South Korea has expressed its increased interest in the proposed Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project. According to a report by The Sun Daily, the Republic has engaged in talks with Malaysia on the matter.
Recently, South Korean Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kang Hoin met with Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai to discuss several matters, including the KL-SG HSR project.
“Yes, we certainly discussed the project. Liow welcomed South Korean participation,” said Kang. However, it remains unknown who will win the bid to build the 350 km line that starts in Bandar Malaysia in Sungai Besi, and ends in Jurong East, Singapore.
“You guess. It is a long way to go,” commented Kang. South Korea expressed its intent to bid for the project since last year. On a separate matter, the country also said it is willing to share its expertise on its metropolitan intelligent transport system (ITS) with Malaysia to further improve the transport and traffic system here.
A number of countries are lobbying for involvement in the HSR, including Japan, France, Germany, South Korea and China, but previous reports have indicated that China is in the lead to win the bid for the project. The HSR is expected to be completed by 2022, with the memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate the project expected to be signed in July by Malaysia and Singapore.
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Isn’t your ruler sent an ambassador “Suami Balu” to India, so what has he been doing there all these years?
give it to the japs, their system is safest
Korean boys can go dancing and wear make up. The job is going to the Chinese, everybody knows this.
Gip local to do better instead worship foreign overlords…oh wai
yes, everyone knows and it’s obvious china will get it. the rest can go dancing. all these talks are just show to entertain.
No la. I’m sure China will get it. They already bought Bandar Malaysia and EDRA energy. So it is payback time.
Yes, quid pro quo.
Gip to Martians, cuz bashers says humans dunno how to make trains
AS ABOVE
more smoke..before the we-know-who-wins..
File pic could be a bit more relevant. That’s a Hitachi, not KTX.
Would costs less if Firefly or Malindo do flew ATRs from Sungai Besi to all the cities along the HSRs. Let’s wait for Elon Musks Hyperloop before building anymore train systems
Huh Korea use TGV system what…
Korea better then fake famous china!!!
Everybody thought they know who will wins, but then Najib trolls everyone and gips the job to French TGV :)