HCM City (VNA), Nov. 30 -- The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will select Korean consultants to conduct feasibility study for the second phase of Metro Line No. 5 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The agency will complete a report and hand over it to the HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) at the end of 2021 in accordance with an agreement recently signed between the two sides.

The project is the follow-up of another project, also funded by KOICA aiming to provide technical assistance to the pre-feasibility and feasibility studies of the second phase of Metro Line No. 5.

The 23.39-km metro line will run along Hoang Van Thu, Phan Dang Luu, Bach Dang, and Dien Bien Phu streets and be connected to future metro lines...