The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)’s International Trade Relations Director General Kim Jong-cheol met Tran Quang Huy, Director of the African, West and South Asian Markets Department at the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) of Vietnam on September 14 at the Lotte Hotel Seoul to attend the 1^st Korea-Vietnam Plus Joint Working Group Meeting and discussed follow-up measures to the two countries' June summit meeting, including critical minerals supply chain center establishment, and exchanged views on future management of the Joint Working Group.