# Bill Gates, South Korea expand global health partnership
Published: 2022-08-16
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By Joori Roh and Joyce Lee

SEOUL (Reuters) – [South](https://entrepreneurtribune.com/south-african-president-ramaphosa-to-make-state-visit-to-uk/) Korea agreed on Tuesday to expand its global [health](https://entrepreneurtribune.com/spanish-regions-reintroduce-mask-wearing-in-medical-centres-amid-flu-spike/) partnership with the foundation set up by Microsoft Corp co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.

The deal came after Gates arrived in South [Korea](https://entrepreneurtribune.com/north-korea-fires-artillery-into-sea-as-south-korea-and-u-s-pledge-cooperation/) late on Monday, calling for Seoul to play a bigger role in global health and to increase aid.

The agreement includes strengthening private and public sector cooperation between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and South Korea in projects such as a global health research fund, and stepping up cooperation with health organisations including CEPI, South Korea’s foreign and health ministries said in a statement.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) works with public, private, philanthropic and civil society organisations to develop vaccines against future epidemics.

[South](https://entrepreneurtribune.com/south-african-president-ramaphosa-to-make-state-visit-to-uk/) Korea will also help to train 370 people from lower-income countries in vaccine production this year, which will be expanded to 2,000 people per year starting 2026, the ministries said.

“This is a crisis moment for global health. This is also a fantastic time for our foundation to strengthen partnership with Korea, providing great ideas for new tools and more resources to help those in need,” Gates said in a speech at the National Assembly earlier on Tuesday.

While meeting with South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo and other lawmakers, Gates called for increasing funding for groups that help improve [health](https://entrepreneurtribune.com/spanish-regions-reintroduce-mask-wearing-in-medical-centres-amid-flu-spike/) conditions in poor countries and prevent pandemics, and asked if South Korea would be able to scale up its international aid to 0.3% of GDP.

Gates then met President Yoon Suk-yeol, who said the South Korean government wanted a cooperative relationship with Gates’ foundation to foster high-quality bio-health technologies.

Gates also met with leaders at SK Bioscience which received $10 million in funding from CEPI to develop its COVID-19 vaccine.

(This story has been refiled to reflect the National Assembly’s official correction of figure of aid to 0.3% of GDP, not 1.3%, in paragraph 7)

(Reporting by Joori Roh and Joyce Lee, Additional reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Mark Potter)


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