Event set for Friday afternoon at The Plaza Hotel Seoul; semiconductor, battery cooperation on agenda

[Provided by the Korea-Japan Policy Research Center at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies]
[Provided by the Korea-Japan Policy Research Center at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies]

By Shin Sang-yoon, The Herald Business

The Korea-Japan Policy Research Center at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies announced Friday that it will hold the 2nd Korea-Japan Economic Security Cooperation Forum on Friday afternoon at The Plaza Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul. The inaugural forum was held at the New Otani Inn Tokyo in Tokyo on June 27 last year.

The forum was organized to assess the structural challenges facing the two countries and chart a medium- to long-term course for cooperation in what organizers describe as the "Yalta 2.0 era" — a term referring to a potential reshaping of the geopolitical order around major powers.

Leading academics and top experts in security and trade from both countries will take part, including professors Lee Chang-min of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Suzuki Kazuto and Sahashi Ryo of the University of Tokyo, and Park Sang-joon of Waseda University. Discussions will unfold across two sessions.

Participants plan to examine how the prolonged US-China strategic rivalry is reshaping the economic security environment and to explore concrete avenues for bilateral cooperation amid the broader realignment of global trade norms.

The forum will focus particularly on the mutual policy implications for the two countries and the development of a medium- to long-term cooperation blueprint — covering the Global South strategy, the building of a Korea-Japan business ecosystem, and industrial partnerships in semiconductors, batteries, energy and digital sectors.

Lee Chang-min, the center's director, said the forum "focuses on the more structural and long-term dimensions of shifts in the international order," adding that the center aims "to expand the Korea-Japan cooperation dialogue into a medium- to long-term perspective and make a tangible contribution to policymaking by both governments."


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