Expo 2012

Expo 2012
motto	"Living ocean, living coast"
General
Exhibition space	199 ha
Number of visitors	8,203,956
BIE recognition	Yes
participation
countries	105 countries
Place of issue
place	Yeosu
terrain	New Port Area, Jeollanam-do Coordinates: 34 ° 44 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 127 ° 44 ′ 50.1 ″  E
calendar
opening	May 12, 2012
closure	August 12, 2012
Chronological order
predecessor	Expo 2010
successor	Expo 2015

The world exhibition Expo 2012 took place from May 12th to August 12th 2012 in the coastal city of Yeosu ( South Korea ) under the motto "Living Ocean, Living Coast". A total of 105 nations and 9 international organizations took part in the event.

Surcharge

The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris awarded Yeosu the contract for the Expo 2012 on November 26, 2007. Yeosu successfully prevailed against its competitors Tangier and Wroclaw .

Mascot and logo

Yeony ( 여니 ) and Suny ( 수니 ) were the official mascots of Expo 2012. The names are derived from Yeosu . 여 Yeo means beautiful and pretty , 수 Su means water .

The entire logo expresses the harmony between mother earth, humans and the sea: Yeony and Suny personify a drop of water and plankton , a main food source of the sea and important absorber of carbon dioxide .

The dark blue of Yeonys symbolizes the water of the ocean while the light, red color of Sunys stands for living beings and the earth. The color white stands for the environment in which living things live.

The tentacles should clarify the connection to the visitors. The logo is intended to represent ecology, oceans and the environment in a simplified manner.

The theme song for Expo 2012 was called 바다 가 기억 하는 얘기 Bada-ga Gieokhaneun Yaegi ( Stories the Sea Tells ) and was recorded by the South Korean pop singer and actress IU 아이유 .

Pavilions

• Korean pavilion
• International pavilion
• Themed pavilion
• Digital gallery
• Sky tower
• Marine Biology Pavilion
• Industrial pavilion
• Big-O

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  Sky Tower (with Vox Maris )

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  Big-O

Participating states and organizations

Europe	22nd	Ukraine , Turkey , Azerbaijan , Switzerland , Germany , Spain , Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Romania , Netherlands , Norway , Tajikistan , Belgium , Italy , Denmark , France , Russia , Lithuania , Monaco , Croatia , Armenia , Sweden , Turkmenistan
North and South America	20th	Panama , Guyana , El Salvador , Guatemala , Domingo , Peru , Honduras , Paraguay , Nicaragua , Colombia , Ecuador , USA , Suriname , Argentina , Uruguay , Antigua and Barbuda , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Grenada , Dominica , Mexico
Asia & Oceania	31	Japan , Thailand , Cambodia , Vanuatu , Vietnam , Nepal , China , Solomon Islands , Laos , Maldives , Mongolia , Pakistan , Marshall Islands , India , Fiji , Brunei , East Timor , Samoa , Papua New Guinea , Tuvalu , Sri Lanka , Singapore , Palau , Bangladesh , Indonesia , Nauru , Kiribati , Tonga , Malaysia , Australia , Philippines
Africa	26th	Libya , Egypt , Seychelles , Côte d'Ivoire , Algeria , Angola , Tunisia , Ghana , Nigeria , Mauritania , Tanzania , Mali , Senegal , Burkina Faso , Gabon , Kenya , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Sudan , Uganda , Central African Republic , Guinea , Eritrea , Rwanda , Comoros
middle East	6th	Saudi Arabia , Yemen , Oman , United Arab Emirates , Qatar , Israel
International organizations	10	Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPOC), Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA), Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), United Nations (UN), International Olympic Committee (IOC), Global Environment Facility (GEF), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations World Food Program (WFP), International Maritime Organization (IMO)
total	105 states, 10 organizations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Exhibition 2012, Yeosu, Korea. In: korea.net. Retrieved March 25, 2012 . 

literature

• Progress through technology . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt , Heft 6/2012, pp. 54–57, Verband Deutscher Reeder eV, Hamburg 2012, ISSN  0948-9002

Web links

Commons : Expo 2012  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Expo 2012. Bureau International des Expositions (English). Retrieved March 24, 2017 . 
• Fan page with architectural images from Expo 2012
• Fan page with video collection
• World Exhibition fans
• Promotion video (6:51 min., English)
• Spiegel Online : Eco show for the high-tech country