– On implementation plan concerning exhibition, marine leisure, dairy farming, veterinary medicine, horticulture, forestry businesses and cooperation in education 

– The provincial office will promote follow-up management of existing sisterhood relationships based on “selection and concentration” and “a package deal method” as in the case with Queensland. 

The provincial office finalized the 2005-2006 cooperation plan involving the State of Queensland of Australia, one of its sister provinces. On July 21, Mr. Lee Jae-yool, the investment promotion officer of the provincial office, and Mr. Matthew Kang, Trade Commissioner of the Queensland Government Trade and Investment Office (QGTIO) – Korea, met in a meeting room of the provincial office and finalized the plan for ways of mutual cooperation and substantiation of the agreements concerning the sisterhood relationship made by and between the two provinces in 1997. At the meeting, the two signed the Action Plan for 2005-2006 Gyeonggi-Queensland Sisterhood State Agreement. 

The action plan contains agreement on mutual exchange and cooperation in a total of seven additional areas, such as exhibition, marine leisure, dairy farming, veterinary medicine, horticulture, forestry businesses and cooperation in education in the second half of 2005 and 2006. So far, the mutual exchange and cooperation was confined to public officials and agriculture. 

As part of the agreement, two researchers of the Gyeonggi Forest Environment Research Station will visit Queensland this year to discuss ways of joint research, and working-level officials of Queensland in charge of agriculture and food processing will visit the province. 

The agreement has been the third one made by the provincial office in consideration of changes in relevant international conditions. 

Mr. Matthew Kang of QGTIO – Korea said, “It is important to do follow-up management of a sisterhood relation based on a concrete action plan as the one signed by us this time. A sisterhood relation can be maintained effectively through the process of updating and supplementation, with changes in surrounding conditions considered.” 

Mr. Lee Jae-yool of the provincial office said, “Concerning our sisterhood relations made with fifteen provinces in twelve countries, we plan to carry out a comprehensive check and set up future courses of actions in an effort to be engaged in international exchanges with the focus on “selection and concentration” and “a package deal method” as in the case with Queensland.”