Park Yong Min, the Korean envoy to Rwanda has revealed that many Korean businessmen have expressed their desire to increase investment activities in Rwanda.
The ambassador made the remarks this November 3, 2015 after paying a courtesy call to Rwanda’s Senate president, Hon Bernard Makuza.
Ambassador Yong stated that trade and investment based cooperation between the countries is excellent especially the domains of science and technology as well as education and the Korean people will increase their investments in these areas.
The two also discussed prosperous bilateral relations that will be expanded through parliamentary diplomacy through parliamentarian exchanges, a wish that the duo said was aimed at exchanging best practices.
They agreed that trade and investment cooperation need to grow further as well as the academic sector.
Amb. Min said that the Republic of Korea can learn from Rwanda about transitional justice, since his country shares a lot of history with Rwanda.
There are Korean scholars who have done research on Gacaca Jurisdiction as a model of uniting justice.
Rwanda and the Republic of Korea also share many strategic views and mutual interests and cooperate closely through the Korean development arm (KIOCA) in areas of agriculture, education, information technology and last year 2014, the Korean government supported the Rwandan financial budget with over Rwf18billions.
The two nations established their diplomatic relations on March 21, 1963 and are respectively represented by their resident Missions in Seoul and Kigali
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