Strengthening Korea-US-Japan Cooperation in Digital Sector... First Ministerial-Level Multilateral Meeting

ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting as an Opportunity for Ministerial-Level Talks
Following the ROK-US-Japan Summit... "Advancing Digital Cooperation"
Promoting Cooperation Beyond Regional Collaboration to Global Activities

The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 1st that South Korea, the United States, and Japan have agreed to cooperate on ASEAN digital cooperation projects, including cybersecurity, mobile communication networks, and digital capacity building.

Minister Lee Jong-ho of the Ministry of Science and ICT is announcing the public livelihood discussion (semiconductor sector) and related major policy details with the people on the 15th at the Government Seoul Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul. Photo by Jo Yong-jun jun21@

Following the promise to strengthen cooperation in the digital sector at the South Korea-U.S.-Japan summit in August last year, bilateral cooperation discussions between South Korea and the U.S. and South Korea and Japan have continued. On this day, coinciding with the '4th ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting' held in Singapore, representatives of the digital departments of the three countries held talks.

The meeting was attended by Lee Jong-ho, Minister of Science and ICT, Koichi Watanabe, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, and Nathaniel Pick, U.S. Special Envoy for ICT, who agreed to strengthen cooperation in digital fields such as cybersecurity, mobile communication networks (Open RAN), and digital capacity building. They agreed to continue detailed discussions through working-level meetings in the future.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Science and ICT will hold the Korea-ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting on the 2nd to discuss digital cooperation measures, including the Korea-ASEAN Digital Innovation Flagship Project and other digital capacity building projects, and to share the Digital Rights Charter and the results of the Digital Deep Response Survey.

Minister Lee said, "As the global environment rapidly changes recently, science and technology are emerging as major security agendas. We will advance digital cooperation with key countries such as the U.S. and Japan, which share our values, to strengthen our country's economy and security and to play a role as a global digital model nation."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.