Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan met with his Kyrgyz counterpart Thursday to discuss ways to expand trade and critical minerals cooperation between South Korea and the Central Asian country, Kim's office said. Kim and Kyrgyzstan's Minister of Economy and Commerce Bakyt Sydykov agreed on the need to expand bilateral trade by diversifying trade items during their meeting in Seoul, commending that the two countries traded $3.5 billion worth of goods last year, which marks the highest figure since th