Korea’s Relevant Experience

• First established in 2015 following the MERS outbreak, the infectious disease control system helped ensure proper response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The quarantine governance, or “K-quarantine” has widely established.
• A robust national quarantine system was in operation in 2020, including the 24/7 Emergency Operations Center and the Rapid Response Team for suspected cases. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was promoted to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (June 2021). Regional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was in all cities/provinces across the nation in 2020. Epidemiological investigators were secured in 2015.
• A strategy to globally standardize K-Quarantine’s 3T (Test-Trace-Treat) was suggested (2020).

Background

• As the pandemic continued, Paraguay began to face the limitations, caused by the lack of healthcare professionals and infrastructure. And the country was also experiencing various socioeconomic problems such as slow economic growth, economic instability of the people, and increasing unemployment.
• The Paraguayan Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPBS) applied for a KSP project to learn from Korea’s experience of implementing a quarantine system and to establish effective and well-structured public health and infectious disease response policies.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Integration and interlinking of the contagious disease prevention network, strengthening public health systems, and implementing customized disease prevention system in Paraguay.

Tentative Outcomes

Capability building for partner country

• Contribution to increasing infection/disease control and healthcare capabilities of Paraguay

Promoting development cooperation

• Paraguay government in review of EDCF infrastructure project plan (including CDC establishment)

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• System for infectious disease management was established across the country.
• An automated Epidemiological Investigation Support System was adopted for COVID-19.
• 63 life centers are in operation with dedicated medical professionals for the life/medical support of patients with mild symptoms.
• Stricter immigration process at airports and a pre-survey of disease-related information via Q-System

Background

• The Government of Mozambique has declared a national emergency after the first case of the COVID-19 in the country. Despite the effort, the country was facing difficulties in responding to the pandemic due to insufficient the nation’s healthcare and quarantine response system and incorrect perception of the virus.
• Mozambique Ministry of Health (MISAU) applied for the KSP in order to improve the nation’s healthcare and quarantine response system including diagnosis, tracing, and treatment for infectious diseases

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Epidemics, infectious disease management, and epidemiological investigation of the MISAU

Tentative Outcomes

Promoting private economic cooperation

• A Korean diagnosis kit producer PCL exported 5,000 testing kits to a Company K, a vendor under the MISAU, under the initial contract (worth around USD 1,000). An additional contract of USD 7,600 was signed after the project, with an increased credibility in Korean products.

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• Korea has been promoting integrated water management, centered on the Ministry of Environment, for flood/drought management since 2018. It will make a transition to IoT and AI-based flood forecast system by 2025.

Background

• The Mekong River Commission (MRC) established a cooperation mechanism for utilizing and developing the transboundary river. However, various technical and policy factors have hindered effective flood/drought management.
• The Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRCS) and its member countries applied for a KSP project to unify water management system and efficiently respond to floods and drought by forming a communication channel that delivers timely forecasts and warnings.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Experience and implications of integrated flood and drought management in Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
• Flood prediction using AI and big data technologies
• Floods and drought prediction/warning communication system in MRC
• Integrated flood and drought management strategy in Mekong region

Tentative Outcomes

Promoting development cooperation

• To be followed up with a 2022/23 KSP project (“Flood and Drought Management and Communication in the Mekong River Commission”)
• Contribution to the launch of Korea-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Management (minister-level conference) (to be held in 2022)

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• Support for exports of SMEs began through global marketing and the small and medium business framework was established in the late 1990s.
• Today, various support businesses are in place to increase presence of SMEs in the global value chain (GVC).

Background

• SMEs in the country constitute nearly 99 percent of the entire business sector, but have weak competitiveness due to poor quality, lack of standards, equipment aging, insufficient human resource and lack of expertise.
• Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) requested for a KSP project with aims to benchmark Korea’s example cases of developing inter-linkages between large enterprises and SMEs especially in the automotive industry of Korea and experience in policy making in promoting local SMEs' integration into GVC throughout Korean economic growth.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Large-small enterprise collaboration: policy roadmap for increasing competitiveness of SMEs, measures to promote SMEs to integrate into GVC, enhancing 3 major industries (textile/garments, home appliances, and surgical equipment)
• Policies for automobile localization in Pakistan: enterprise support, technology development, and infrastructure establishment

Tentative Outcomes

Promoting private economic cooperation

• The 2021 Korea-Pakistan future car industry collaboration event in connection with the KSP project with 15 consultations and 2 MOUs made on EV/batteries

Promoting development cooperation

• Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) and Hyundai Research Institute promoting ODA to follow up on “Establishment of Pakistan Green Car Center”
• Korea Energy Agency and Hyundai Research Institute preparing to apply for an ODA project for “Masterplan of EV Charging Infrastructure in Pakistan”

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• Korea has implemented the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in several stages to address traffic issues following industrialization and urbanization.

Background

• Traffic demand in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city, has been increasing amid rapid urbanization and rising income. However, the city is faced with increasing traffic congestion and car accidents due to the lack of transportation infrastructures and insufficient traffic management.
• Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) requested a KSP project to adopt efficient road traffic management measures based on Korea's successful ITS implementation and operation experience.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Integrated operation measures of the metropolitan traffic control center (road network monitoring, traffic signal operation/management, road information provision, and key performance index development), automatic enforcement system development for traffic violations, emergency guidelines setting, emergency vehicle priority signal system implementation, and policy and technical proposals for linking with public transportation

Tentative Outcomes

Promoting development cooperation

• To be followed up with the newly launched TMC operations under the EDCF project (“Nairobi ITS Establishment and Junctions Improvement Project (Phase I and II)”, 2021-2023, USD 61 million)

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• Korea has promoted comprehensive plans for smart city development with details for each 5 years since 2009. Collaboration with local authorities helped build a smart city especially in newly developed urban areas and expand ICT infrastructure.

Background

• The Government of Honduras took steps to transform La Ceiba, Honduras’ third largest city, into a smart city. However, the efforts have been challenged by the lack of capabilities and budgets of the government and of governance for urban development.
• Office of Compliance of the Presidential Affairs and Priorities decided to adapt Korea's experience in developing a smart city through a KSP project in order to resolve urban issues and promote regional economic development.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Developing architecture and a roadmap for smart city in transportation, tourism, and safety areas and action plans to implement smart city infrastructure for transforming La Ceiba into a customized IT-based smart tourism city

Tentative Outcomes

Reflecting partner country’s policy

• The government of La Ceiba had actively expressed opinions on the project from the initial stage of the project during pre-discussion and reiterated positive feedback on feasibility study application for continuing to the main project, boosting possibility of follow-up projects.

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• The Korean Tax Service’s Neo Tax Integrated System (NTIS) was created by integrating ICT technology with the Tax authority’s expertise of e-taxation accumulated over two decades. By linking the NTIS to Hometax, Korea established an integrated tax administration system that made tax payment more convenient and tax administration more efficient.

Background

• Committed to fulfill one of its top priorities, accession to the EU by 2025, the Serbian government aims to stabilize public finance by increasing tax revenue and the efficiency of public administration.
• The Serbian Tax Administration (STA) submitted a KSP project proposal to have access to Korea's experience in introducing ICT-based tax payment services and building a tax administration system that successfully integrated tax data sets. In the proposal, the STA also hoped to have its transformation of tax administration evaluated and set up guidelines for the centralization of tax functions.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Strengthening the centralization of tax functions in the STA
• Support for the enhancement of communication with Serbian taxpayers using ICT
• Evaluation of and suggestions for the human resource management system of the STA

Tentative Outcomes

Enhancing development cooperation (follow-up actions in Korea)

• Follow-up technological support is scheduled under the 2022/23 Serbia KSP on the implementation of tax administration’s digitalization plan.

Outcomes reflected in the partner country’s national policy

• The STA requested the Ministry of Finance of Serbia, its superior agency, to draw up a new bill based on the KSP suggestion on securing legal grounds for the collection of taxpayer information (i.e. improvement in the legal and institutional frameworks concerning the collection of tax data).
• Another KSP recommendation on adding tax payment functions on the e-Taxes Portal (pre-filling, connection with the tax payment system, issuance of more types of electronic certificates, etc.) will be included in the mid- to long-term plan of the tax administration reform.
• The final consultation report, video report and key policy suggestions were all reported to the highest management body of the STA, the Transformation Committee, in March 2022. After a discussion on what can be done based on each policy suggestion, the final report was shared with the staff through the STA intranet.

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• The government's support for R&D in priority industries; the promotion of around 50 industry-academia cooperation groups and of public-private cooperation by regional governments; the introduction of the technology rating system to foster innovative SMEs; the government's strong commitment for SME innovation and growth-policy financing, tax benefits, support for the introduction of smart factories to promote digitalization, etc.

Background

• Only few of the Colombian SMEs, which represent 99% of the total enterprise, have managed to evolve into a large-sized or multinational company. Their insufficient capability for technological innovation has been cited as a key factor in Colombia's subpar national productivity.
• The National Planning Department (DNP, for its acronym in Spanish) submitted a KSP project proposal with the aim of gaining access to Korea's experience in strengthening innovative SMEs over the course of economic development and enhancing the growth potential of SMEs in Colombia.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Innovation policies for SMEs
• Policies on industry-academia linkage and public-private partnership for SMEs
• Financial support policies for SMEs
• Industries 4.0 and digital transformation of SMEs

Tentative Outcomes

Consultation reflected in the partner country’s policy making

• The Colombian government is considering the inclusion of KSP policy suggestions in the making of the 2022-2026 National Development Plan: selecting priority industries in R&D investment, adopting Korean-style Industry-Academia Linkage programs, and introducing Korea’s tax exemption policy for Industry 4.0-related fields, among others.

Policy networking strengthened

• Following a special request by Deputy Director Gomez during his visit to KDI, an online seminar titled “Innovation Policies for SMEs—Cooperation with Korea” was conducted on November 25, 2021. Representatives of 10 public institutions and around 20 SMEs joined the event.

Korea’s Relevant Experience

• Opened in 1973 as the only scientific city of Korea, Daedeok Science Town (DST) has developed to be a mecca for science and technology. After DST was transformed to Daedeok Innopolis in 2005, 4 more Innopolises and 12 Innotowns have been established across the country.

Background

• The Egyptian government launched the ‘Egypt Makes Electronics (EME)’ initiative in a bid to spur scientific and technological innovation in the country. As part of the EME initiative, the Egyptian government set up the Science and Technology Park for Electronics Research and Industry (STPERI) in 2018 with the aim of promoting R&D and generating employment by helping enterprises to grow.
• As STPERI is scheduled to be in full operation by 2023, the Egyptian government submitted a KSP project proposal to draw up an effective management strategy for STPERI that encompasses R&D research, industry-university cooperation, and private connection. It also seeks to foster the electronics industry for the purpose of helping attract foreign investment.

Consultation Topics and Progress

• Capability diagnosis and evaluation for strategic planning of STPERI
• Design of a sustainable structure and functions for STPERI
• A step-by-step development strategy for STPERI: a business model and the establishment of an industrial technology university

Tentative Outcomes

Promoting development cooperation

• MoU between the ERI and Korea Innovation Foundation on a follow-up project (September 15, 2021)