The Republic of Korea and Nigeria on Tuesday, in Abuja had bilateral talks at the possibilities of Nigeria turning into a part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The Special Envoy of the President of Republic of Korea, Mr. Jang Sungmin, led a seven-guy delegation, which covered the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Kim Young-chae, to the talks with officials of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Speaking with reporters, Jang stated the Korean authorities is in search of to cooperate with Nigeria that’s the gateway to Africa and the continent’s maximum populous united states.
The envoy stated Nigeria boasts of the largest herbal assets in Africa in addition to the biggest arable land that are the standards for financial energy in Africa.
He harassed that Korea feels it may collaborate with Nigeria to acquire the ones goals for the reason that the West African usa has a brand new management that has spread out the united states of america for business.
Jang stated aside from herbal assets, Nigeria has a more youthful era staff to force its aspiration to steer the arena withinside the Fourth Industrial Revolution, at the same time as Korea has the generation and human ability for technological switch in agriculture, cyber space, security, bio-era, oil refinery amongst others.
“Korea is already main the Fourth commercial revolution and so President Yoon Suk Yeol feels that through combining forces and increasing avenues for cooperation will cause prosperity for Nigeria and probable catalyze a lot quicker monetary improvement for it than Korea has experienced,” Jang stated.
He brought that his u . s . became constructive to cooperate with a brand new cupboard to be constituted with the aid of using President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stressing that Korea changed into additionally eager to percentage with the brand new Nigerian authorities its not unusualplace values of liberty, peace and prosperity that underline the muse of its overseas policy.
“We trust Nigeria, mainly the brand new authorities led via way of means of President Tinubu is the authorities that we are able to percentage this not unusualplace fee with and as a great deal extra improved cooperation with. Korea is a rustic that used to acquire improvement help from the worldwide network. Now because the tenth biggest economic system withinside the international Korea is in a completely unique function to present again to the worldwide network what it has obtained withinside the beyond and so we look ahead to our cooperation with Nigeria,” he stated.
Other participants of the delegation covered the Deputy Secretary to the Korean President on for Future Policy, Yoo Chang-ho, the Vice President of SK, Guillame Barthe-Dejean, Chief Financial Officer, LG Electronics Nigeria, Kim Inkyu, Economic Attache Korean Embassy, Choi Jungwon and Miss Park Hyesong of Korea International Development Agency (KOICA).