The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) will jointly hold a Korea-Japan Industrial Cooperation Forum with the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) next month.
On the 19th, FKI announced that on July 6, it will hold an industrial cooperation forum at the FKI Conference Center in Yeouido to review the current status of industrial cooperation between the two countries and to create a more future-oriented Korea-Japan relationship.
The forum, which will begin with opening remarks from representatives of the business communities of both countries and congratulatory speeches from government officials, will feature keynote presentations on the theme "Current Status and Prospects of Korea-Japan Industrial Cooperation" by Professor Kang Sung-jin of Korea University and Professor Yukiko Fukagawa of Waseda University.
In the business presentation session, chaired by Professor Kang, the Korean side will include Kim Yoon, Chairman of the Korea-Japan Economic Association (Chairman of Samyang Holdings), Jin Ok-dong, Chairman of Shinhan Financial Group, Kim Kyo-hyun, Vice Chairman and CEO of Lotte Chemical, and Choi Soo-yeon, CEO of Naver. The Japanese side will include Yasuhiko Sato, Special Advisor of Mizuho Financial Group, Toshiaki Higashihara, Chairman of Hitachi, Ltd., and Nobuhiro Endo, Special Advisor of NEC Corporation. They will discuss the current status of industrial cooperation and future challenges between the two countries.
FKI and Keidanren announced at a press conference in May regarding the direction of the "Korea-Japan and Japan-Korea Future Partnership Fund" project that, as part of efforts to deepen industrial cooperation between the two countries, they will hold the Korea-Japan Industrial Cooperation Forum on July 6.
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