• KOTRA HOLDS IR
  EVENT IN SINGAPORE
  AND HONG KONG
•    In a bid to promote Korea as an ideal investment destination for Asian financial investors, KOTRA hosted an investor relations (IR) event in Singapore and Hong Kong. The IR session, which ran from March 13 to 16, introduced investment incentives, successful investment cases and major business opportunities in the cultural content and ICT industries to participants. One-on-one meetings were also held for Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund and companies wanting to reinvest in Korea.
      In Hong Kong, KOTRA also held fruitful discussions with regional development companies and talked to them about investment opportunities
• in Korea. About 30 people from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), KOTRA and consulting companies from Korea attended the event.
      These companies included NOD Bizware, a company that develops phone applications, AKAIntelligence, an enterprise that makes AI robots, and CNP Story Entertainment, a cultural content company specializing in tourism, beauty and food.
      KOTRA expects these events to expand cooperation networks between Korea and the Greater China Region.

• KOTRA AND DEFENSE
  MINISTRY APPROVES
  PURCHASE OF KOREAN
  SELF-PROPELLED
  HOWITZERS TO
  FINLAND
•    Finland will purchase K9 Thunder 155mm self-propelled howitzers from South Korea.
      On March 2, KOTRA and the Ministry of Defense, along with Finnish defense minister Jussi Niinisto, approved the purchase of 48 former
• South Korean Army K9s to Finland. This is Korea’s third exportation of howitzers, following deals with Turkey (2001) and Poland (2014). The contract is worth approximately EUR 146 million (USD 155 million) and the K9s will be exported by 2025.
      As Korea’s government-to-government managing agency, KOTRA was able to complete and implement the export contract with support from the Defense Acquisition Program Administration.

• JAPANESE COMPANIES
  SHOW INTEREST IN
  RECRUITING KOREA’S
  HIGHLY SKILLED
  WORKFORCE
•    In a bid to help young Korean job seekers find employment overseas, KOTRA hosted a job fair in Osaka, Japan on March 9. In attendance were 23 Japanese companies and 130 Korean job seekers.
      “Not only Korean exchange students but about 90 students came from Korea and expressed great interest in working in Japan. We will continue to support our young people to find good jobs overseas,” said Lee Gwangho, Head of KOTRA’s Osaka office.
      The job fair offered plenty of opportunities for companies and
• job seekers to get to know each other, including interview sessions, recruitment programs, job seminars and employment mentoring classes for highly-skilled individuals.
      A representative from the semiconductor manufacturing company Denshigiken who recruited four Koreans last year said, “Although we hired Korean job seekers with no former work experience, they were already very skilled with computeraided design, so we were able to work with them right away.”

• KOTRA HOLDS KOREAN
  PAVILION AT 2017 GAME
  CONNECTION AMERICA
•    From February 27 to March 1, KOTRA launched its Korean Pavilion at Game Connection America 2017 (GCA) in Silicon Valley.
      Participating companies were highly satisfied with business consulting opportunities with internationally recognized companies, including EA and Blizzard. Foreign companies were especially impressed with the highly advanced technology of Korean companies.
      In regards to the event, Yun-Kang
• Won, President of Latis Global (an action mobile game) said, “Thanks to this opportunity, I saw the possibility of entering into the American market, which is the biggest gaming market after China.”
      Meanwhile, Game Connection is an international event where over 2700 developers, publishers, distributors and service producers come to find new partners and/or (in the case of service providers) find new clients.