Korean Envoy Promises All Efforts To Enhance Direct Trade With Faisalabad
Umer Jamshaid Published March 28, 2024 | 05:40 PM
FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Mar, 2024) Korean Ambassador Park Kijun said on Thursday that serious efforts would be made to enhance direct trade between Faisalabad and Korea.
Addressing the business community at the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI), he said Faisalabad was the textile hub of Pakistan. He said bilateral cooperation in the sector would be further improved in the coming years. He particularly identified agriculture, textile, energy and IT and said that these sectors had potential to increase cooperation for benefit of the two countries.
He said that Korean businesspeople fully understand the potential and hopefully they would exploit it by enhancing investment and technical cooperation. He was optimistic that Pakistan would soon emerge as a major player in South-West Asia because of its economic growth and social development. He said that the FCCI should play a key role in enhancing bilateral trade between Faisalabad and Korea, while the Korean embassy would also complement these efforts. He said that relations between the Korean embassy and the FCCI would be further strengthened to give a quantum jump to bilateral trade.
About the short stay period on multiple visas, he promised resolving the issue in consultation with the FCCI president. He also assured to share Korean experience of SMEs with Faisalabad so that this sector could make tremendous progress in this field. He said that empowerment of women was a general global issue; however, "we would also look into it to involve Pakistani women in the national mainstream".
He said Pakistani mangoes were being exported to Korea and Pakistani exporters would get more orders for export of the specific Pakistani delicacy. About import of Korean dyes and chemicals, he said "our quality products are comparatively costly as compared to the Chinese products". However, he hoped that Korean companies would again take interest in the Pakistani market and regain it with innovative marketing steps.
Earlier, Dr Khurram Tariq President FCCI welcomed the Korean ambassador and his team. He also introduced Faisalabad and FCCI and quoted his first meeting with his Excellency in which particular stress was laid on exchange of cultural delegations.
He said that 25 major Korean companies were working in Pakistan, while a hydroelectric power project was also undertaken in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with an estimated cost of $1bn. He said that a state-of-the-art Technical Textile Centre had also been established in NTU with Korean assistance. He said the biggest Korean investment in Faisalabad is in the Nishat Hyundai assembling plant in FIEDMC.
Maqsood Akhtar Butt, Arif Ihsan Malik, Ms. Najma Afzal and others exchanged views with the ambassador on diverse issues.
Later Executive Member Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry offered vote of thanks while President Dr Khurram Tariq along with Vice President Hajji Muhammad Aslam Bhalli presented FCCI shield to Mr. Park Kijun, ambassador of South Korea.
The ambassador also presented gifts to Dr Khurram Tariq and Haji Muhammad Aslam Bhalli. He also recorded his impressions in the FCCI visitor’s book.
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