New Southern Policy Plus
“Hearts together, beat forever”
7 Initiatives of NSP+
under the vision of the 3P
PeopleAn all-inclusive
people-centered community
1
Comprehensive public health cooperation in the post COVID-19 era
By sharing Korea’s disease control experience and K-health know-how,
serving to enhance the healthcare capacity of NSP countries,
by providing Korean healthcare services seeking to enhance medical welfare
control experience
- Provision of disease control goods and innovative technology
- $4.1 mil. support for New Southern region (‘20), monitoring projects
- Emergency response and ODA
health care system
- Launch of Lee Jong-wook masters degree scholarship and
infectious disease fellowship - Focused support for New Southern region professor fellowship, and
excellent medical schools
- Launch of an ASEAN-Korean high-level conference on health
- Launch of a ‘K-Health Partnership Planning Committee’
- Plan for integrated Partnership
the medical industry
- ICT based prior consultations with patients and follow-up system
- Customized support for medical institutions’ expansion and
operation in the New Southern region
2
Sharing Korean-style education model and supporting
the development of human resources
Through K-Education training and educating to
nurture human resources with a deep understanding of Korea, and
strengthening platforms for Korean language learning.
- On-demand faculty ·reorganization, professional college
- Support for ASEAN main national universities (agriculture, engineering, medical school)
- GKS (Global Korea Scholarship)
the expansion of exchanges
- Support for the adoption of Korean as a second foreign language
- Increase dispatch and training of Korean language teachers
- Opening more King Sejong Institutes
human resources capabilities
- Upgrading of TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training)
- Korean Company Employment consulting for returnee-employees
- Online education consulting, and training for teachers and policy makers
- Project for the strengthening of disaster risk reduction capacity
- Continued training for the strengthening of legal capacity
- Continued training in the digital government system
3
Promote two-way cultural exchanges
Bilateral cultural exchanges through state-of-the-art digital technology,
boosting mutual cultural exchanges, drawing links with
Hallyu and approaches that avoid direct contact, thereby opening up
new avenues in the two-way cultural exchanges.
- Establishing Digital Cultural Centers in Korea and abroad (VR, AR, 3D, etc. )
- The holding of integrated cultural festivals
- India Queen Huh Memorial Park Completion Ceremony (’21) - Events to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations with respective countries
(’21, Year of Mekong-Korea bilateral exchanges) - Establishing cultural partnership network : Korea-ASEAN film institute,
visual art institute, cultural heritage partnership institute
- Hallyu contents (dramas, pop), promising consumer goods (K-Beauty, K-Food)
convergence exhibition - Providing support for the launch of the OTT service into global markets
- Virtual Korean trip (couch potato trip) campaign via new media
- Production and distribution of online sports education content
- Support for multicultural families returning to their home countries
- Reducing the education gap for young multicultural people
ProsperityShared prosperity and
innovative growth
4
Build the foundation of mutually beneficial and
sustainable trade & investment
Expanding economic cooperation with countries of great potential for
the reshaping of the GVC,
we will build the framework for mutually beneficial and
sustainable trade and investment such as through the conclusion of
the RCEP and the strengthening of the CSR.
- Increasing support for ‘supply chain diversification’, the provision of trade
insurance and global companies’ M&A liquidity funds - Support for SMEs global market research (buyers, suppliers)
- Project for the enhancement of India infrastructure project with
EDCF (Economic Development Cooperation Fund)
solidarity and cooperation
- Signing of RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) (’20)
- Bilateral FTA·CEPA, integration with ODA and infrastructure
- Mutual partnership between Korean investors and local SMEs
- Conducting a program for the capacity building of Indian SMEs
- Encouragement of local rule compliance, consulting desk for labor issues
- Enhancing awareness of CSR and promoting best practice
- Identifying projects for cooperation in the fields of energy and
agricultural resources in Indonesia - Pursuing Indonesia-Korea joint offshore plant dismantlement initiatives and
pilot projects for their utilization (R&D)
5
Supporting rural villages and urban infrastructure development
Develop remote rural areas through One-Team Korea,
upgrade living standards through smart city and infrastructure projects.
- Adopt modernization projects in pilot villages
- Links with development projects such as ‘Clean India’
- Support for initiatives for the nurturing of the sustainable development of
fishing and mountain villages
- Technology sharing on smart farm models
- Modernization of quarantine facilities, capacity building in agriculture and
livestock quarantine (SPS: sanitary and phytosanitary)
- G2G partnership such as ASCN (ASEAN Smart Cities Network)
- Expanding participation in Indonesia new administrative capital city construction
- Participating in MPAC (Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity) infrastructure projects
- Combining various financing methods (ODA,EDCF)
- Financial solutions such as Public-Private Joint Funds
(PIS: Plant, Infra, Smart city of $1.5 billion) - Establishing a Financial Cooperation Center
(’21, Mission of the ROK to ASEAN)
6
Cooperation on future industries for common prosperity
Facilitate future industries such as next generation industries
(Startups, Industry 4.0 business sector, 5G) and
the contactless economy and achieve shared development with
the New Southern region in the post-pandemic era.
- Korea- ASEAN 5G Coordination Group (Industry·Ministry·Academia tripartite, ’22)
- Korea-India 5G Business Forum (’21)
- AI·Big Data·Cloud joint R&D with Singapore and India
- Pursue the building of Indonesia smart factories and a Cambodia micro-grid
- Core technology·service incubator for online business
- Fintech desk, training/forum for K-payment system
- Support for the launch of local online platforms
(Shopee, Qoo10) the building of Virtual Exhibition Halls - The holding of virtual conference industry exhibitions
- The joint establishment of a Korea-ASEAN startup policy roadmap (’21)
- Establishing a K-Startup Center as a start-up incubator (Singapore)
- Global Venture Fund (’20, $200 million)
- ASEAN-Korea Industrial Innovation Center (’21)
- ASEAN-Korea Standardization Joint Research Center (’22)
PeaceSustainable peace and security
7
Transnational cooperation for the fostering of safety and peace
Enhance people-centered non-traditional security cooperation in such areas as
the environment (climate change), marine and water resources,
transnational crime, and multi-dimensional projects to enhance the resilience of
the Mekong region.
- Sharing Satellite (Cheollian) geostationary orbit satellite data
- Launch of an ASEAN-ROK carbon Dialogue
- The building of Flood forecast and alarm systems (Laos, Philippines)
- Seek to establish an Indonesia Forest Fire Disaster Management Center
- Continue to provide assistance through the ASEAN+3 Emergency Rice Reserve
- Provision of marine pollution response vessels (Philippines, ’25)
- Indonesia Maritime pollution management capacity enhancement
(joint studies, monitoring, policy development)
international peace
- Police partnership networking such as Partnership MOU
- Expanding initiatives on clearance of unexploded ordinance and minesweeping
- Expanding environmental projects in the Mekong region
- Establishment of a Korea-Mekong Biodiversity Center - Building a water resource management system