SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) and Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Economy and Finance held a bilateral meeting on cooperation in public procurement and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in the Central Asian country last week, the PPS said Monday. The meeting between PPS Administrator Lim Ki-keun and Uzbekistan’s [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In a bid to address the growing demand for skilled foreign labor, the South Korean government, in collaboration with local municipalities, is launching a pilot program to train foreign workers in their home countries before their employment in South Korea. The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced on Thursday that [...]
ASTANA, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol was to head to Uzbekistan, the final leg of his Central Asia trip, after wrapping up a three-day state visit to Kazakhstan on Thursday. Before departure, Yoon will meet with Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov to review the agenda items discussed during his summit with [...]
Osan, South Korea, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Police are looking into a claim that a university in a city south of Seoul repatriated 22 Uzbek students against their will before the end of semester, officials said Tuesday. According to Hanshin University, 23 Uzbek nationals attending a language institute on its campus in the city of Osan, just south [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is supporting the preservation and management of cultural heritage in Uzbekistan. The Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Samarkand Institute of Archaeology in Uzbekistan to begin a project to develop cultural and tourism resources. In accordance with the agreement, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), South Korea’s state overseas aid agency, announced that it has built vocational training centers for women in Kogon, Qorako’l, and Shofirkon in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara region. These three districts have been known to struggle with high unemployment among women and have also been hit [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue of King Sejong, the inventor of the Korean alphabet, Hanguel, will go up in Uzbekistan’s capital as part of a cultural exchange between two local districts. The office of Seocho Ward in southern Seoul said Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the office of Mirabad [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Specialized equipment from South Korea will be used to preserve Uzbek artifacts. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) announced the opening of a preservation chamber at the State Museum of Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Samarkand on Tuesday (local time). The chamber will help to preserve 230,000 artifacts owned by eight [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecommunications firm, said Wednesday it has joined hands with the country’s top real estate investor to seek internet data center (IDC) business opportunities in Uzbekistan. Under the partnership with Igis Asset Management Co., KT will provide its know-how and technology solutions in the IDC [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., one of South Korea’s leading builders, said Tuesday that it has won a US$540 million order to build a power plant in Uzbekistan. Hyundai E&C said it received a letter of award from JSC Uzbekenergo on Monday for a project to build a 450 [...]