World Knowledge Forum

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The World Knowledge Forum (WKF, 세계지식포럼) is a an international non-governmental organization, which aims to promote balanced global growth and prosperity through knowledge-sharing. Its efforts "brings together global leaders to address the importance of knowledge in meeting the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing world".^[1]

The World Knowledge Forum was conceived as part of the Vision Korea Project, a campaign launched by Maeil Business Newspaper in 1997, to "propose new visions for development to Korea and to the global community". The first World Knowledge Forum entitled ‘Shaping the New Millennium with Knowledge’ took place in 2000, shortly after the Asian financial crisis.

Partnering with Nikkei and Bloomberg, the Forum has now grown to encompass 1,830 sessions featuring over 5,518 speakers, and 62,821 participants in total from all around the world.

In September 2023, the 14th WKF was held in Seoul, South Korea, with speakers including Steve Wozniak,^[2] co-founder of Apple; James Norman Mattis, the 26th United States Secretary of Defense; Ron Klain, the 30th White House Chief of Staff; Yukio Hatoyama, the 93rd Prime Minister of Japan; Jenny Johnson, the President and CEO of Franklin Templeton; Abhijit Banerjee, 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Anthony Fauci, the 5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Oleksandra Matviichuk, founder of the Centre for Civil Liberties (2022 Nobel Prize in Peace) were present at the occasion under the theme, "Techno Big Bang: Humanity on the Shoulders of Giants".