Minister of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing from Saudi Arabia visits Korea to strengthen bilateral cooperation on housing by sharing visions of smart cities like the NEOM
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT, Minister WON Hee-ryong) announced that H.E. Majed bin Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Hogail, Minister of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing from Saudi Arabia is paying a visit to Korea from November 28th to 30th to call on various interested companies in the field of smart city and housing construction and to hold Housing Cooperation Forum as part of efforts to expand housing and smart city cooperation diplomacy with Korea.
The MOLIT supports the Saudi delegation’s visit to Korea, and jointly opened the “1st Korea-Saudi Housing Cooperation Forum” at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday 29 November at Lotte Hotel World in Seoul to share housing and smart city visions and technologies between the two countries.
This Forum was initially proposed as a cooperation platform between the two countries by Minister Won earlier on 6 Nov. when he visited the Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing (MOMRAH), which is in charge of housing and smart cities in the Saudi government. The event was surprisingly decided to be held on the occasion of the Saudi Arabia’s visit to Korea.
This is the first housing and smart city cooperation platform between the Korean and Saudi governments and the event is more meaningful in that it is the first event held by the two countries after the recent visit of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Korea to form a consensus on expanding cooperation.
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