

“The WLED-5 will be a place to share the next-generation technologies in the field of optics.” said General Chair Park Seon-ju of Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. “There will also be an exhibition. And it will serve as a stepping stone for local tech companies to advance into foreign markets.”

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