Korea and Vietnam have vowed to enhance bilateral cooperation on healthcare and medical services and on the forestry industry.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chung Chin-youb (right) shakes hands with his Vietnamese counterpart Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien following the signing of an MOU that will strengthen Korea-Vietnam cooperation on healthcare and medical services, on Dec. 1 in Seoul.
With this new agreement, an upgraded version of the last MOU that the two countries signed in 2008, mutual cooperation in this sector will expand. Under this new MOU, the two sides have agreed to strengthen cooperation on telemedicine technologies and to exchange technologies and data about hospital information systems.
The two nations will further increase the bilateral exchange of data, technologies and human resources in the fields of disease control and prevention, health insurance, public health policies, healthcare projects and biotechnology.
“This agreement will allow the two nations to share a more diverse range of information about telemedicine technologies. We will also see more data and manpower exchanges between the two governments, as well as more joint research,” said an official from the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Representatives from the forest services of both Korea and Vietnam discuss how to enhance bilateral cooperation in the forestry industry during the eighth Vietnam-Korea Forest Bilateral Cooperative Meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, on Nov. 24.
The two countries will also expand cooperation on the forestry sector.
The forest services of Korea and Vietnam jointly hosted the eighth Vietnam-Korea Forest Bilateral Cooperative Meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, on Nov. 24. At the conference, the two sides agreed to engage more in forestry cooperation by joining forces on overseas reforestation projects and on the preservation of seed diversity, as well as conducting joint research into biological diversity.
In particular, representatives from Korea called for more exchanges of information about possible reforestation sites across Vietnam and about Vietnamese companies that hope to invest in such reforestation projects with their Korean counterparts.
Finally, the two sides held in-depth discussions on how to increase joint research into biological diversity in forests, which, they hope, will lead to the use of natural resources, such as tropical plants, for commercial purposes.
“Bilateral consultations on the forestry industry between the two countries have expanded across many areas, covering the development of forest resources to the promotion of biological diversity and effective responses to climate change. The two governments will keep working to consolidate this cooperation so that we can produce great results for each other in this sector,” said an official from the Korea Forest Service.
By Sohn JiAe
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Korea Forest Service
jiae5853@korea.kr
Participants in the eighth Vietnam-Korea Forest Bilateral Cooperative Meeting pose for a group photo on Nov. 24 in Da Nang, Vietnam. Pictured in the front row is Kim Yong-gwan (third from left), director of the Global Forest Resources Division at the Korea Forest Service. To his left is Deputy Minister of the Vietnam Forest Service Nguyen Ba Ngai.
