The week of Sept. 4 was politically tense on the Korean peninsula, but construction project owners, contractors and finance experts met in the spirit of cooperation and commerce in Seoul, South Korea.
Representative of more than 80 different agencies from 46 countries came to talk about their infrastructure project needs with hundreds of mainly Korean engineers and contractors. Six transnational development groups, including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, were also in the mix. The event, called the Global Infrastructure Cooperation Conference, was sponsored by the International Contractors Association of Korea, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.