Kim, Tae-Hwan Governor Jeju Province

Dear IFBB President Dr. Rafael Santonja of the International Federation of BodyBuilding and Fitness (IFBB) and all the bodybuilding and fitness fans from around the world!

I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you for allowing us to host the "61st IFBB Men's World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships and IFBB International Congress" in 2007 in Jeju - the island of world peace - along with everyone living in Jeju Island and my deepest gratitude to IFBB officials and bodybuilding enthusiasts in Korea and elsewhere for proactively supporting and encouraging us to date.

Jeju is emerging as a new global favorite for all sports fans across the world in the 21st century where your dreams come true.

Everyone in Jeju Island and I will honor our commitment to exerting our best efforts to deserve your recognition that will help the 2007 Jeju Championships go down as the most successful one in the history of the IFBB World Bodybuilding Championships. It is my dearest wish that each and everyone of you will be able to realize your vision and dream in the 2007 World Men’s Bodybuilding Championships Jeju.

I hope with all sincerity that you will remember the 2007 Men’s World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships in Jeju as the source of most profound and unforgettable impression and memory and find in Jeju a path open wide toward world peace.

Jeju - the free global city of peace and prosperity - is a new friend of the youth across the world.

Sincerely,

Kim, Tae-Hwan
Governor of the Special Self-Governing Province of Jeju

August, 2006