The World Hydrogen Expo 2025 opened today at KINTEX with a ceremony underscoring Korea’s intent to position hydrogen within its broader industrial and mobility strategy.
Remarks from Jae-Hong Kim, president of the Korea Hydrogen Association, and Nam-Hoon Kang, president of the Korea Automobile and Mobility Association, framed the event around accelerating commercialization rather than reiterating long-term aspirations.
Running from December 4 to 7, the expo merges conference and exhibition programming into a single platform designed to link policy direction with market formation. This structure reflects growing consensus that fragmented pilot-stage activity will not translate into scale without coordinated regulatory and financial mechanisms. More than 100 speakers and roughly 200 global industry figures are participating, offering comparative perspectives from hydrogen-importing and exporting countries.
A substantial portion of the event focuses on business matchmaking, reflecting industry insistence that hydrogen scale-up ultimately depends on commercially viable offtake rather than demonstration-level enthusiasm. The H2 Business Partnership Fair brings 36 international buyers from nine countries into structured consultations with more than 80 Korean technology suppliers. Participants represent markets such as Australia, South Africa, Spain, and Canada, regions evaluating hydrogen for industrial feedstocks, export supply chains, or mobility applications.
