Key points from President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's speech at the opening of the Uzbek-Korean Business Forum in Seoul:

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Korea is a time-tested friend and special strategic partner of Uzbekistan;

Korean business was invited not only to operate in Uzbekistan, but also to invest in the creation of new production facilities, the development of technologies and infrastructure;

The goal is to transform Uzbekistan into one of the main production, technological, and export sites in the region;

In the country, it is planned to implement 120 projects worth more than $4 billion in the field of critical minerals in the coming years;

It was proposed to combine Uzbekistan's natural resources, human capital, and growing market with Korean technologies, engineering expertise, and global brands;

The priority task is not just to export raw materials, but to create full production chains in Uzbekistan, ranging from deep processing to the production of finished high-tech products;

Korean investors were offered projects in the field of transport and urban infrastructure - facilities in New Tashkent, airports, railways, highways, and logistics centers;

Uzbekistan has every opportunity to become a production and export hub for Korean companies in Central Asia. To this end, it was proposed to establish an Uzbek-Korean industrial-technological alliance.