Ulsan Mayor Kim Gi-Hyeon on Tuesday signed a Sister City agreement with Chennai Mayor Saidai Duraisamy in the presence of Corporation Commissioner D. Karthikeyan.
Following the signing of the agreement, Corporation officials are likely to visit South Korea to study various aspects of local administration, civic issues and infrastructure development.
Cooperation with South Korea is expected to be strengthened in the city. With automobile companies, such as Hyundai contributing to the growth and development of the city, the sister city agreement is likely to offer more opportunities for industrial development in the suburbs.
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Hyundai operates an automobile assembly plant in Ulsan. The city is famous for its parks, beaches, football stadium, automobile industry, shipping and tourism.
Most of the aspects associated with Ulsan have also been important in the Chennai Metropolitan Area. Chennai already has a sister city tie-up with Chonqing in China, Volgograd in Russia, San Antonio in Texas, US and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The areas likely to be identified for mutual cooperation between the sister cities and Chennai include automobile technology, shipping, eco-restoration of rivers, developing a system of recording property rights, linkages between tourism and preservation of heritage buildings, solid waste management and technology for road construction.