{"id":261865,"date":"2025-12-17T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/dti-chief-upbeat-on-new-investors-from-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:55:37","slug":"dti-chief-upbeat-on-new-investors-from-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=261865","title":{"rendered":"DTI Chief Upbeat On New Investors From South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job creation in the Philippines is expected to get a boost as additional businesses have indicated interest in starting operations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Trade and Industry Secretary Cristina Roque told journalists Monday night she will be in South Korea from Dec. 17-19 to meet four investors, whom she declined to identify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to get also into retail sector to have more jobs,\u201d she said without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the retail sector, Roque said the businesses of the four entities, whose officials she is scheduled to meet this week, are also into food business.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed optimism that these interests will materialize to provide balanced employment, not just in manufacturing sector, for Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Board of Investments, said it has approved around 261 projects worth PHP816.81 billion as of the end of November this year, and 10 more big-ticket items are being assessed. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential investments are expected to generate more employment opportunities for Filipinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":261866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-today"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"6502":"job creation is key \ud83d\udcbc\r","6503":"good sign for workers \ud83d\udcbc\ud83d\ude0a\r","6504":"investment like this helps economy\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}