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World Food Programme executive director Josette Sheeran told the BBC food was being brought in by road and air, and bought locally, but supplies were under "deep stress".
BBC: Libya unrest: Aid crisis grows on Tunisia border
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"The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century, " said United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner.
BBC: 'Long-term consequences' of decline in bee population
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Bae-Yong Lee, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Gun-Soo Kim, Secretary-General of the Expo Organizing Committee, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC, and Taeck-Soo Chun, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO were present at the opening ceremony.
UNESCO: CULTURE