Ministry of Trade Industry and Resources

Park Jung-sung, Deputy Minister for Trade at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR, Minister JK (Jung-Kwan) Kim), met with Ragnhild Sjoner Syrstad, State Secretary at Norway’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, at Lotte Hotel in Seoul on Tuesday, December 16, to discuss ways to strengthen substantive bilateral cooperation between Korea and Norway in response to recent changes in the global trade environment.

Deputy Minister Park noted that bilateral trade has expanded both in scale and in quality since the entry into force of the FTA and emphasized that practical cooperation between Korea and Norway is advancing in the shipbuilding sector, particularly in autonomous navigation and AI-based future ship technologies. He added that Korea hopes to further expand bilateral cooperation into advanced industries, including the green transition and critical supply chains.