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The latest result of the close ties between Kinshasa and Seoul was revealed on 8 September by Générose Lushiku, Congo-Kinshasa's Minister of Urbanism and Habitat, who announced that South Korea's Berea International had won a US$225 million contract to build 1.2 mn. units of social housing and was due to begin construction before the end of the year. The South Koreans, though, have even bigger ambitions in Congo. The huge dam planned at the Inga III complex, which could produce 4,320 megawatts of power from the Congo River, is the main attraction....

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Générose Lushiku, Chinese, Indian, Jaynet Kabila, Joseph Kabila, Ban Ki-moon, Emile Bongeli, Kim Eun-seok, Han Seung-soo, Adolphe Muzito, Park Young, Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi, North Korean, Laurent Désiré Kabila, Kwon Jin-bong, Laurent Muzangisa, Gervais Ntirumenyerwa,, Grand Hotel de Kinshasa

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