홍남기 "글로벌플랜트 펀드, 400억불 수주효과…추경반영 검토"<br /><br />The South Korean government has come up with plans to help boost the sagging domestic economy.<br />Kim Da-mi outlines for us the new measures... which include a two-point-six billion dollar fund to help builders expand overseas and easing some regulations on new industries. <br /> As part of efforts to revitalize the country's falling exports, the South Korean government will create a global plant, construction and smart city fund. <br />At a meeting of economy-related ministers on Wednesday, the country's Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki introduced the project worth some 2-point-6 billion dollars,... to help construction companies expand overseas.<br /> For the first phase of the fund,... worth about one-point-three billion dollars... the government will contribute one-hundred-30 million dollars,... while ten public companies will invest almost four-hundred million.<br />Hong said his ministry will review creating part of the fund from the supplementary budget proposal.<br />"The global plant fund will bring around 40-billion dollars worth of overseas orders and pave the way for South Korean companies to join about 80 investment and developing projects." <br /> The government also announced it will ease 31 regulations on new industries and technologies.<br />That includes enabling sales of health supplements at large supermarkets and department stores,... and getting rid of the registration process required for businesses to sell such supplements. <br /> In addition, the government plans to develop the nuclear decommissioning industry.<br />The trade ministry says it will nurture know-how and technology from the country's atomic energy phase-out plan, and aim to grab ten percent of the world's 480 billion dollar nuclear decommissioning market by 2035.<br />Kim Da-mi, Arirang News. <br />
