SIMTOS secretariat, Korea Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (KOMMA) has been preparing SIMTOS 2020 in close cooperation with KINTEX and public health authorities, monitoring real-time updates of COVID-19 carefully to prevent the spread of the virus and host the show postponed to October 2020.
As you might know, it would be extremely hard to end COVID19 pandemic. As of July 20th, more than 14 million people have been infected and about 0.6 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19. Recently, the spread of COVID-19 occurs again in Korea. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), The number of new daily infections was in the 50s in Korea. Therefore, The Korean government strongly recommended that any group events should not be hosted.
Considering health and business of exhibitors, attendees, and official contractors as top priority, it is not possible to host SIMTOS which the most attendees visit in Korea. Therefore, we decided to cancel SIMTOS 2020 scheduled for Oct. 6~9, 2020 eventually.
We would like to appreciate everyone for your continuous supports and interest of to SIMTOS and for understanding. Even though the cancellation of SIMTOS causes a lot of damage and cost, we are going to encourage exhibitors to overcome the difficult time.
SIMTOS will be coming back in 2022 as the leading manufacturing technology show in Korea to the new leap forward of manufacturing industry.
We look forward to seeing you again in SIMTOS 2022
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