Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, will visit Japan next week to discuss ways for economic cooperation between Korea and Japan.
According to the business community on Nov. 11, Chey will attend the Tokyo Forum 2025, to be held on the 21st at Yasuda Auditorium at the University of Tokyo under the theme "Rethinking Capitalism."
Through the Tokyo Forum opening address, Chey is expected to address issues facing capitalism such as inequality, sustainability, and technological transition, and to present a new economic paradigm centered on solidarity. This is an extension of the "Korea-Japan economic solidarity" Chey has emphasized for years. The Korea-Japan economic solidarity is the concept that Korea and Japan should cooperate as a single economic community like the European Union (EU).
In line with the forum's subtheme, "Varieties, Contradictions, and Futures," Chey is also expected to offer views related to cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI).
Chey will also attend the business leaders session. Participants in the session include Fujii Teruo, president of the University of Tokyo; Iwai Mutsuo, senior vice chair of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives; and Park Cheol-hee, special adviser to the Japan Center for International Exchange (former ambassador to Japan).
The Tokyo Forum is an international forum co-hosted annually since 2019 by the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies and the University of Tokyo. This year's Tokyo Forum will be held for two days from the 21st to the 22nd.