(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans and citizens of Ulsan, Since far-off prehistoric times, the sea has been an integral part of life for this region. During the Three Kingdoms period, Ulsan served as a gateway for trade ships coming and going. From the 1970s when Korea’s first maritime industrial comp...

May 06, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Even though disease control authorities and respective ministries and agencies have been working hard, a special meeting to check epidemic prevention and control has been convened again in just three weeks. It aims to further enhance government-wide response levels regarding anti-epidemic me...

May 03, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Good afternoon, everyone. The ceremony to mark completion of the Gwangju Global Motors plant is finally being held today. Looking back at the time and effort spent on this project so far, the citizens of Gwangju must truly be overwhelmed and bursting with pride. This finished vehicle ass...

Apr 29, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 18th Cabinet Meeting. The advance GDP estimate for the first quarter released today by the Bank of Korea shows that our economy in the first three months of this year has already surpassed its pre-COVID-19 state. This quarterly growth rate beats the expectations of inter...

Apr 27, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Today, we have three outside experts from the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning joining us to discuss items on the agenda – Commission Chairman Cho Dae-yeop, the head of its Support Group for Administrative Tasks Yun Tae-beom and the head of its Research Group for Future Polic...

Apr 26, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Honorable President Biden, Your Excellencies, This evening, on Earth Day, the Korean people turned their lights off for ten minutes and heeded the whispers of the earth. I hope that the warm support of Koreans will reach out to all the countries that are in the fight against climate cha...

Apr 22, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Today, two outside experts – Vice President Kang Yong-seong of the Korea Software Industry Association and President Moon Yong-sik of the National Information Society Agency – are joining us to discuss items on the agenda. Please welcome them with a round of applause. Newly appoi...

Apr 19, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Good afternoon, everyone. We have to make our economy recover and take off at the same time. Today’s expanded meeting with economy-related minsters has been arranged with a view to further reinforcing cooperation among businesses as well as between businesses and the Government to ...

Apr 15, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 16th Cabinet Meeting. The Government should attend to state affairs unwaveringly with an attitude of assuming full responsibility for the people. There must not be even the slightest moment of negligence with regard to epidemic prevention and control, the economy, people&...

Apr 13, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) This special meeting on epidemic prevention and control has been urgently convened to closely assess the current state of vaccine procurement, inoculations and disease fighting measures as well as to enhance the level of government-wide responses. The recent spread of COVID-19 around the ...

Apr 12, 2021