Hai Phong to host Vietnam-Korea Trade Promotion Week

The Vietnam-Korea Trade Promotion Week will take place in the northern port city of Hai Phong from September 1-10, toward celebrating the 31st anniversary of Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) diplomatic ties.

According to Director of Shining Media Joint Stock Company Ta Thi Huong, the event aims to enhance the linkages between trade and investment promotion activities, thus contributing to popularising the culture, tourism, history, and peoples of the two countries, raising their mutual understanding, and tightening the Vietnam-RoK strategic cooperative partnership and ties between Hai Phong and the RoK in particular.

Accordingly, the event will take place many rich and diverse activities such as culinary experiences, cultural spaces with typical folk games of the two countries, amusement parks, a waterbomb festival, and a K-pop Dance Cover programme, with the participation of Vietnamese and Korean artists.

At the event, there were nearly 100 booths, including 16 displaying Vietnamese and Korean products and 72 introducing Vietnamese and Korean cuisine, specialties, and beverages.

The RoK now invests in 105 projects worth about 9.97 billion USD in Hai Phong, leading in both volume and value of FDI projects in the city.

Last year, these projects generated 14.5 billion USD in revenue, earned 13.5 billion USD from exports, contributed 3.57 trillion VND (155.2 million USD) to the budget, and generated jobs for 41,000 workers.

Most of the RoK’s projects in Hai Phong are high-tech and effective. Additionally, Korean is chosen as one of the foreign languages to be taught in several schools in the city.