South Korea offers specialised training for Lapsset staff

Nairobi; Kenya: South Korea has offered scholarships to staff working on Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor projects. The two-month specialised training will be run in Seoul beginning this month, with courses that include field assignments in different parts of Korea.

They include design, construction and management of high-value infrastructure projects and master planning of new cities. The offer was made to the Lapsset Corridor Development Authority Chief Executive, Mr Silvester Kasuku, in a meeting with South Korea’s Minister for Infrastructure, Land and Transport Suh Seoung-Hwan, Vice Minister Kyung-Sik Kim and Director General of International Cooperation, Wan-Jung Kim. This was on the sidelines of the ongoing Global Infrastructure Cooperation Conference in Seoul.