What made SK C&C interested in Central Asian countries?
SK C&C started paying attention to Central Asian region around 2003. The region is less developed in IT service when compared to Europe, East Asia and the Americas, but went through a swift economic development lately. SK C&C decided to contribute to the region’s industrial development and public service enhancement at the same time. The answer was postal service modernization in the region. Q: How did the government assist SK C&C’s advancement into central Asia? A: The government has helped a lot when SK C&C firstly conducted feasibility studies on postal service modernization of Kazakhstan. It also landed hands for SK C&C and Azerbaijan government to agree to build ITS system in Azerbaijan. Before the agreement was reached, Korea’s Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs helped SK to promote its achievement in constructing state-of-the-art transportation system in Seoul and Jeju. In April this year, the transportation ministries of the two countries concluded an MOU on ITS c