KITA Held 'Korea-Russia Business Forum’ in Moscow
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Discussed cooperation measures in logistics,
energy and cutting-edge industries between the two countries upon Peace Era of
the Korean Peninsula-
The Korea International Trade Association (Chairman, Kim
Young-joo) will hold a 'Korea-Russia Business Forum' in cooperation with the
Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce in Moscow, Russia on June 22 (local
time).
At the forum, which will be held under the theme of 'Peace
Era of the Korean Peninsula and Prosperity of Eurasia', businessmen from both
countries will look for practical cooperation measures such as strengthening
partnership in manufacturing and high-tech industries, railway linkage and energy
development.
In this forum, not only the ministers of economic agencies,
including Kim Dong-yeon, the Minister of Strategy and Finance and a Deputy
Prime Minister of South Korea, Baek Woon-kyu, the Minister of Trade, Industry
and Energy, but also song Young-gil, head of the Northern Economic Cooperation
Committee will accompany and stress the importance of the economic cooperation
between South Korea and Russia as well as the trilateral cooperation among the
South, the North and Russia.
The economic delegation consists of 208
people from 101 companies, including chairman Kim Young-joo of the Korea
International Trade Association, vice-chairman Yoon Boo-geun of Samsung
Electronics, president Jung Jin-heng of Hyundai Motor, vice-chairman Cho
Sung-min of LG Electronics and chairman Goo Ja-yeol of LS Group and SK
Innovation, GS Global and Hanhwa will participate. The presidents of KEPCO and
Korea Railroad Corporation, and KOGAS are also attending and will be discussing
the linkage of railroads between the South, the North and Russia and electric
power and gas cooperation projects.
From Russia, federal energy companies
and 130 business people and who are willing to have trade with Korea and invest
in Korea, including Sergey Katyrin, the president of the Chamber of Commerce
and Industry of the Russian Federation, Leonid Mikhelson, chairman of
management board of NOVATEK, Pavel Livinsky, LIVINSKY, chairman of the
Management Board and Director General of PJSC Rosseti and Alexei Rakhmanov, president of United
Shipbuilding Corporation of Russia will participate in the event.
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