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Yoo Chang-Moo, the president of KTNET, was selected to be chairman of the Pan Asia e-commerce Alliance (PAA) during the organizations seventeenth conference in Taipei Nov. 15-19.
PAAs goal is to accelerate regional cooperation for e-trade. It was established in May 2000 with a commitment to take concrete and practical measures for standardization and nation-to-nation linkage. Its nine Asian members include China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and others.
Yoos selection was preceded by the choice of KTNET Executive Director Han Hak-hee for PAA working group chairman.
In other business at the Taipei conference, e-trade-related business representatives deliberated opportunities to expand services and explored ideas on broadening support for e-trade among member countries. The business leaders also participated in in-depth discussion of paperless trade projects involving APEC and ASEM.
Making this topic more relevant, representatives of ASEM members Germany, France and the United Kingdom attended the conference and discussed ways to accelerate the alliance between PAA and European organizations as part of global e-trade cooperation.
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