Korea Business Group is a non-political and non-partisan business consultancy focused on facilitating successful business in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) for foreign companies. It was officially launched in Beijing in March 2002 after 3 years of preparatory work by the KBC team, during which the organisation was known as Foreign Business Development Associates (FBDA). It was later renamed Korea Business Consultants, which it operated as for several years.
Roger Barrett, Managing Director
A graduate of RMA Sandhurst, Mr. Barrett previously worked for Hong Kong Telecom as Sales Director, then Business Development Director. He made his first trip to Pyongyang in January 1994 for Hong Kong Telecom as a telecommunications industry representative to help plan the set up of the Rajin-Sonbong Economic & Trade Zone. After several visits to Pyongyang for Hong Kong Telecom, he became familiar with Korean culture and regular visits and success on more projects since then, lead to the interest in setting up a business to help develop business between Korea, Asia, Europe and the world.
Mr. Barrett lived 5 years in Hong Kong and 2 years in Singapore (working for Pacific Century, in their early stage of business development). He first worked in China in 1983, and managed the set up of Exhibitions and Trade fairs in China in the 1980s - experience which enables him to compare the economic reforms and positive changes he sees taking place in the DPRK with what he experienced in China in the 1980s and in Vietnam in the 1990s and since.
Roger is also Deputy Managing Director of Kumsan Joint Venture Company, which was formed in 1998 to develop a range of gold mining opportunities in the DPRK. This Pyongyang based and registered JV is 50% owned by the Hungsong Economic Group - a mining, manufacturing and trading group from Pyongyang - and 50% by a group of Singapore led investors using Australian mining plant and technology.
A graduate of RMA Sandhurst, Mr. Barrett previously worked for Hong Kong Telecom as Sales Director, then Business Development Director. He made his first trip to Pyongyang in January 1994 for Hong Kong Telecom as a telecommunications industry representative to help plan the set up of the Rajin-Sonbong Economic & Trade Zone. After several visits to Pyongyang for Hong Kong Telecom, he became familiar with Korean culture and regular visits and success on more projects since then, lead to the interest in setting up a business to help develop business between Korea, Asia, Europe and the world.
Mr. Barrett lived 5 years in Hong Kong and 2 years in Singapore (working for Pacific Century, in their early stage of business development). He first worked in China in 1983, and managed the set up of Exhibitions and Trade fairs in China in the 1980s - experience which enables him to compare the economic reforms and positive changes he sees taking place in the DPRK with what he experienced in China in the 1980s and in Vietnam in the 1990s and since.
Roger is also Deputy Managing Director of Kumsan Joint Venture Company, which was formed in 1998 to develop a range of gold mining opportunities in the DPRK. This Pyongyang based and registered JV is 50% owned by the Hungsong Economic Group - a mining, manufacturing and trading group from Pyongyang - and 50% by a group of Singapore led investors using Australian mining plant and technology.
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