{
  "id": 15575851,
  "title": "Jinju forum returns for 4th straight year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/jinju-forum-returns-for-4th-straight-year",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-19T07:17:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/20261019/jinju-forum-returns-for-4th-straight-year"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "JINJU, South Gyeongsang Province - The Jinju International Forum on Entrepreneurship convened for its fourth annual gathering on Monday, uniting business leaders, scholars, policymakers, and international delegates to examine how entrepreneurship can navigate global uncertainty and rapid digital transformation. The theme for the 2026 forum, \"An Era of Global Uncertainty and Digital Transformation: What Is the Role of Entrepreneurship?\", underscores its focus on entrepreneurship's role in fostering innovation, promoting sustainable prosperity, and addressing challenges such as technological gaps, demographic shifts, and climate change. Jinju Mayor Jo Kyoo-il opened the event, emphasizing the city's entrepreneurial legacy rooted in values of respect for people, community responsibility, and innovation, which offer vital lessons for contemporary technological and economic shifts. Jinju's ties to the entrepreneurial history of prominent Korean conglomerates like LG, GS, Samsung, and Hyosung, whose founders played pivotal roles in Korea's economic resurgence, were also highlighted during the opening ceremony.",
  "summary": "JINJU, South Gyeongsang Province — The Jinju International Forum on Entrepreneurship opened Monday for its fourth consecutive year, bringing together business leaders, scholars, policymakers and international representatives to explore how entrepreneurship can address global uncertainty and rapid digital transformation. Held under the theme “An Era of Global Uncertainty and Digital…",
  "key_points": [
    "Jinju International Forum on Entrepreneurship held for fourth consecutive year",
    "Forum 2026 theme: \"An Era of Global Uncertainty and Digital Transformation\"",
    "Jinju Mayor Jo Kyoo-il emphasized city's entrepreneurial legacy"
  ],
  "editors_take": "By centering on digital transformation and global instability, the forum positions Jinju as a strategic hub for leveraging its historical industrial legacy to address modern economic and technological shifts.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}