For Evergoing Friendship

The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) chairman Kim In-ho (right) and U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce adopted a joint statement for expanding their cooperative relationship in Seoul on Aug. 29. (photo courtesy: KITA)
The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) chairman Kim In-ho (right) and U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce adopted a joint statement for expanding their cooperative relationship in Seoul on Aug. 29. (photo courtesy: KITA)

 

The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) announced that its chairman Kim In-ho and U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce adopted a joint statement on August 29 during the latter’s visit to South Korea.

According to the joint statement, the U.S. and South Korean business communities are to work more closely with each other in the interest of job creation, economic growth, investment, trade, etc. In addition, they are to expand their cooperative relations in business, trade, investment and so on to contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.

The adoption of the joint statement was followed by a dinner reception in Seoul, which was attended by National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee Chairman Shim Jae-kwon, 90 or so South Korean entrepreneurs, Chairman Ed Royce and U.S. lawmakers who visited South Korea with him, including Korea Caucus Co-chair Ami Bera, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Chairman Ted Yoho, and Brad Schneider, a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

They visited South Korea on August 27 to discuss major pending issues such as security in the Korean Peninsula and KORUS FTA renegotiation. In addition, Chairman Ed Royce and Congressman Ami Bera visited the main offices of the CJ Group and the SPC Group, which made an investment in California as their local constituency. 

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