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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Korea to share development knowhow

South Korea rose from the ashes of the war to become one of the world’s economic powers. Noticeably, the once aid-recipient recently became an international provider of development assistance, as part of efforts to become a “Global Korea.”Korea would like to share its development model with other developing countries repoted the Korea Times.“Korea is the only country whose status has been upgraded to a major donor from an aid recipient,” even President Obama of the United States lauded South Korea’s education and employment systems.”
The nations are interested in Korea’s e-Government network, management of public servants and their evaluation system.

The e-Government of Korea is the most popular area, while underdeveloped nations are eager to learning about the “Saemaeul” or New Village Movement, a government-run rural development campaign dating back to the 1970s.

South Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vietnam and Belarus earlier this year on the E-Government program. “Korea’s e-government network system is referred to as one of the best in the world,” he said. “We can share our e-Government technology with developing nations in a customized manner.”