Trade Minister Holds Video Meetings with Czech Officials
Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Sung Yun-mo had video meetings with Czech Industry and Trade Minister Karel Havlíček and the republic’s envoy for nuclear energy Jaroslav Mil on Aug. 19 and 20. Their discussions covered bilateral cooperation in various fields such as industry, technology and energy and the republic’s nuclear power plant construction project scheduled to enter the bidding phase late this year.
“Economic cooperation between South Korea and the Czech Republic is currently expanding and South Korea’s participation in the new project will contribute to the expansion,” the South Korean minister remarked during his meeting with the Czech minister. The project is to build one nuclear power plant in Dukovany.
“South Korean nuclear power plant builders have proven their excellence in a number of projects, including the Barakah project in the UAE,” the South Korean minister said in his meeting with the envoy, adding, “It took just 30 years for them to build the first nuclear power plant in South Korea and then export their plant for the first time and this development model can be optimal for nuclear power development in the Czech Republic.”
The South Korean minister proposed the establishment of a system for full-cycle collaboration so that the two countries’ cooperation in the industry can become even more practical beyond their multiple MOUs already signed in relation to power plant design, equipment and component production, nuclear fuel, etc.