Australian fashion designer Yeojin Bae will be announced as one of the Australian Pavilion 2012 Goodwill Ambassadors at the Sydney Opera House this week.
Minister for Trade Dr Craig Emerson will officially confirm her ambassadorship at a special reception on Thursday, March 29.
Bae will join Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe, model Jess Gomes, singer Jessica Maubouy and Socceroos player Sasa Ognenovski as Goodwill Ambassadors for the Australian Pavilion.
The Korean-born will also officially announce and award the winner of the Australian Pavilion uniform competition at the event.
The Australian Government’s Yeosu Secretariat recently ran a competition which called on fashion designers to design their own, unique Australian fabric design.
Bae will crown NSW’s Cherise Wakeley as the winner.
Wakeley's winning fabric design will be used to manufacture the Australian Pavilion attendants’ official uniforms.
The attendants will have a key role at the Yeosu Expo in South Korea, greeting visitors and being the public face of the Australian Pavilion and Australia.
As well as having her fabric design displayed to some eight million delegates at the event, Cherise will receive return flights to Yeosu, three night's accommodation and some $2000 spending money.
Held from 12 May – 12 August in South Korea, Yeosu 2012 will have focus on balancing the environmental preservation of coastal areas with economic development.