On Friday, December 6, 2019, IFEZ held the 8th Asian Pain Symposium at Songdo Convensia. The symposium is a leading international academic conference on pain research in Asia, bringing together pain societies and experts from China, Japan, Korea, and the Americas to share the latest research findings and professional knowledge. Renowned scholars and medical professionals participated, including Xu Zhang, Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Jianguo G. Gu, Professor at the University of Alabama School of Medicine; and Makoto Tominaga, Professor at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences.