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Events
The First World Festival
of Oriental Medicine in Jecheon
Choi Myeong-hyeon, mayor of Jecheon City
World Oriental Medicine-Bio Expo which began on
September 16 is now being held in Jecheon, Korea until October
16. This is the first world festival of oriental medicine. The organizing
committee projects about 50,000 foreign visitors from 16
countries around the world, and over a million visitors from nationwide
will come to this event.
"We will utilize this event as the driving force behind the local
economic revitalization and social welfare improvement to grow
into a world-class Oriental medicine city," said Choi Myeonghyeon,
mayor of Jecheon City at the interview. He, who has been
serving the city for 32 years, added, "With my long experience in
public service, I promise to make this Expo a very successful
event." At the World Oriental Medicine-Bio Expo, you can enjoy
a hands-on experience and obtain useful information through this
voyage of discovery of Korean medicine. In the Futuristic
Oriental Medicine Pavilion, you can catch a glimpse of the joyous
encounter of Korean medicine and the state-of-the-art IT
technology such as ▲diagnosis of physical constitution according
to photos of people's faces, ▲3-dimensional image analyzers of
pulse, meridian function diagnosis devices, image analyzers of
skin. It will offer the vision of Jecheon as a WHO Korean medicine
Health city. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn
about the value of natural herbs with stories about their natural
benefits in the Medical Herb Study Pavilion. Explore 300 herbs
and medical materials derived from animals and minerals as
recorded in "Donguibogam", a classic medical textbook on the
origins of Korea's herbs and oriental medicine. The expo will also
offer diverse sightseeing attractions such as the Herb Garden, ginseng
cultivated from water and the real experience of showering
with Jecheon's native Hwanggi(milk vetch roots).
There will also be a Korean Traditional Medical Clinic and
Prestigious Korean Medicine Hospital Pavilion where visitors
can be provided with diagnostic, counseling and treatment services
performed by famous herbal doctors from renowned
Korean medicine hospitals. There will be various exhibitions and
experiential programs as well. Check out diverse artifacts and instruments
related to Korean medicine, such as books, acupunctural
needles, herb grinders and herb boilers.
At the Oriental Medicine Bioscience Museum, visitors can take
a journey into health with 4D image diagnosis, which will give a
better understanding of the body, the history of disease, and the
principles of Korean medicine and its diagnostic and treatment
methods. 3D and 4D theaters will welcome visitors with informative
movies for children. Since there are plenty of things to do and
places to play for children including theaters and the Children's
Korean Medicine Playground, this Expo will be a great and valuable
trip for families as well.
One of the meritorious retainers known as "healthy" Korean
food, fermented foods have their own space in this Expo, too.
Visitors will see fermented foods from various nations, as well as
their fermentation methods and production processes.
Plus, several symposia are being held along with the Expo. The
purpose of these symposia is to hold diverse symposium events to
lay the groundwork for transforming eco-friendly Jecheon into a
world-class city of Korean medicine, link Korean medicine with
76 KOREA IT TIMES | October 2010