The Korea Times - Business
Busan loses World Expo 2030 bid
부산, 2030 세계박람회 유치 실패
lose - (집, 재산 모든것) 을 잃다
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo (second from left) shakes hand with Saudi Arabia's unnamed government official after the final presentation during the general assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions on Tuesday. (Yonhap)
Bureau International des Expositions on Tuesday. (Yonhap)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has won the right to host the World Expo in 2030, beating South Korea's port city of Busan, results of the final vote showed on Tuesday.
Riyadh garnered 119 votes out of the 165 as Busan won 29 votes in the first round of voting by members of the Paris-based BIE. Both Busan and Rome in Italy -- with 17 votes -- were knocked out in the first round. No country eligible for voting abstained from a vote, meaning Riyadh won the right with more than two-thirds of the votes in the first round.
"I feel sorry for not meeting the citizens' expectations. I feel grave responsibility," Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told reporters after the ballot.