{"id":83020,"date":"2026-08-31T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/83020\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:04:58","slug":"chey-tae-won-calls-for-stronger-korea-japan-economic-partnership-to-expand-cooperation-in-ai-and-critical-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/83020\/","title":{"rendered":"Chey Tae-won Calls for Stronger Korea-Japan Economic Partnership &#8230; to Expand Cooperation in AI and Critical Minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260901_01110113000006_L00.jpg\" orgwidth=\"1000\" orgheight=\"349\" alt=\"The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) held the 15th Korea-Japan Chamber Leaders Meeting with the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) on the 31st at the Westin Hotel in Sendai, Japan, under the theme &quot;Building the Future of Korea and Japan from the Regions.&quot; From left, in the front row, are Torii Shingo, chairman of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Ken Kobayashi, chairman of JCCI; Chey Tae-won, chairman of KCCI; and Yang Jaesaeng, chairman of the Busan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, posing for a commemorative photo with attendees. KCCI\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) held the 15th Korea-Japan Chamber Leaders Meeting with the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) on the 31st at the Westin Hotel in Sendai, Japan, under the theme &#8220;Building the Future of Korea and Japan from the Regions.&#8221; From left, in the front row, are Torii Shingo, chairman of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Ken Kobayashi, chairman of JCCI; Chey Tae-won, chairman of KCCI; and Yang Jaesaeng, chairman of the Busan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, posing for a commemorative photo with attendees. KCCI<br \/>\nChey Tae-won, chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stressed that economic cooperation between South Korea and Japan should move beyond simple trade expansion and develop into a &#8220;Korea-Japan economic partnership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his opening remarks at the 15th Korea-Japan Chamber Leaders Meeting, held on the 31st at the Westin Hotel in Sendai, Chey said, &#8220;What I envision as a Korea-Japan economic partnership is building a larger market and industrial ecosystem together.&#8221; He explained that, with the combined gross domestic product of South Korea and Japan exceeding $6 trillion, there is significant room for the two countries to grow their markets together. Ken Kobayashi, chairman of JCCI, said, &#8220;We will support new efforts so that cooperation can be strengthened in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors and clean energy, and so that joint value creation in future industries can be pursued.&#8221; In a joint statement, the two chambers also agreed to expand stockpiles of critical minerals and contribute to efforts to strengthen energy security.\n<\/p>\n<p>[Lee Dong-in]\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\">\nThis article has been translated by GripLabs Mingo AI.\n<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>Industrial ecosystem<\/p>\n<p> chamber of commerce<\/p>\n<p> Westin Hotel<\/p>\n<p> Kobayashi<\/p>\n<p> Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry<\/p>\n<p> economic cooperation<\/p>\n<p> future industries<\/p>\n<p> leaders&#8217; meeting<\/p>\n<p> KCCI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) held the 15th Korea-Japan Chamber Leaders Meeting with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[217,215,52866,16514,52868,52865,50848,214,216,36689,28898,52913],"class_list":["post-83020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-business-of-japan","tag-chamber-of-commerce","tag-economic-cooperation","tag-future-industries","tag-industrial-ecosystem","tag-japan-chamber-of-commerce-and-industry","tag-japans-business","tag-japanese-business","tag-kobayashi","tag-leaders","tag-westin-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}