South Korea and Uzbekistan held a business forum in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss ways to expand bilateral economic and corporate cooperation,Yonhap news agency reported.

The forum, jointly hosted by the two government and state-run trade promotion agencies, was attended by about 200 businesspeople and high-ranking government officials of the two countries, including Deputy Prime Minister Choi Kyung-hwan and his Uzbek counterpart, Rustam Azimov.