Busan Mayor Park Heong-joon is increasing networking with worldwide sports activities figures and strengthening sports activities diplomacy, leveraging the World Anti-Doping Company Common Convention that has been happening in Busan since December 1.
Mayor Park held consecutive conferences on December 2 with key figures who attended the convention opening ceremony, together with Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry, former President Thomas Bach, World Anti-Doping Company President Witold Bańka, and former Japanese Sports activities Company Commissioner Koji Murofushi.
Following the convention opening ceremony on the identical day, he carried out an official assembly with Azerbaijan Minister of Youth and Sports activities Farid Gayibov. Each side shared their precedence insurance policies and implementation experiences within the sports activities sector and mentioned cooperation instructions for future world sports activities occasion internet hosting and sports activities diplomacy enlargement.
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, has emerged as a global sports activities metropolis by internet hosting the 2025 UFC occasion, extending the F1 Grand Prix internet hosting, designation because the 2026 World Sports activities Capital, and attracting the ‘SportAccord World Sport & Enterprise Summit.’ Each side agreed to constantly share such experiences and achievements whereas collaborating on world sports activities hub metropolis methods.
On the morning of December 3, Mayor Park held an official assembly with United Arab Emirates (UAE) Deputy Minister of Sports activities Ghanim Al Hajri. Each side extensively mentioned future cooperation measures together with sports activities coverage growth instructions, sports activities trade activation, and world sports activities occasion growth.
Busan Metropolis plans to actively pursue expanded internet hosting of worldwide sports activities competitions, sports activities trade activation, and growth of worldwide sports activities occasions that folks worldwide can get pleasure from collectively, based mostly on the strengthened sports activities diplomacy community by this convention.
Mayor Park Heong-joon said, “This World Anti-Doping Company Busan Common Convention has supplied a possibility to strengthen sports activities diplomacy as key figures from the worldwide sports activities group visited Busan to debate varied sports activities agendas,” including, “We plan to ascertain the muse for Busan to emerge as a real world sports activities hub metropolis by sports activities diplomacy.”
