On April 9, the 500th day until the next global skills Competition – WorldSkills Kazan 2019 – the WorldSkills Flag Relay reaches Seoul in Korea. During the ceremony at Seoul Technical High School the WorldSkills Competitions in Busan (1978) and Seoul (2001) is remembered, and patches from these Competitions are added to the WorldSkills Flag.

The event in Korea at the Closing Ceremony of Regional Skills Competition Korea is the fifth stop of the international section of the Flag Relay. San-Quei Lin, Vice President for Special Affairs in WorldSkills International, Kim Dong-Man, President of WorldSkills Korea, and Marat Zakirov, Deputy Director General of the WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Organizing Committee take part in the Flag Relay Ceremony.