Congress Organizers:
World Association Sleep Medicine Foundation
3270 19th St. NW Suite 110
Rochester, MN 55901 USA
TEL. +1-507-316-0084 FAX. +1-877-659-0760
Email. info@wasmonline.org

Local Organizing Committee
Suite 325 G-five Central Plaza
Seochojungang-ro 24 gil, Seoul 137-070, Korea
TEL. +82-2-3476-7700 FAX. +82-2-3476-8800
Email. wasm2015@koconex.com

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CONTENTS
Welcome Message …………………………………...………………….. 2
Committee ………………………………………………...……………... 3
Congress Overview ………………………………………………...…...... 5
Program at a Glance ………..……………………………………...……. 5
Congress Venue ………..……………………………………...……...…. 6
Important Dates ………..…..……………………………………...……. 6
Scientific Program …..…..…………………………………..……………. 7
Accommodation …..…..…………………………………..……..…….…. 13
Tour Program …..…..…………………………………..……..…………. 14
About Korea …..…..…………………………………..……..…………... 16
Useful Information …..….……………………..……..…………………... 17
Registration Form …..….……………………..……..…………………... 18

Welcome Message
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
On behalf of the WASM program committee and the host Korean Society of Sleep Medicine, it
is our great honor and pleasure to invite you to the 6th World Congress on Sleep Medicine
which will be held March 21 -25, 2015 at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center inSeoul, Korea.
The 6th World Congress on Sleep Medicine will provide participants from around the world
unmatched opportunities to pursue continuing education, to learn about recent advances inclinical sleep medicine and the up-to-date clinical and basic research techniques, and to
exchange research activities, scientific ideas and experiences in Sleep Medicine.
Seoul is the political, economic, social and cultural center of Korea and has served as its
capital city for over 700 years. Participants of the 6th World Congress on Sleep Medicine aresure to enjoy this fascinating and historic city which embodies both modern and traditional
Korea.
We hope that you will join us for this important event and look forward to welcoming you soon
to Seoul!

Richard Allen

Seung Bong Hong

Christian Guilleminault

Jung Hie Lee

President
WASM

Co-ChairProgram Committee
WASM2015

Co-ChairProgram Committee
WASM2015

Chair
Local Organizing Committee
WASM2015

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Program Committee
Co-Chair: Christian Guilleminault
Co-Chair: Seung Bong Hong
Richard Allen

Max Hirshkowitz

Seung Chul Hong

Jung Hie LeeCharles Morin

Allan O’Bryan

Chol Shin

Virend Somers

Claudia Trenkwalder

Chang-Ho Yun

International Scientific Committee
Torbjorn Akerstedt

Luigi Ferini-Strambi

Chia Mo Lin

Charles Samuels

Richard Allen

Raffaele Ferri

Zhang Xi Long

Julia Santin

Sonia Ancoli-Israel

Arturo Garay

Pierre-Herve Luppi

Josee Savard

Monica Andersen

Diego Garcia-Borreguero

Ignatus Mark

Chol ShinJean Askenasy

Daniel Goh

Geert Mayer

Garima Shukla

Najib Ayas

Nadia Gosselin

Soichiro Miyazaki

Michael Smith

Ahmed BaHammam

Reut Gruber

Jaques Montplaisier

Karel Sonka

Ferran Barbe

Christian Guilleminault

Charles Morin

Jagdish Chander Suri

Celyne BastienGeorgios Hadjigeoriou

Hiroshi Nakamura

Eva Svanborg

Michel Billiard

Iris Haimov

Sona Nevsimalova

Nana Tachibana

Diane Boivin

Jan Hedner

F. Javier Nieto

Mehdi Tafti

Oliviero Bruni

Raphael Heinzer

Judith Owens

Rimawati Tedjasukmana

Antje Buettner-Teleaga

Max Hirshkowitz

Sylvia Paez

Robert Thomas

Ninghung Chen

Birgit Hogl

Teresa Paiva

Claudia Trenkwalder

Sudhansu Chokroverty

Seung Bong Hong

Eleftherios Papathanasiou

Manjari Tripathi

Valerie Cochen De Cock

Seung Chul Hong

Liborio Parrino

Sergio Tufik

Kinberly Cote

Yuichi Inoue

Thomas Penzel

Eus Van Someren

Antonio Culebras

Poul Jennum

Jean-Louis Pepin

Marco Venegas

Yves Dauvilliers

Sharon Keenan

Pierre Philip

Shelly Weiss

Joseph De Koninck

Jun Kohyama

Claudio Podesta

Yun-Kwok Wing

Luis de Lecea

Vijaya Krishnan

Aroonwan Preutthipan

Juliane Winkelmann

Tayard Desudchit

Jamie Lam

F. Javier Puertas Cuesta

Ye Jing Ying

Tang Xiang Dong

Gerrit Lammers

Maria-Antonia Quera-Salva

Phyllis Zee

Helen Driver

Gilles Lavigne

Albert Rafanan

Marco Zucconi

Colin Espie

Lena Leissner

Dieter Riemann

Han Fang

Huang Zhi Li

Leon Rosenthal

National Organizing Committee
Jin-Young Choi

Jee Hyun Kim

Jun Hie Lee

Won Chul Shin

Soo Jeon Choi

Myung-Rip Kim

Sang Ahm Lee

In-Young Yoon

Jin-Woo Chung

Se Joong Kim

Seung Hoon Lee

Ho-Kee Yum

Yoo-Sam Chung

Sung Wan Kim

Chan-Soon Park

Chang-Ho Yun

Seung Bong Hong

Tae-Won Kim

Chae-Seo Rhee

Seung Chul Hong

Hyang Woon Lee

Chol Shin

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Technologist Committee
Sharon Keenan

Simone de Lacy

Jee Hyun Kim

Jinkwan Kim

Min Sung Kim

Course Co-Chair Committee
Robert Thomas

Chang-Ho Yun

Surgeon Committee
Marc Blumen

Sung Wan Kim

Song Tar Toh

Julio Cifuentes

Kasey Li

Jingying Ye

Jin-Woo Chung

Cheng-Hui Lin

Christian Guilleminault

Mario Fabiani

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Congress Overview
Title

6th World Congress on Sleep Medicine

PeriodMarch 21 (Sat) ~ 25 (Wed), 2015

Location

COEX Convention and Exhibition Center, Seoul, Korea

Organized byWorld Association of Sleep Medicine
Korean Society of Sleep Medicine

Official Language

EnglishWebsitewww.waasmcongress.com

Program at a Glance

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Congress Venue
COEX is Korea’s top event venue and hashelped to earn Seoul a ranking in the top
ten major international convention cities by
the International Congress and Convention
Association (ICCA).
The center itself is four-floor meetings
venue with over 450,000㎡ of total floor
space. Over 200 exhibitions and 2,000
conferences are held each year
at COEX including the successfully held
G20 Summit in 2010 and 2012 Seoul
Nuclear Security Summit.

▶ 51 Dividable Meeting Rooms▶ 4 Multi-purpose Exhibition Halls▶ 36,007㎡ of Exhibition Space▶ State-of-the-art AV Systems▶ 3 Five Star Hotels▶ 200 Stores and over 100 Restaurants▶ Direct Access to Seoul Subway▶ Direct Bus Service to and fromIncheon International Airport▶ Eco-friendly ‘Green’ Industry Leader

Important Dates■ Abstract Submission Opens .……...................................................... April 1, 2014
■ Early Registration by …….................................................................. December 31, 2014
■ Abstract Submission by …………...................................................... January 31, 2015
■ Notification of Acceptance ….……...................................................... February 15, 2015
■ Abstract Book Available by …….…..................................................... March 15, 2015
■ Standard Registration by ……........................................................... February 28, 2015

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Scientific Program
KeynoteAllan Pack

Kasey Li

Genetics of Sleep and its
Disorders

Sleep Apnea Surgery

March 23 (Mon), 2015
8am-9amMarch 24 (Tue), 2015
2:30pm-3:30pm

Robert Stickgold

Till Roenneberg

Sleep, Cognition and Learning

Sleep Research in the RealWorld – first steps towards a
Human Sleep Project

March 24 (Tue), 2015
8am-9amMarch 25 (Wed), 2015
8am-9amDanielle Friberg

Yun-Kwok Wing

The evidence foruvulopalatopharyngoplasty,
how effective and safe is it totreat OSA patients?

Insomnia from epidemiology
to intervention – what does
the future hold?

March 23 (Mon), 2015
2:30pm-3:30pm

March 25 (Wed), 2015
2:30pm-3:30pm

Emmanuel Mignot

Bradley F. Boeve

Narcolepsy as Auto-Immune
DiseaseMarch 23 (Mon), 2015
2:30pm-3:30pm

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Wayne Hening Memorial Speaker

RBD New Insights

March 25 (Wed), 201512:45pm-2:15pm

Scientific Program
Symposium

S06 Development of Obstruction Site Evaluation
Chair: Song Tar Toh

March 23, Monday
9:00am-10:30am
S01 Does insufficient sleep make us fatter?
Chair: Eve VanCauter

Speaker: Hirotaka Hara
Sookweon Koo
Jeong-Whun Kim
Hsueh-Yu Li
Li-Ang Lee

Speaker: Jean-Phillippe Chaput
Marie-Pierre St-OngeAnders Sjodin
Giovanni Cizza

S02 Advances in brain imaging and CNS
stimulation studies and treatments ofsensory-motor functioning in RLS
Chair: Richard Allen
Speaker: Giovanni Rizzo
Yong Won Cho
Yuping Wang
Rachel Salas
Cornelius Bachmann

S03 Upper Airway Stimulation for Obstructive
Sleep Apnea
Chair: Patrick Strollo Jr
Speaker: Winfried Randerath
B Tucker Woodson
Kingman P Strohl
Patrick Strollo Jr

11:00am-12:30pm
S07 Sleep and the human transcriptome:
from circadian disruption to depression
and OSA
Chair: Simon N Archer
Speaker: Derk-Jan Dijk
Allan Pack
Jun Li
Sina Gharib
Sergio Tufik

S08 Are there precursors for RBD?
Chair: Birgit Högl
Speaker: Bradley Boeve
Claudia TrenkwalderAmbra Stefani
Yuichi Inoue

S09 Optogenetic probing of sleep andwakefulness
Chair: Luis de Lecea
Speaker: Hee-Sup Shin

S04 New insights into the neural correlates
of insomnia
Chair: Seung Bong Hong
Speaker: Thien Thanh Dang-Vu
Eus VanSomeren
Eunyeon Joo
Sooyeon Suh
Kai Spiegelhalder

S05 Basic Science
Chair: Christian Guilleminault
Speaker: TBD

Sebastian Royer
Antoine Adamantidis
John Peever

S10 OPEN
S11 Familial fatal insomnia : World Wide
Experience
Chair: Tayard Desudchit
Speaker: Inga Zerr
Xiao-Ping Dong
Zhan SQ
Tayard Desudchit

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Scientific Program
Symposium
S12 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in
Obstructive Sleep Apneics
Chair: Ning-Hung Chen
Speaker: Peter Cistulli
Honda Hsiao
Sam SP Hsu
Cheng-Hui Lin

S17 Oral facial growth, children, sleep
disordered breathing- and role of dental
specialists in SDB prevention
Chair: Micelle Hervy
Speaker: Cheng-Hui Lin
Christian Guilleminault
Hiroko Tsuda
Micelle Hervy

5:30pm-7:00pm

4:00pm-5:30pm
S18 Psychiatric and Sleep
S13 Neuroimaging update in sleep and sleep
disorders
Chair: Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Seung Bong Hong
Speaker: Philippe Peigneux
Luigi Ferini-Strambi
Seung Bong Hong
Masayuki Miyamoto

S14 Sleep, dream consciousness andpsychosis
Chair: Armando D’Agostino
Speaker: Ursula Voss
Yukiyasu Kamitani
Simone Cavallotti
Simone Sarasso
Andrew Thompson

S15 Age-related sleep disturbance: Change
in circadian rhythm and clinicalimplications
Chair: Phillis Zee, Jung Hie Lee
Speaker: Phillis Zee
Jeanne F Duffy
Jung Hie Lee
Karine Scheuermaier
Sonia Ancoli-Israel

Chair: Seung Chul Hong
Speaker: TBD

S19 New Technologies for sleep apnea
monitoring
Chair: Thomas Penzel
Speaker: Thomas Penzel
Toshiaki Shiomi
Ludger Grote
Robert Poirrier
Brigitte Fauroux

S20 Sleep and Cancer
Chair: Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Speaker: TBD

S21 Optimal diagnosis and management for
Pediatric OSA as ENT clinician
Chair: Young Min Ahn
Speaker: Chan-Soon Park
Yoo-Sam Chung
Seung Hoon Lee
Hyun Jun Kim
Yu-shu Huang

March 24, Tuesday
9:00am-10:30am

S16 J‐shaped or U‐shaped association?
New perspectives about the effect of
sleep in the risk of stroke
Chair: Monica Levy Anderson

S22 Non pharmacological approaches in the
management of Insomnia/Trends in
Insomnia

Speaker: Jong Sung Kim

Chair: Seung Bong Hong

Claudio L. Bassetti
Lenise Jihe Kim
Fernando Morgadinho Coelho
Sergio Tufik
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Speaker: Seung Bong Hong
Jung Hie Lee
Iris Haimov
Manjari Tripathi
DK Cheuk

Scientific Program
S23 Sleep duration and sleeping habits

S29 H1N1 and Narcolepsy

Chair: Maurice M. Ohayon

Chair: Emmanuel Mignot

Speaker: Maurice M. Ohayon

Speaker: Emmanuel Mignot

Seung Chul HongYun Kwok Wing
Dalva Poyares
Max Hirshkowitz

S24 Cognition, sleep and sleep-disorderedbreathing in children
Chair: Christian Guilleminault, Yu-shu Huang
Speaker: Yu-shu Huang
Sarah Biggs
Barbara Galland
Damien Leger

S25 Genetics of Sleep Disorders
Chair: Philip Gehrman
Speaker: Juliane Winkelmann
Chang-Ho Yun
Lyle Palmer
Philip Gehrman

Fang Han
Markku Partinen
Outi Vaarala
Hanna Ollila

S30 Iron, Hypoxia, Dopamine: A new modelof interconnecting pathways to restlesslegs syndrome (Willis Ekbom Disease)
Chair: Richard Allen
Speaker: Christopher J. Earley
James Connor
Olli Polo
Richard Allen

S31 Tramantic Brain Injury
Chair: Christine Won
Speaker: TBD

S32 OPEN
4:00pm-5:30pm

S26 OPEN
S27 Modification and Limitation of Tonguebase Surgery
Chair: Yoo-Sam Chung
Speaker: Sung Wan Kim
Hsin-Ching Lin
Evert Hamans

11:00am-12:30pm
S28 Bridges between basic neuroscienceand clinical sleep medicine
Chair: Hyang Woon Lee
Speaker: Hyang Woon Lee
Ritchie Brown
Jee Hyun Choi
Simone Sarasso
Jee Hoon Roh

S33 Sex differences in circadian timing
systems: implications for sleep andpsychological health
Chair: Diane B. Boivin, Jeanne F Duffy
Speaker: Rae Silver
Jeanne F Duffy
Diane B. Boivin
Jung Hie Lee
Barbara L. ParryS34 Sleep disturbance and Sleep disorderedbreathing during Pregnancy
Chair: Visasiri Tantrakul
Speaker: Michele Okun
Ghada Bourjeily
Christian Guilleminault

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Scientific Program
Symposium
S35 Fitness to Drive
Chair: Philip Pierre
Speaker: Markku Partinen
Anna Anund
Philip Pierre
Vakulin Andrew
Quera Salva Ma

S42 Surgical Treatments in OSA
Chair: Nestor Montesdeoca
Speaker: Julio Cifuentes
Claudio Vicini
Christopher Viozzi

March 24, Tuesday
9:00am-10:30am

S37 Sleep and Epilepsy

S43 Role of adenosine and dopamine in thebasal ganglia for control of sleep andwakefulness

Chair: TBD

Chair: Yoshihiro Urade

Speaker: TBD

Speaker: Yoshihiro Urade

S36 Young Investigator 1

S38 Sleep-disordered breathing in dentistry
Chair: Gilles Lavigne
Speaker: Gilles LavignePeter Cistulli
Jin Woo Chung
Jin Young Choi

Michael Lazarus
Zhi-Li Huang
Jun LuJiang-Fan Chen

S44 The Characteristics of Asian narcolepsy
patients
Chair: Fang Han

5:30pm-7:00pm
S39 Night Eating Syndrome: Sleeping
disorder, eating disorder or separate
diagnostic entity?
Chair: Orna Tzischinsky
Speaker: Pier Vinai
Howell Michael
Latzer Yael
Orna Tzischinsky

S40 Parasomnias Violence and Sleep
Chair: TBD
Speaker: TBD

Speaker: Makoto Honda
Takashi Kanbayashi
Seung Chul Hong
Yu Shu Huang
Fang Han

S45 Adaptive Servoventilation and Central
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Chair: Shahrokh Javaheri
Speaker: Shahrokh Javaheri
Michelle Cao
Timothy Morgenthaler
Shahrokh Javaheri
Patrick Levy

S41 Sleep and Pain: Neurobiology, Placebo
Effect, Traumatic Brain Injury andManagement

S46 Advances in experimental studies of
RLS: neurophysiological andneuropharmacological aspects

Chair: Gilles Lavigne

Chair: Raffaele Ferri

Speaker: Helen Bastugi

Speaker: Imad Ghorayeb

Samar Khoury
Florian Chouchou
Marco Zucconi
Michael Smith

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Giuseppe Lanza
Dirk Czesnik
Walter Paulus

Scientific Program
11:00am-12:30pm

4:00pm-5:30pm

S47 Racial & cross cultural difference insleep disorders -Focusing on Asianethnicity-

S52 Cross-Cultural Differences in Sleep inYoung Children

Chair: Yun Kwok Wing, Yuichi Inoue
Speaker: Ning-Hung Chen
Joyce SP Lam
Fang Han
Yuichi Inoue

S48 Sleep extremes: why does the average
population not explain all of our researchquestions?
Chair: Sergio Tufik
Speaker: Chol Shin
Lenise Jihe Kim
Monica Levy Andersen
Leila Kheirandish-Gozal

S49 Sleep and Cognition: Mechanisms,
Prediction and Intervention
Chair: Michael Chee
Speaker: Susanne Diekelmann
Julien Doyon
Michael Chee
Derk-Jan Dijk

Chair: Young-Min Anh, Albert Li
Speaker: Arthur Teng
Daniel Goh
Mahesh B Ramamurthy
Jodi Mindell

S53 The craniofacial structure of sleep
apnea syndrome
Chair: Ning-Hung Chen
Speaker: Makoto SatohShih-Wei Lin
Kate Sutherland
Tzu-I Tseng

S54 The role of sleep and insomnia in stress,
emotion regulation and psychiatric
symptoms
Chair: Eus VanSomeren
Speaker: Eus VanSomeren
Gina Poe
Daniel J. Buysse
Jihui Zhang

S55 Young Investigator 2

S50 Sleep,Sleep disorders and chronic
kidney disease

5:30pm-7:00pm

Chair: Hiroshi Nakamura, Ho Jun Chin

S56 The Natural History of Insomnia

Speaker: Lin Yu-sheng

Chair: Charles Morin

Ho Jun Chin
Kunitoshi Iseki
Shigefumi Koike

S51 Kleine-Levin syndrome: new informationfrom large series

Speaker: Jason Ellis
Yun Kwok Wing
Maurice Ohayon
Borge Sivertsen

Chair: Isabelle Arnulf

S57 REM sleep behavior disorder-clinicalimplications beyond neurodegeneration

Speaker: Isabelle Arnulf

Chair: Garima Shukla

Emmanuel Mignot
Fang Han
Yu Shu Huang
Geert Mayer

Speaker: Nana Tachibana
Garima Shukla
In-Young Yoon
Federica Provini

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Accommodation
How to Book a RoomWASM2015 participants are entitled to special hotel rates available through the official housing
bureau. Reservations can be made online on a first-come, first-served basis. Please do notcontact the hotels directly. The housing bureau will be available for all your hotel reservationinquiries or group reservation.
Choose from different
accommodation options tosuit your budget

Make a reservation atwww.wasmcongress.com

Check the congress
website for more details
and updates

Congress Hotels
Please visit the congress website www.wasmcongress.com for more detailed information about
the congress hotels.
* Currency: Korean Won(KRW)
Hotel Name

Room
Type

Price

Breakfast

Time to Venue

VAT &
SVC

31,0002 min. on foot(Connected to
COEX)

21%

31,0002 min. on foot(Connected to
COEX)

21%

279,500
Superior(Non-refundable)(Single Occupancy)

299,500

Intercontinental
Seoul COEX★★★★★

309,500
Superior(Non-refundable)(Double Occupancy)

329,500
Ramada Seoul★★★★

Superior Room

150,000

18,000

15 min on foot,5 min. by car21%

Mercure Seoul Ambassador
Gangnam Sodowe★★★★

Standard

198,000

19,000

10 min. by car

10%

Ibis Ambassador
Seoul Gangnam★★★

Standard

165,000

19,000

10 min. by car

10%

Seoul Residence★★

Double Studio

104,000

5,000

10 min on foot21%

Contact Information
Local Organizing Committee
27, Seochojungang-ro-24-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-070, Korea
Tel: +82-2-3476-7700
FAX: +82-2-3476-8800
Email: wasm2015@koconex.com

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Tour Program
WASM2015 offers an exciting tour program which includes daily tours and pre/post congress
tours. All tours are designed to give participants an authentic Korean experience, bringing
visitors face to face with Korea’s natural beauty, abundant historical sites and modern
amenities. Congress participants are encouraged to take the opportunity to explore the real
Korea through various experiences offered by the tour program. The following program is
tentative and subject to change without notice.

Half/Full Day Tours
Seoul Tower and Changdeokgung Palace
This tour takes participants to two of Seoul’s most well-known landmarks.
Constructed atop the famous Mt. Namsan located almost directly in theheart of Seoul, the 236 meter high Seoul Tower was opened to the public
in 1980 and was quickly recognized for its unparalleled panoramic viewsof the city. Changdeokgung Palace was the principal palac and was
designated a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in December 1997.

Templelife at Jinkwansa Temple
Templelife is a 2 to 4 hour long temple program designed to give
participants a better understanding of Korean Buddhism and the life ofmonks th rough first-hand experience. The main activities include a tourof the temple, Chamseon (zen meditation) and Dado (tea ceremony).

DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), Hyeri Art Village and Seoul
World Cup StadiumThis trip to the last remaining relic of the Cold War includes a tour throughthe famed 3rd tunnel which was constructed by North Koreans to infiltrate
the South. Visitors will also have an opportunity to watch North Koreansgoing about their daily lives through a telescope at Dora Observatory. The
tour will continue to the Hyeri Art Village following a final stop, which willbring participants to the Seoul World Cup Stadium, the site of the Opening
Ceremony and Opening Game of the 2002 FIFA World Cup jointly hosted
by Korea and Japan.

Korean Folk Village and Icheon Ceramic Village
Minsokcheon, the Korean Folk Village is an open-air folk museum andinternational tourist attraction for both Korean and foreign visitors. It is thehome of the true Korean heritage where visitors can experience theauthentic atmosphere with over 260 traditional houses reminiscent of thelate Joseon Dynasty. At Icheon Ceramic Village, participants canexperience making of traditional Korean ceramics.

Gyeongbokgung Palace, Insadong Antique Street,
Taekwondo Performance and Seoul Museum of History
Gyeongbokgung Palace is the most comprehensive and grandest of thefive palaces of the Joseon Dynasty. Along the streets of Insa-dong, visitors
are lured by hundreds of shops brimming with traditional ink paintings,
calligraphic works, antique furniture, curios, handicrafts, ceramics, andmodern style traditional dresses. Experience Taekwondo performance Seoul City offers Taekwondo programs for international tourists. Visitors
can watch a performance before taking part in the classes. Seoul Museumof History - reflects on the history and traditional culture of Seoul.

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Tour Program
Han River Dinner Cruise (Evening)
A symbol of Seoul, the Han River runs through Seoul east to west, with an average
depth of 2.5m and width of 175m. The river is crossed by 22 bridges and there are
excursion boats plying between Yeouido and Jamsil.

Pre / Post Congress Tours
Woljeongsa Temple Stay
At Woljeongsa, participants will have a chance to experience Korean Buddhist
traditional culture and the practice of Seon Meditation. This 24-hour overnightprogram will allow participants to relax, reflect and revitalize themselves. Temple
stays also provide opportunities to partake in various traditional practices andceremonies. Participants can find their “true selves” amidst the harmony of natureduring the temple stay.

Jeju Island
Just an hour’s flight south of Seoul, Jeju Island’s temperate climate, beautiful
natural scenery, sparkling beaches and abundance of leisure activities make it oneof the most popular destinations for Koreans as well as visitors from other parts of
the world.

Jeju Island Golf OutingThis tour will include a golf outing at one of Jeju Island’s famous courses in addition
to stops at other scenic locations.

Gyeongju
The tour will begin with Bulguksa, one of Koreas best known temples and atestimony to both the skill of Silla architects and the depth of Buddhist faith at thetime. The Gyeongju National Museum, a place of compelling interest, preserves
much of the Silla heritage, including magnificent gold crowns, pottery, Buddhist
artifacts, and stone sculptures. The museum also houses the Divine Bell of King
Seongdeok the Great, also referred to as the legendary Emille Bell, one of Asia’s
largest and most resonant bells - nineteen tons of bronze standing eleven feet high.
Yangdong Folk Village is Korea’s largest traditional village, showcasing the
traditional culture of the Joseon Dynasty and the beautiful natural surroundings.

Seorak Mountain
Seoraksan (Mountain), the third highest mountain in South Korea, is one of themost beloved sites for Koreans. The tour will start with a visit to the Chamsori
Sound Museum which houses a collection of 4,000 sound machines. Seorak
Waterpia is one of Korea's largest theme parks offering a wide variety of outdoor
leisure activities and hot spring facilities. The tour to Seorak Mountain also includes
stops at Goseong Unification Observatory and Woljeonsa temple stay. (Refer totemple stay above)

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About Korea
Seoul, the Soul of Asia
Seoul, a historic city which has served as the capital of Korea for over 600 years, promises toprovide you with a unique and unforgettable experience. As the backdrop for the “Miracle on
the Han River”, Seoul’s amazing transformation has resulted in a dynamic city which blends
ancient Korean heritage with modern style and innovation. Despite being labeled the “Techcapital of the world”, Seoul is home to a number of cultural heritage sites where visitors canobserve authentic Korean traditional architecture and feel what life was like centuries ago, in
addition to countless landmarks, museums, parks and other attractions.
Congress attendees from around the world unmistakably fall in love with this city that is one ofmillennial Asia’s most exciting destinations.

Korean TV Show
The Korean TV Dramas are seducing the world.
“My Love from the Star”, a romantic comedy of a famous actress and her alien boyfriend who
landed on Earth four-hundred-years ago. Another smash hit in world was “The Heirs”, based inSeoul, a high teen romance story of the privileged teenager as well as urban rich. Both dramas
are captivating audiences worldwide with refreshing stories and contents.
These Korean TV dramas and other related contents are sweeping beyond Asia and creating
new trends around the world.

K-Pop
In the last few years, the Korean pop music and performance also have been rolling aroundthe world. Psy, Girls’generation, Super Junior, SHNee, 2PM and Bigbang are currently some of
the more popular groups. K-pop has captured the international imagination with refreshing newstyles, choreography, music and overall dazzle. Beginning with k-pop and dramas that became
popular in Southeast Asia, the related various contents growing to include sports, food andfashion in Europe and Americas as well.

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Useful Information
Language
The official language of Korea is Korean, but English is spoken at most hotels, restaurants,
shops and in all the main tourist sites. All public transportation signs and information are also
printed in English.

Weather
The climate of Korea is characterized by four distinct seasons; spring, summer, fall, and winter.
Seoul in early March is in the beginning of spring and the average temperature is 7.9°C(46.22°F).
Time Zone
Korean time is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+9)

Business Hours
Government office hours are usually from 9:00 to 18:00 on weekdays and closed on weekends.
Banks are open from 9:00 to 16:00 on weekdays and closed on Saturdays and Sundays. Moststores are open every day from 10:30 to 20:00, including Sundays.
Currency & Exchange
The Standard unit of currency in Korea is the Korean Won (KRW). Currency can be exchanged
at most banks and International Airports by displaying your passport. As of August 28, 2014,
the exchange rate is approximately USD 1 to KRW 1,015.
Electricity
The standard electricity supply is 220-volt AC/60 cycles. Most hotels may provide outlet
converters for 110 and 220 volts.

Useful Websites
Korea Tourism Organization
Gateway to Korea
Seoul Convention & Visitors Bureau
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Visit Seoul
Korea Immigration Service
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Incheon International Airport

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http://kto.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/index.jsp
http://www.korea.net
http://www.miceseoul.com
http://english.seoul.go.kr
http://www.visitseoul.net
http://www.immigration.go.kr/indeximmeng.html
http://www.mofat.go.kr/english/visa/apply/index.jsp
http://www.airport.or.kr