The 2019 Busan International Footwear, Techtextile & Fashion Fair, hosted by Busan Metropolitan City and supervised by the Busan Economic Promotion Agency, was held at BEXCO’s Exhibition Center from October 31through November 2.

The fair is a combination of three major exhibitions (Busan International Shoe Show, Busan Fashion Week, and Busan International Footwear, Techtextile & Fashion Fair), the event began in 1993 as the Busan International Shoe Leather Exhibition. Based on 27 years of experience, it offers intensive business and marketing opportunities in Korean/overseas techtextiles, footwear, and fashion.

FashionatingWorld  took the opportunity to interact with some of the prominent exhibitors at the event. One of these included Adage Korea lead by Kim su guen,Director & Kim yoo soo,CEO. Soo opines that though there is some slow down trickling in but his company is quite capable of navigating it by offering more and more variety and constant innovation in our products. The company exports a good volume of products to US & Philippines on constant basis. It participates in BISS on regular basis and we get local buyers and international buyers generally come from China & other Southeast Asian countries. 

Another exhibitor Leepyo Hong,Overseas Manager-Treksta part of Hypergrip Korea.  Treksta manufactures outsole and hypergrip high tech shoes mostly for Korea Government.Under Treksta, the company has its own facilities in Myanmar and Vietnam. Hong said, “global trade is shrinking which is quite a worrisome factor top on global buyers' minds as of now. But fortunately for us situation is so far so good. Looking ahead we need to invest more seriously in branding & marketing.”