PRAGUE — South Korea denounced the claims by the opposition events that the South Korean consortium, which grew to become a most well-liked bidder for the bid to construct a minimum of two nuclear energy models within the Czech Republic in July, had proposed an especially low value for the bid that might waste taxpayers’ cash following the rise of the development price.
Seoul as an alternative claimed that the pricing of the South Korean consortium, led by the state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Energy, was moderately made at an affordable degree. It additionally argued that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s political opponents are attempting to hurt nationwide curiosity with groundless rumors concerning the bid valued a minimum of 24 trillion gained ($18 billion).
“The Czech authorities has chosen the South Korean consortium as the popular bidder not due to its anticompetitive pricing however due to the consortium’s capability to finish the development on time inside funds,” Business Minister Ahn Duk-geun advised reporters at a information convention in Prague Thursday.
Ahn additionally stated that Ivan Jancarek, Czech ambassador to South Korea, earlier said KHNP had advised an affordable bidding value. Additionally, some 200 Czech consultants within the fields of power, legislation and financial system had reviewed the KHNP-led consortium’s bid earlier than Czech authorities introduced a most well-liked bidder in July, in line with Ahn.
“Spreading faux information with out grounds would disrupt the process to finalize Seoul’s contract (with Czech counterparts) and harms the nationwide curiosity,” Ahn stated.
Park Chun-sup, senior presidential secretary for financial affairs, echoed with Ahn, labeling the value undercut claims as “faux information” that stand in the best way of Yoon’s bid to “restore South Korea’s nuclear power ecosystem, create jobs and enhance nationwide financial system.”
On Thursday, 22 lawmakers of the Nationwide Meeting from the primary opposition Democratic Occasion of Korea and the minor opposition Rebuilding Korea Occasion known as for an entire turnaround in Seoul’s bid for nuclear exports.
At a press convention, the lawmakers claimed that Seoul’s nuclear export bid was an “unattainable mission from the start.” Additionally they stated they might not “tolerate the state of affairs at which a gargantuan quantity of taxpayers’ cash might be wasted,” following a projected surge within the development price that might make the undertaking nearly unprofitable.