Korea’s Federation of Korean Industries and Japan’s Keidanren agreed on the 10th to organize the Korea-Japan-Japan-Korea Future Partnership Fund Steering Committee and joint project direction.
FKI Chairman Kim Byung-joon and Keidanren Chairman Masakazu Tokura held a joint press conference at the Keidanren Hall on the same day and announced the above.
Acting President Kim and Chairman Masakazu will be inaugurated as co-chairs of the Steering Committee. On the Korean side, FKI Vice Chairman Yun Kim (Samyang Holdings Chairman), Vice Chairman Lee Woong-yeol (Kolon Honorary Chairman), and Executive Director Bae Sang-geun were appointed.
On the Japanese side, Keidanren Vice Chairman Yasuhiro Sato (Special Advisor to Mizuho Financial Group), Vice Chairman Toshiaki Higashihara (Chairman of Hitachi Works), and Vice Chairman Masakazu Kubota (Secretary General) serve as members of the committee.
The steering committee will be in charge of reviewing the operation of the joint project of the fund.
The two organizations also set up an advisory committee for advice on joint project selection and project promotion. Kang Seong-jin, an economics professor at Korea University, and Yukiko Fukagawa, a professor at the Academy of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, will serve as the advisory committee chair for the Korean side.
As for the direction of the joint project, it will be carried out by dividing it into the fields of △promoting exchange of young talents △strengthening industrial cooperation. In order to promote human resources exchange, strengthen university exchanges between the two countries, invite Korean high school teachers to Japan, and consider internships.
In terms of strengthening industrial cooperation, we are promoting economic security environment maintenance such as semiconductor supply chain and resource and energy security, maintaining and strengthening free and open international order, realizing green and digital transformation, strengthening industrial competitiveness, and responding to global challenges such as the spread of infectious diseases. plan to do so.
In addition, the Korea-Japan Industrial Cooperation Forum will be co-hosted on July 6 to deepen discussions on the possibility of economic cooperation between the two countries, such as semiconductors and decarbonization.
(Tokyo = News 1)
Source: Donga
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