Kim Jin-dong, right, director general for bilateral economic affairs at the Korean foreign ministry, and Yvette van Eechoud, deputy director general for foreign economic relations at the Dutch foreign ministry, pose for a photo during their economic security talks in The Hague, on June 21, in this image provided by the Seoul ministry. Yonhap
Korea and the Netherlands discussed supply chain disruptions and ways for cooperation in the area during their first bilateral economic security talks this week, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Saturday.
The dialogue took place in The Hague, Friday (local time), led by Kim Jin-dong, director general for bilateral economic affairs at the South Korean foreign ministry, and Yvette van Eechoud, deputy director general for foreign economic relations at the Dutch foreign ministry.
The talks came as a follow-up to the agreement reached between the two countries to launch such a dialogue mechanism for economic security-related issues when President Yoon Suk Yeol paid a state visit to the Netherlands in December last year.
This week’s talks centered on ways the two countries can work together to effectively deal with supply chain disruptions, the ministry said in a release.
They agreed to continue to boost cooperation in areas like semiconductors, which the two countries have already actively engaged in, and also research and development in core and new technologies as well as people-to-people exchanges.
They also agreed to expand cooperation in the exchange of information related to export controls and the screening process for investment, the ministry said. (Yonhap)
