Koo Yun-cheol, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, said on the 22nd that he would work more closely with international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to connect them to the national interest.
Deputy Prime Minister Koo said on X (formerly Twitter) that day that he held a strategy review meeting on Friday with Ministry of Economy and Finance staff working at major international financial institutions, and stated accordingly.
Deputy Prime Minister Koo said they reviewed international organizations' areas of interest and related policies, including artificial intelligence (AI), energy, critical minerals, and procurement rule reforms, and held intensive discussions on how they could be consolidated with domestic policy, while emphasizing that the higher the Republic of Korea's standing becomes, the more inevitable cooperation with the international community is.
At the strategy review meeting held via video, Deputy Prime Minister Koo proposed sharing Korea's best policies with international financial institutions and strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation. To that end, he asked each organization's secondees to make active efforts.
Staff seconded to the IMF, the World Bank (WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) attended the meeting.