{"id":3465,"date":"2012-10-02T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2014-07-17T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T21:45:12","slug":"co-branding-lessons-from-kent-and-kyushu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/co-branding-lessons-from-kent-and-kyushu\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-branding: lessons from Kent and Kyushu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last\u00a0week JLGC assisted a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.gov.uk\/business\/our_international_work\/international_partners.aspx\">Kent County Council<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerc.or.jp\/\">Kyushu Economic Research Center<\/a>. The Kyushu researcher, Mr Kabu, visited Kent to learn more about their cross-channel partnership with Nord-Pas de Calais and West Flanders on account of Kyushu&#8217;s own active link to neighbouring Korea. The Kent-France co-branded link up around tourism and economic promotion originated from preparations for the Channel Tunnel rail link and has since become an EU-funded programme with an annual political meeting between Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais. Mr Kabu exchanged views with Kent international affairs staff and the council&#8217;s deputy leader Alex King, who was instrumental in developing the partnership, around the Fukuoka-Busan link. In 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/business\/en\">cross-strait partnership<\/a> between the Japanese and Korean cities, Fukuoka and Busan agreed to develop the Busan-Fukuoka Economic Cooperation Council into a common economic zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last\u00a0week JLGC assisted a visit to Kent County Council from the Kyushu Economic Research Center. The Kyushu researcher, Mr Kabu, visited Kent to learn more about their cross-channel partnership with Nord-Pas de Calais and West Flanders on account of Kyushu&#8217;s own active link to neighbouring Korea. The Kent-France co-branded link up around tourism and economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}