(Unofficial Translation) Your Excellencies, President Biden and other heads of state and government, I wholeheartedly welcome the opening of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate. I’d like to express my respect for President Biden’s leadership. Throughout this year, the first for implemen...

Sep 17, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) I welcome State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi on his visit to Korea. You have come to Korea this year again after your visit last year. I am pleased that closely coordinated senior-level exchanges between our two countries have continued even amid the COVID-19 situation. ...

Sep 15, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 40th Cabinet Meeting. The Chuseok break is just a few days away. During the holiday, I am scheduled to attend the U.N. General Assembly. As the COVID-19 outbreak drags on, we have to greet this coming Chuseok amid difficulties yet again. However, I’d like to see all...

Sep 14, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne and Minister for Defense Peter Dutton, I welcome you to Korea and to Cheong Wa Dae. I am also very glad to meet Australian Ambassador to Korea Catherine Raper and the other delegation members. In the year that marks the 60th anniversary of the est...

Sep 13, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Your Excellency President Khurelsukh, Sain baina uu (Сайн байна уу). How are you? Through videoconferencing, I can see you again – three years after our pleasant meeting in 2018 when you visited Korea as Prime Minister. I congratulate you once more on your election in June when you ...

Sep 10, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans, residents of Gyeongsangnam-do Province and Geoje citizens, It is my fourth visit to Geoje to lend support for our shipbuilding industry’s revival. My first visit here was to celebrate the maiden voyage of a Korea-built ice-breaking LNG carrier, the first of its kind ...

Sep 09, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Today, two outside experts are joining us: Senior Researcher Hong Seong-in of the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade and Managing Director Jeong Seok-ju of the Korea Offshore and Shipbuilding Association. Please give a hand to those joining the discussion of today’s age...

Sep 06, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) It is such a pleasure as well as meaningful to have Speaker Park Byeong-seug and Deputy Speakers Kim Sang-hee and Chung Jin-suk along with the standing committee chairpersons of the 21st National Assembly here at Cheong Wa Dae for the first time. I extend my personal congratulations to th...

Sep 03, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 38th Cabinet Meeting. Today, we will deliberate on and set next year’s budget proposal for submission to the National Assembly. As the last of my Administration, this 604.4 trillion won budget has been drawn up to clearly reflect the role the Government has to assume at t...

Aug 31, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) It is very fortunate that we have been able to safely airlift to Korea the Afghans who helped our country as well as their families. I am proud of the hard work and meritorious service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the military and the other relevant officials who successfully complete...

Aug 30, 2021