Some impressions with the Chinese printing delegation visiting South Korea

A seven-member Chinese printing delegation headed by Wu Wenxiang, chairman of the China Printing Technology Association, visited South Korea from August 24 to September 1, 2000 in response to the invitation of the president of the Korean Printing Culture Association, Park Chung-Ie. Received a warm and friendly reception from the Korean Printing Culture Association, printing associations, and print industry colleagues.

The delegation paid a visit to the Korea Printing Culture Association and local associations such as Seoul and Busan. It also visited some representative printing and printing related companies in South Korea; visited the 12th International Exhibition on Printing Industry Equipment held in Korea by the Korea Printing Culture Association. Cheongju Ancient Printing Museum. During the visit, China and South Korea also held a special "Han-China Printing and Cultural Exchange Conference". After a sincere, frank and friendly conversation, they signed the "Minutes of the China Printing Technology Association and the Daehan Printing Culture Association."

During the brief visit, the delegation members left a deep impression on the Korean printing industry.

1. South Korea adopts a combination of the government and the market, and implements macro management and effective support for the printing industry through social organizations. The prestige, position, and role of community organizations are obvious. The printed and public-welfare printing services that the Korean government pays for are distributed to SMEs through societies through tenders, and the community is equivalent to an order center. The government stipulates that the club can charge 2% of the fee (this practice also has some drawbacks and may be cancelled in the future). With this provision alone, the Seoul Local Association formed a considerable amount of RMB 60 million in assets, so the association has the strength to engage in product development, technical exchanges, technical training and other activities.

The printing of textbooks in Korea is also directly administered by the government, including confirmation of the printing price. The Korean Textbook Co., Ltd. that we visited is a fixed-point company that has become a textbook publisher by means of bidding. The company was originally a state-owned enterprise, and there were also drawbacks such as high costs and inefficiencies. The Korean government then proceeded with the transfer of property rights, sold the original state-owned assets to private companies and became a joint-stock enterprise, producing 140 million copies annually. More than 10 billion yuan (including a small amount of commercial printing, electronic publishing and CD-ROM production). The company's equipment for printing textbooks sucks six sets of eight-color commercial rubber tires, two sets of full-sheet and four-color folio flat sheet offset presses, and three sets of glue-binding linkage lines.

2. The unique form of the Korea Printing Research Institute and its government and business support for the institute. The Daehan Printing Research Institute is a national printing and scientific research institution, and is affiliated with the Korea Printing and Cultural Association. It is also chaired by Park Chung-il, President of the Korea Printing Culture Association, and Hongyou Dong, vice president of the Korea Printing Culture Association, is the Director of the Institute. 3 full-time staff, responsible for business, research, market development three committees. Each professional committee consists of 20 prestigious individuals in the industry. The source of the topic is vertical from the government (mainly the association) and horizontally from various companies. The implementation of the project is led by professional committees and undertaken by the industry and universities. The funds for research and management of the Institute are given by the state and sponsored by the company.

3. There are more than 7,600 printing companies in Korea, employing 150,000 people, including 4,600 in Seoul. Korean printing companies, like other industries, are dominated by private and joint-stock companies, mostly small businesses with less than 10 employees. The largest number of companies is only 1,200. The characteristics of Korean printing companies are new systems, fewer personnel, fine equipment, strict management, high efficiency, and high returns. Taiichi Printing Co., Ltd., which we visited in Ulsan City, is also a state-owned joint-stock company that has been transformed into a private company. It has 27 employees, one Toshiba eight-color rotary press, one Komori half-opening, and one quadruple offset paper offset press each day. Two shifts operate 24 hours a year, with an annual turnover of up to 4 million US dollars. Our domestic counterparts cannot be planned.

4. Both China and South Korea have great complementarity in technology, economy and trade, and their cooperation prospects are promising. South Korea's prepress technology, involving the digital domain, is still the mainstay of foreign technology, but has been able to produce CTP output. They can produce two-color offset presses, but more than four-color single-sheet and web presses are imported from Europe and Japan. Postpress equipment is relatively advanced. Some of the major consumable materials, such as paper and ink, have an advantage in South Korea, and the plates (including CTPs) are mostly dependent on foreign countries. The printing industry in China and South Korea has not been in contact for a long time. The current status of the two countries is not well understood. Like the biennial South Korea's Twelfth International Exhibition on Printing Materials and Equipment, although there are 21 countries participating, it is like Beiren and Shanghai chartered machines. China's printing equipment large enterprises do not know. The president of the Korean Printing Culture Association, Park Chung-Ion, has expressed many times that he wants to develop cooperation and exchanges and economic and trade relations between the Korean and Chinese printing circles. He is particularly optimistic about Shanghai and has high hopes.

5. South Korea attaches great importance to the protection and development of printed cultural relics, and pays attention to national and adolescent patriotic education. The Qingzhou Ancient Printing Museum, which we visited, has a building area of ​​nearly 5,000 square meters. It is a government-funded extension of about 30 million yuan, and has a very high taste. The exhibition area adopts three-dimensional stereoscopic projection technology, especially for metal movable type production. Modern techniques such as sound, light, and electricity are used to make metal movable type, typesetting, printing, and proofreading processes into life-size simulation robots with expressions, languages, and gestures. It gives people a feeling of experience. This has many lessons for our country's printing museum.

China and South Korea have a lot of consensus on trans-century printing. The two sides also hope to further strengthen cooperation and exchanges. The ROK expressed support for and actively participated in the 7th World Printing Conference to be held in Beijing, China next May, forming the Chinese and Korean printing industry The beginning of friendly cooperation in the new century.

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