{"id":107934,"date":"2020-10-23T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107934"},"modified":"2020-10-23T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:55:18","slug":"korean-ambassador-describes-sri-lanka-as-one-of-the-safest-countries-invites-korean-investors-to-sri-lanka-oct-23-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/23\/korean-ambassador-describes-sri-lanka-as-one-of-the-safest-countries-invites-korean-investors-to-sri-lanka-oct-23-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Ambassador Describes Sri Lanka as \u201cOne of the Safest Countries,\u201d Invites Korean Investors to Sri Lanka &#8211; Oct. 23, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Calling on Prime Minister Mahinda\nRajapaksa at Temple Trees this evening, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea\nWoonjin Jeong called Sri Lanka one of the safest countries,\u201d and said he is\nactively encouraging Korean investors to explore opportunities in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several decades ago, Korea was one of the\nlargest investors in Sri Lanka. Currently, there are more than 115 Korean\ncompanies operating in the country, and total trade between the two countries\nstood at US$ 327 million last year. Both countries are keen on increasing that\nnumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Jeong also congratulated the\nPrime Minister on the victory in the recently-held General Election and said it\nwas trust and confidence\u201d that resulted in the mandate the Government\nreceived. He also commended the Government on its handling of the pandemic and\nsaid the Korean Government would be providing tangible support to Sri Lanka in\ncoping with the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two delegations discussed a number of\npriorities for further cooperation between Sri Lanka and Korea that included\nFDIs, exports, tourism and migrant workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Rajapaksa recalled the\nphone call with Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun earlier this week and\nrenewed his invitation for the Korean Prime Minister to make his first ever\nvisit to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting that the Korean Prime Minister is\nkeen on visiting Sri Lanka, Ambassador Jeong said, We are and will always be\nclose friends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit Calling on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this evening, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Woonjin Jeong called Sri Lanka one of the safest countries,\u201d and said he is actively encouraging Korean investors to explore opportunities in Sri Lanka. Several decades ago, Korea was one of the largest investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}