Korea – Ukraine: Vision & Strategy

1. Korea – Ukraine: Vision & Strategy

Korea – Ukraine:
Vision & Strategy
18 April 2018
Ambassador of the Republic
of Korea in Ukraine
Lee Yang Goo

2. Contents

1. Global Mega Trends
2. Vision and Strategy
3. Potential of Ukraine
4. Current Bilateral Ties
5. Potential of Bilateral Relations
6. Vision – Miracle on the Dnipro River
7. Visualization
8. Strategy
9. 10 Short-term tasks for Partnership Development
10. Implementation mechanism
11. Results
12. Conclusion

3. 1. Mega Trends (VUCA)

Keywords of our time
(VUCA):
Volatile
Uncertain
Complex
Ambiguous
FEW (Food,
Energy, Water)
Relations
with North
Korea/
Donbass
Conflict
Identity Crisis
(post-truth,
post-facts)
Mega Trends
IV Industrial
Revolution
Return of
Geopolitics
Eurasian
Integration
Climate
Change

4.

2. Korea –Ukraine Cooperation. Vision and Strategy
Miracle of the Dnipro River
and the 2nd Han River Miracle
Mission
• Promote Eurasian Integration, cooperation and prosperity
Strategy
• present a new model of cooperation
• Integration, collaboration, action, synchronization, protection,
implementation
• HUB strategies : logistics, transportation, production, energy, agriculture,
digital, medical . etc
• Implementation strategies : master Plan, Action Plan, Road map, Change
management
Goal
Direction of Cooperation
Priority Cooperation Sectors
Short-term Actions
• HUB of digital-based logistics, production and Export
• Value-oriented : Vision, Trust, action-oriented
• Future-oriented : 4IR, Climate change, FEW, Eurasian integration
• Global-oriented : Expand bilateral, regional and global partnerships
• 1) Agriculture 2) Digital 3) Energy 4) Logistic 5) Medical
• 1) Promote Mega project as national strategic project 2) Mutual visit of
high-ranking officials in this year
3) Starting of pilot project 4)
implement short-term success cases 5) Successful holding 25th
anniversary events
State Tasks
• 1) 4IR preemptive response 2) Creating new growth energy 3) Creating
jobs 4) Enhance competitiveness 5) Contribution to national, regional and
global development
Environment
• 1)FEW 2) 4IR 3) Climate change 4) Eurasian integration 5) Security issue
(Donbass conflict · North Korean nuclear issue)

5.

Partnership beyond Ukraine
towards Eurasian and Global
Level = Center of logistics,
export, and manufacturing
based on digitalization
Baltic
Countries
Europe
Turkey &
Middle East
Africa
UKRAINE
Caucasus
Bilateral
partnership to
outreach Europe
and Global Level
Central
Asia
Russia &
China
to bring
cooperation and
integration
KOREA
finally to reach
peace and
prosperity

6. 3. Potential of Ukraine

• Land
• Agriculture
• Minerals
• Center of logistics
• Gateway to the Black Sea
and EU
• Free Trade Agreement with
EU, Turkey, Canada
• Center of manufacturing
and export
Rich Natural
Resources
High Tech
Country
Good
Geographical
Location
Human
Resources
• Leader of aerospace
technologies
• outer space technologies
• IT
• Highly qualified
personnel
• Top world position
for IT specialists

7. 4. Current Bilateral Ties

Samsung R&D
Center – 600
Ukrainian
specialists
10 Hyundai Rotem
trains
POSCO Daewoo
– one of the
leaders of grain
export in Ukraine
Growth of Korean
Wave
popularity/20,000
Taekwondists
30 000 Korean
descendants
population
Opening of the
Korean Education
Center in Ukraine
in March 2017
Implementation of
Agricultural Mega
Project
Intergovernmental
Commission in
April 2018
Establishment of
science &
innovation
platform

8. 7. Visualization

Kharkiv
Lviv
• city of education
&technology
• New Silicon Valley
Odessa/
Kherson/
Mykolayiv
Medical center and
hub of Europe
• Second Rotterdam
• Center of Agriculture and
Logistics
• Second Yeoido Island
Gidropark in • one of the most
Kyiv
beautiful islands in
Europe