Kazakhstan Promotes Investment Opportunities in South Korea

photo: Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry

On June 4, Seoul hosted a seminar organized by Caspian Group Korea and several Korean organizations, on the development of bilateral economic cooperation and investment opportunities offered by Kazakhstan.

Endorsed by Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry as a significant platform for promoting investment opportunities to the Korean business community, the seminar was attended by deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Kim Song Won and Kim Seung Soo, and Korean companies including Samsung, Hyundai, KPMG Korea, KT, and CJ.

In his address, Deputy of the National Assembly Kim Song Won referred to the important relationship between Kazakhstan and Korea, and emphasized the need to create synergy by combining advanced Korean technologies and rich Kazakh natural resources.

Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Korea, Nurgali Arystanov, likewise welcomed strengthening cooperation between the two countries and particularly, the input of Korea’s experience in Kazakhstan’s industrial development, smart city technologies, healthcare systems, as well as agriculture and smart farms.

Focus then turned to the new Alatau City project, an ambitious centre in Kazakhstan which designed to attract for Korean advanced technologies, will play a significant role in strengthening bilateral investment cooperation and the development of sustainable urban infrastructure.

 

 

Times of Central Asia

Times of Central Asia

Laura Hamilton MA, is the former Director of the Collins Gallery at the University of Strathclyde. She first visited Kyrgyzstan in 2011 to research and curate a major exhibition of contemporary textiles and fashion. Since 2012, she has worked as an editor on over thirty translations of Central Asian novels and collections of short stories. In more recent years, her work has focused on editing translations of Kyrgyzstan's great epics -'Ak Moor', Saiykal', Janysh Baiysh', 'Oljobai and Kishimjan', 'Dariyka', 'Semetey' and 'Er Toshtuk' for The Institute of Kyrgyz Language and Literature, and the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University.

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