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Prime Minister visits Thailand for Asia-Pacific Water S...
May 21, 2013
Prime Minister Chung Hongwon held a series of meetings with his Thai, Myanmarese, and Bangladeshi counterparts during a visit to Thailand for the Asia-Pacific Water Summit. Prime Minister Chung Hongwon addresses at the Asia-Pacific Water Summit held in Chiang Mai, northern T...

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Korea gains permanent observer status on Arctic Council
May 21, 2013
Korea has gained permanent observer status on the Arctic Council, allowing Seoul to secure a bridgehead in the increasingly influential forum that sets the rules for development of the polar region. At the eighth council meeting in Kiruna in northern Sweden on May 15, its eight m...

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President pays respects to democracy activists on May 1...
May 20, 2013
President Park Geun-hye said that the whole nation needs to cooperate to achieve “dynamic advancement of the country.” President Park Geun-hye examines a tomb at the May 18th National Cemetery in Gwangju on May 18 (photo: Cheong Wa Dae).“The ultimate goal of democracy is to ...

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President visits May 18th National Cemetery
May 19, 2013
President Park Geun-hye lays a wreath at the May 18th National Cemetery in Gwangju, Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province), on May 18 (photo: Cheong Wa Dae).

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President vows to create jobs by mixing industries, cul...
May 16, 2013
President Park Geun-hye gave shape to her creative economy initiative, one of the main administrative visions of the government. “The government will make new added value and generate more jobs by combining science and ICT and mixing industries and culture with human creativity a...

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President Park’s U.S. trip upgrades Korea-U.S. economic...
May 16, 2013
Korea and the United States are expected to upgrade bilateral economic cooperation thanks to President Park Geun-hye’s U.S. trip earlier this May. President Park Geun-hye (second from right) is welcomed by U.S. business leaders at a lunch meeting held by the American Chamber...

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Korea and U.S. to cooperate in energy development
May 13, 2013
Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate on developing clean and alternative energy technologies. On the sidelines of Korean President Park Geun-hye’s visit to the United States and the summit between Park and U.S. President Barack Obama, Minister of Trade, Industry a...

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President Park’s U.S. trip brings fruitful results
May 13, 2013
President Park Geun-hye’s U.S. trip upgraded the Korea-U.S. alliance to a global partnership. The six-day trip, her first official overseas visit since her inauguration, brought a fruitful outcome in many ways. The visit strengthened the Seoul-Washington alliance and set a future...

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President discusses creative economy with IT leaders
May 10, 2013
President Park Geun-hye shared opinions with IT experts from both the United States and Korea on her creative economy initiative. President Park Geun-hye (center) attends the Leaders’ Meeting for Creative Economy in at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on May 9 (LA tim...

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LA links Korean culture to U.S.: President
May 10, 2013
President Park Geun-hye called Korea Town in Los Angeles “the largest base camp for Korea to enter the world,” stressing the role of Korean residents in the city to spread Korean culture to the United States. President Park Geun-hye (second from left) makes a toast with memb...