The comment came from Park Tae-kyun, Research Professor at Department of FoodEngineering under Korea University, the Republic of Korea (RoK).
In an interview with Seoul-based Vietnam News Agency correspondents, Park, whois also chairman of the Korea Food Communication Forum under the Ministry ofAgriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, spoke highly of Vietnam’s initiatives topromote sustainable, innovative and inclusive growth towards economy, financeand society.
The initiatives together with the country’s leading role in the APEC 2017 willserve as a catalyst for APEC to achieve the Bogor Goals 2020 and become aneffective economic and trade cooperation mechanism in the context of increasingprotectionism worldwide, he noticed.
The RoK professor said that this was the second time in 11 years that Vietnamwas chosen to host the APEC events, showing that Vietnam and its economicachievements have been appraised internationally. He said with experience andmeticulous preparations, Vietnam will successfully organise the event.
Park expressed his impression on the radical changes of the Vietnamese economyin the past years, showing his upbeat that the country will continue toexperience sustainable development thanks to the Government’s sound economicreforms.
Regarding Vietnam-RoK bilateral relations, Park said that since the signing ofthe free trade agreement in 2015, the two countries have become large economicpartners of each other with escalating trade revenue through years.
Vietnam is a potential market with numerous opportunities to be offered to foreigninvestors in general and Korean ones in particular, he said.-VNA