Gyeongju Hwabaek International Convention Center The APEC South Korea 2025 will be the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum of its leaders that will be held in November 2025.

In March 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs formed the 2025 APEC Summit Host City Selection Committee and began the process of selecting the host city in earnest.

[2] At the second meeting of the 2025 APEC Summit Host City Selection Committee held in the same month, the applications from each local government were reviewed, and Gyeongju, Incheon, and Jeju Province were finally selected as candidate cities.

In August, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs APEC Preparatory Planning Team, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yul, visited Gyeongju and inspected key facilities to be used during the summit.

The Gyeongju Hwabaek International Convention Center will be used as the main conference hall.