He suggested that e-health and e-education services can easily be achieved by connecting existing facilities with cutting-edge IT services.
“Korea and Qatar share strong partnership in the field of energy; and now it is time to diversify the bilateral trade relations,” Chang Kyu Kim, Director General for Emerging Economies Cooperation at the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Commerce, Industry and Energy, Republic of Korea told The Peninsula.
Within a very short period of time, Korea has developed many competitive industries such as automobiles, shipping, electronics (smartphone) and a well developed information technology (IT) industry.
“I don’t think what we have achieved so far is enough. It has not reached to the final stage. We can do a lot in the field of healthcare and education sector by sharing our state-of-the-art IT services with Qatar,” he added.
“With Qatar aspiring to become a diversified knowledge-based society, there are host of business opportunities Korea and Qatar can work together for mutual benefits,” he added.
“We have already established our system. A lot of people go to Korea and Singapore from Qatar and other Arab countries, travelling long distances, to have plastic surgeries. There is no reason why we can’t develop a similar system here.”
Kim is here with an 18-member delegation comprising senior officials from public and private companies. Korea Business Centre, a commercial arm of the Korean embassy, held a meeting on “Korea-Qatar Medical Industry Cooperation Forum” yesterday.
The forum was co-organised by Qatar Chamber, Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Korea Digital Hospital Export Agency, and Yonsei University Healthcare System, in their efforts to advance and broaden cooperation in the medical field between the two countries. They also held meetings with senior officials of the Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health.
Connecting health and education through IT, Kim asserted, can be another stage of new business opportunities.
“Take the example of the LCD display industry. Just a decade ago there was no such industry in existence. Now we have flexible display facilities; and within the next five years the industry is going to witness a sea of change. So we have immense business opportunities waiting,” he said.
He suggested that LCD devices can revolutionise the healthcare industry for diagnosing and treating patients from far away places.
Eyeing at Qatar’s emerging business opportunities, Kim reiterated: “We are good in IT, but just IT is not enough. We also have a well developed automobiles industry, but now it is time to produce smart-cars. So we have immense opportunities with great challenges.”
Although, Korea has established itself as an emerging knowledge economy powerhouse in a very short period of time; and its companies such as Samsung, LG, Hyundai, KIA and many others are rubbing shoulders with global giants, but many believe that its experience of becoming a knowledge-economy has limited relevance for other countries.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Mohammad Shoeb
Quelle/Source: The Peninsula, 21.12.202
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