HCMC – The Korea Testing Laboratory, or KTL, is planning to enter Vietnam to further facilitate trade between the two countries as the rapid growth of trade between Vietnam and South Korea results in high demands for testing, a KTL executive said.
Jung-sup Kim, director general for the industry support division of KTL, told a seminar in HCMC on Tuesday that the rising exchange of commodities between the two countries prompted KTL to come to Vietnam to serve the big testing demand.
Kim told the seminar it co-held with Vietnam’s Quality Assurance and Testing Center 3, or Quatest 3, that testing for electrical, electronic and medical devices as well as toys was on the rise.
Therefore, “it is necessary for the industries to have testing regarding quality and safety in addition to mandatory regulations relating to the conformity assessment of the governments for the production and trading of these products,” he said.
Korean experts at the seminar introduced local businesses to its compulsory certification schemes for electronic products, medical devices and the Energy Efficiency Labeling Program.
KTL, under the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy, provides testing, certification, quality certification services and R&D for product safety, reliability, performance and standards.
In addition, the founding member of the Asian Network Forum (ANF) is working with Quatest 3 to help the latter upgrade itself to international standard.
Hoang Lam, deputy director of Quatest 3, told the seminar that collaboration with KTL would make his agency’s testing results more widely recognized.
“We are to join the ANF in November, and at the time, the products tested by our laboratory will soon be recognized be regional laboratories,” Lam said.
