The Consulate General of Kazakhstan was opened in the second largest city of South Korea - Busan. Now, citizens of Kazakhstan living in South Korea will not need to travel more than 300 kilometers to Seoul in order to renew their passports, register marriage or birth of children. The authorities of Busan believe that this will improve the economic and cultural cooperation between the two countries.
“We know that K-pop and Korean culture in general is popular in Kazakhstan. Busan is a tourist city and a cinema center. Therefore, I am sure that our cooperation in the tourism sector will be strengthened,” said Park Eun-Ha, Ambassador of International Relations in Busan.
“On June 24-26, our foundation in cooperation with the Embassy of Kazakhstan is preparing a festival of Kazakh films in Busan. We are also preparing a forum of Eurasian cities, which will be dedicated to establishing close ties with the countries of Central Asia,” added Chung Jong Pil, Secretary General of Busan Foundation for International Cooperation.
Busan is not only the second largest city in South Korea, it has one of the five biggest seaports in the world, from where auto parts and motor oils are shipped to Kazakhstan, while Kazakhstan exports oil and uranium to South Korea.
“At the end of 2021, the trade turnover between the two countries reached US$3.2 billion. Over the first three months of this year, the volume of bilateral trade reached US$1.2 billion,” said Bakyt Dyussenbayev, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to South Korea.
The interest of South Korean investors towards Kazakhstan is steadily growing. The number of joint projects is also growing significantly. Therefore, it was decided to open a representative office of a Kazakh national company for attracting investments, located in the building of the Consulate General in Busan.
“The country is interested in developing mining and processing of rare earth metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. There is interest, for example, in organizing the production of electric cables. A very large volume of such products is exported, I mean, imported from South Korea to Kazakhstan and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. And there is a great opportunity to create production or to modernize the existing production in Kazakhstan,” noted Aigul Nuralina, representative of the national investment promotion company.
Editing by Galiya Khassenkhanova
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