Korea gives priority to Viet Nam in technology transfer
  08/01/2004 -- 21:40(GMT+7) 
 
Ha Noi, Aug. 1 (VNA) - The Government and companies of the Republic of Korea (RoK) consider Viet Nam one of their top priority partners in technology selling and transfer, said Choi Beng Gu, RoK Minister Counsellor in Viet Nam at the opening of the 2004 RoK Technology Fair in Ha Noi on Friday.

He cited a number of programmes and projects that the RoK has implemented to help Viet Nam train skilled workers and develop technology, the latest being a project to build the Viet Nam-RoK Information Technology College.

With the current pace and if Viet Nam exerts itself, it will be able to catch up with the RoK in production technology in 10 years, Choi said, adding that he praised the Vietnamese people's intelligence, learning capacity and industriousness.

He called on the Vietnamese Government and businesses to pay more attention to cooperation with the RoK side in technology transfer, especially in high-tech industries.

The RoK Technology Fair in Ha Noi attracted more than 200 Vietnamese companies and research centres, who hoped to find partners among the 24 RoK companies, who brought 38 new technologies to the event. Sixteen memorandums of understanding on cooperation and technology transfer were signed between Vietnamese and RoK companies on its first day.

God comes before Vietnam.

Vietnam comes before religion. I'm not sure whether God exists

I thought you were muslim?

What makes you believe God doesn't exist?

I've grown up in a western society and have learnt many things that my parents and grandparents have been devoid of, hence I can more a more informed choice base on what I've learnt and experienced. But yes I do pray and hope that God does exist.

But since I'm a bad Muslim, I'd probably be going to hell if God exists

Religion had some good benefits. A lot of good rules came out of it like "no sex before marriage" and if people actually followed these rules we wouldn't have aids, and also other rules like washing after certain procedures or moral rules seem to keep people under good behaviour at times. Well there are extremist as well though.

yes i agreed but still it should only be part of your life not the center of it

What if your religion commands you to do so? If you truly believe in your religion and if it commands you to put it first in your life then why not? If you don't, then do you really believe in it?

What if your religion commands you to do so? If you truly believe in your religion and if it commands you to put it first in your life then why not? If you don't, then do you really believe in it?

People should learn to keep their religious views and beliefs to themselves.

Lets hope these guy ain't bull$hiting.
I don't we can do it!

This man speaketh the truth.

I don't mind religion, as long as you keep out of my face and stop trying to stuff your views and beliefs down other people's throat. There's nothing I hate more than evangelical religious types.

So, eventually, some god gave Vietnam permission to catch up?that's very kind of him/her

Well he's got a problem with his own religion. LOL jk


LOL good on you for spotting the ill conceived phrase. It would have been better had it been phrased differently, like "may be" or "might".

I'm a linguist...

I think it was "will" = a certitude.

Off-topic: is it nearly 20:00 hours by you in Australia? something special going on at this time of the evening? the news on TV or something?

Wrong. "Will" denote certainty that it will occur in the future. The point is we don't know whether Vietnam will achieve it or not so "will" not an appropriate word. "may be" or "might" seems to be more appropriate to me.
If you know what's on Australian TV tonight, well nothing much. All crappy movies and shows. Besides, we only have 5 channels so that's even crappier.

Go to this site if you wanna see what's on offer to night. This is the site that I go to to decide what I'm going to do for the rest of the night... except going out of course
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/TV/static/SydneyNight.html?

Anyway, I've just borrowed heaps of videos from my local video library so it doesn't matter. Let's see, there's a Thai horror movie, one about Sea Games in Hanoi, one Vietnamese comedy, one Hong Kong comedy and one about fruits and leisure in the Mekong Delta.

With the current pace and if Viet Nam exerts itself, it will be able to catch up with the RoK in production technology in 10 years, Choi said, adding that he praised the Vietnamese people's intelligence, learning capacity and industriousness.